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.”

  • athos77@kbin.social
    232·
    11 months ago

    Is that like the whole “magic occurs here” thing that I also never quite got?

    • lntlOP
      133·
      11 months ago

      Sounds like you get it now ;)