Not really “new” technology... molten salt/thorium reactor theory has been around for decades. They also have “walk-away” safety. If all operators simply walked away a “plug” melts and all the radioactive material simply drains into an underground chamber and cools to become a non-radioactive blob of slag. Rickover opted for enriched uranium instead of the molten salt technology because you can’t make weapons of molten salt.
” Rickover opted for enriched uranium instead of the molten salt technology because you can’t make weapons of molten salt.”
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