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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Water is last year’s news. Helium is the new water now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hot salt is where it's at

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are there any molten salt reactor designs that do not use water as a coolant?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Molten salt reactors use salt as the coolant

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Maybe the primary coolant but all the designs i've seen so far use water for the secondary coolant / working fluid.