Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR)

Now that is absolutely beautiful thinking! That all by itself should be worth a Nobel Prize to whoever came up with the concept!

And in this case, the prize would actually mean something.

This is good for the planet, good for people, and great for energy utilization in ways we had not previously dreamed of. It opens so many doors, one cannot name them all, and none seem to have hairy monsters hiding behind the door.

Yes, this would be great if there's no long term harmful waste like with the spent rods of today with the 50000 year half-life. The spent rods of today are a time bomb waiting to happen. And, no one seems to be worried about it. I guess we just change carbon pollution for nuclear pollution.

Have some fun today,

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Molten Salt Reactors can use spent rods from nuclear reactors, as it is mentioned after the link. So the IMSR could be a solution to that time bomb.

"Uranium enriched to less than 5% is currently intended to fuel the IMSR; however, with future iterations of IMSR technology, the IMSR is very capable of using a diverse array of fuel forms, including thorium-based fuels and spent nuclear fuels from existing nuclear fleets."

Any nuclear fuel can be recycled. France, England and Japan have had recycling programs for decades. If it weren't for Jimmy Carter, we would too. The only reason we don't now is NIMBY.

I hate that guy. He can't tell his back yard, from the whole entire country. Greedy bastage.

He had a good heart, but it was committed to the liquid metal fast breeder program and recycled LWR fuel would have made LMFBR less economically viable.

Not JC, I merely tolerate him. I was talking about that NIMBY guy.

If I understand correctly, it can also use as fuel the many tons of depleted uranium that we have after the large weapons enrichment program.