• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think it’s molten salt reactors. I learned it as small modular reactors (SMR) which naturally cooled to safe temperatures if they lost power and water.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, but we shouldn’t be using only one type of nuclear reactor anyway – we can deploy the SMR design for more populated areas where safety is paramount, and then run breeder reactors in uninhabited areas to convert the SMR waste back into fuel.