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Read Replies (1) | Respond to The micro molten salt nuclear reactor is almost ready. It's been spun off into a private company now.Brigham Young University (BYU) nuclear engineer, Matthew Memmott heads up a team that has designed a nuclear reactor with a core that is a mere 1.2 by 2.1 metres (4 by 7 feet). The reactor and all the equipment needed to run it fit on a 12-metre (40-foot) truck flatbed. At that size, the one-truck reactor can power 1,000 homes. Compare this to the standard nuclear reactors used in the United States today with cores measuring 9.1 square metres (900 square feet) and housed in massive concrete containment buildings. The reason for the latter is to ensure no radiation escapes into the surrounding environment. But the BYU team’s reactor doesn’t need that kind of containment. Instead, the molten salt absorbs all the radioactivity produced with the ability to harvest the captured elements such as molybdenum-99, cobalt-60, gold, platinum, neodymium and others for resale. In other words, no nuclear waste. Another benefit is that hydrogen and oxygen produced during the nuclear reaction can also be harvested from the salt. This means the cost of operations can be offset through the resale of these valuable elements and hydrogen can be a clean-fuel alternative to replace gasoline. Once harvested, the molten salt becomes clean and completely reusable. This micro-molten salt reactor will not have a meltdown. The radioactive byproducts produced by the nuclear reaction dissolve in the molten salt rather than being absorbed by conventional fuel rods. The molten salt’s extremely high melting point of 550 Celsius (1,022 Fahrenheit) makes it an ideal medium to absorb the heat from these byproducts with the temperature of the salt rapidly falling and causing crystallization. This traps the radioactive elements to make them easy to harvest. https://www.21stcentech.com/micro-molten-salt-nuclear-reactor-meltdown-works/ The spin off company. https://alphatechresearchcorp.com/info/affordable-clean-energy.php
