Comments on: When digital entrepreneurs go nuclear, literally http://gigaom.com/2012/06/04/when-digital-entrepreneurs-go-nuclear-literally/ Tue, 21 May 2013 22:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: George Lerner http://gigaom.com/2012/06/04/when-digital-entrepreneurs-go-nuclear-literally/#comment-848028 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:45:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=528359#comment-848028 Although there is a lot of engineering to be done, the molten salt reactor technology has been demonstrated, materials identified that work (newer materials would need to be tested, that should work even better), basic procedures for much of the WAMSR operation were shown to work. The USA operated a molten salt reactor for 5 years.

Liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) is a better known molten salt reactor, most of the science and engineering will be comparable in WAMSR. See http://liquidfluoridethoriumreactor.glerner.com/ or

What Is A LFTR, and How Can A Reactor Be So Safe?

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