It will be rather intensely radioactive. A person cannot approach it. A cleanup like this would have be done robotically. If the spill is contained in the can then the whole can is designed to be sealed and shipped back…
No we are not in production. Yes we do need funding but this is not on a kickstarter scale though. This will require hundreds of millions of dollars to become real so we do need to involve a large corporation or some…
The design choices have been specifically made to allow for a short development cycle and rapid deployment. There is no need to enrich thorium as virtually all thorium in the world is Th232.
The challenge with metallurgy for MSRE was two fold. First was the neutron interaction with nickle forming helium that migrated to the grain boundaries. We avoid this problem altogether by having a single fluid design…
The primary loop (that contains all the fuel salt and fission products) is inside a can so if we get a leak in the primary loop the salt will be contained inside the can. The can drains to the fuel dump tank (FDT). Both…
The design has two passive cooling systems. The first uses natural circulation through the heat exchangers to the normal primary cold sink. The second uses radiative heat to the membrane to a pond intended specifically…
The high temperature limits the materials we can choose from. We've elected to stick with known materials (stainless steel) for the first generation to keep our schedule short. As someone noted below highly corrosive…
We expect to be around 1/8th the capital cost for the reactor itself. We plan to use off-the-shelf turbines&generators marketed for coal so those costs are pretty well known. You still have to add in the switch yard and…
Yes it is based on their work. MSRE was a successful experiment that gathered a lot of data. MSBR and DMSR were follow paper designs based on MSRE. We've combined elements of each. A major difference though is that we…
It will be rather intensely radioactive. A person cannot approach it. A cleanup like this would have be done robotically. If the spill is contained in the can then the whole can is designed to be sealed and shipped back…
No we are not in production. Yes we do need funding but this is not on a kickstarter scale though. This will require hundreds of millions of dollars to become real so we do need to involve a large corporation or some…
The design choices have been specifically made to allow for a short development cycle and rapid deployment. There is no need to enrich thorium as virtually all thorium in the world is Th232.
The challenge with metallurgy for MSRE was two fold. First was the neutron interaction with nickle forming helium that migrated to the grain boundaries. We avoid this problem altogether by having a single fluid design…
The primary loop (that contains all the fuel salt and fission products) is inside a can so if we get a leak in the primary loop the salt will be contained inside the can. The can drains to the fuel dump tank (FDT). Both…
The design has two passive cooling systems. The first uses natural circulation through the heat exchangers to the normal primary cold sink. The second uses radiative heat to the membrane to a pond intended specifically…
The high temperature limits the materials we can choose from. We've elected to stick with known materials (stainless steel) for the first generation to keep our schedule short. As someone noted below highly corrosive…
We expect to be around 1/8th the capital cost for the reactor itself. We plan to use off-the-shelf turbines&generators marketed for coal so those costs are pretty well known. You still have to add in the switch yard and…
Yes it is based on their work. MSRE was a successful experiment that gathered a lot of data. MSBR and DMSR were follow paper designs based on MSRE. We've combined elements of each. A major difference though is that we…