Liquid salt is a bad idea for fissioin reactors IMHO. When it cools it becomes a solid and needs some heating to bring it back to a liquid. In general it does not afford good corrosion protection to reactor containment materials—like metal alloys---and is a difficult waste product to manage, assuming fission products remain associated/entrained. Reactor maintenance is nearly impossible. It’s very costly compared to a reactor with water as its coolant and neutron moderator.
Bob Cook ------------------------------------ From: JonesBeene<mailto:jone...@pacbell.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 6:43 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com> Subject: RE: [Vo]:Thorium breeding now? Robin, On first glance, one obvious thermodynamic problem is steam – in that every fission fragment capable of knocking off a neutron is also able to boil off several hundred million molecules of heavy water in the process of thermalizing. Consequently maintaining a liquid state with uniformly dissolved salt becomes impossible even under high pressure.. A molten salt would be feasible but not a dissolved salt in the liquid state. * Please see http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Thorium_breeder_in_solution.html Regards, Robin van Spaandonk
