The US wants to build a different kind of nuclear reactor from a decades-old concept that could power ships and other off-the-grid locations
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Most nuclear reactors use water as a coolant. Molten salt reactors use salts with higher boiling points. Kairos Power will build the US's first in decades.

One study suggested that the reactors could produce more nuclear waste than current systems and that they “will use highly corrosive and pyrophoric fuels and coolants that, following irradiation, will become highly radioactive.”

    • Tak@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You can’t turn the sun on. IIRC there was some research done that the US can run itself for 100 year off just the nuclear waste it already has. The radioactive material already exists, it’s already decaying, and it will keep decaying so it might as well be used to make power.