Is this ready for Commercially ready for Prime time?
And is anything with molten sodium in a harsh corrosive marine water environment, a good idea?
(I know it would supposedly be a closed loop system)
RE: “thorium-fueled Molten-Salt generation plant.”
There are more “salts” than common table salt which contains sodium as a component. Mostly research reactors used “metallic” sodium as the primary loop coolant-—also found in hollow exhaust valves for some engines-—valued for enhanced heat conduction.
The salt in molten salt reactors is often a mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride with a uranium compound dissolved as the fuel component.