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Friday, October 16, 2020

New Design Molten Salt Reactor Is Cheaper To Run, Consumes Nuclear Waste

New Design Molten Salt Reactor Is Cheaper To Run, Consumes Nuclear Waste: Molten salt reactors are not new. The defining work was done on them at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee in the 1950s through the 1970s. It was a time of creativity in reactor design, particularly under Alvin Weinberg, the lab's gifted and legendary director.

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