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Physicist dismisses molten salt nuclear reactors as a "waste of time"
Energi Media video 59,515 views Oct 11, 2021.
- 03:15 Only two MSRs ever been built, and they are unreliable. The MSRE at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ran only 4 years, and had to shut down 225 times.
- 04:15 The reprocessing technology (pyroprocessing) can be easily used to make nuclear weapons from plutonium. The reprocessed plutonium is not pure enough for weapons, but that doesn't matter. The last 10% of the work can be done by anybody anywhere.
- 04:55 Pyroprocessing has been tried in the United States, and the track record is "abysmal". The "EBR reactor" was a failure.
- 06:05 It is unlikely that nuclear engineers will be able to overcome "these challenges". It will take "hundreds of millions of dollars" and many more years to prove a design will withstand earthquakes and fires.
Terrapower claims "Refueling without the need for ongoing enrichment or reprocessing facilities effectively eliminates weapons proliferation risks." https://www.terrapower.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/TP_2023_MCFR_Technology-0216.pdf This is a sales brochure. We need a better explanation of the MCFR fuel cycle, including reprocessing. David MacQuigg (talk) 05:45, 6 November 2023 (CST)