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Me. Give me that plutonium green power please.
Not super into the plutonium kind. Would prefer one of those modular liquid salt deals the conservatives were pushing last election... but less moronic. See now that I think on how these clowns can't care for a cat maybe we shouldn't get a nuclear plant. Not because nuclear is bad.
Which type of reactor is that?
I know there one that will have a salt melt and encapsulate the nuclear rods in case of an overload event, but that's a containment measure and would still need a radioactive element such as plutonium for the process to work.
They were barge built, towed thorium salt nuclear reactors that would be build in a shipyard and towed to site. Most designs for thorium reactor use uranium doping to kick off the reactor after wich its self feeding. It comes with a salt plug in the botton of the reactor that will allow the fuel to drain out of the reactor core if there is a case of overheating. The safety bonus to these things is they have many passive means of self-moderation and self-snuffing if something isnt right. Im not a fan of on the water with a reactor. The chances that maintenance will get ignored is not insignificant. The terms of the deal with the company also both sucked and introduced extra risk.