For years I have read up on molten-salt reactors. They have the promise to revolutionize the power industry while running off thorium, a nearly limitless radioactive byproduct of mining. They can't melt down and they product a fraction of the nuclear waste as current reactors. We didn't go with this design originally in the 60' most because nuclear grade weapons materials can't be bred in these reactors. I am glad to see movement back to this idea. But as always the US is lagging behind in such technologies that will disrupt the fossil fuel industry.
http://www.businessinsider.com/thorium-molten-salt-reactors-sorensen-lftr-2017-2?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=auddev-test362
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