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eigenspacetoday at 4:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

It is a molten salt reactor, just not a molten salt thorium reactor.


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p1mrxtoday at 5:12 PM

Sodium (without chlorine or similar) is a metal, not a salt.

They plan to use molten salt for energy storage, but the reactor itself is liquid metal cooled.

Danoxtoday at 5:21 PM

Sad for Meta it will be obsolete by the time it’s theoreticallyput online which I doubt will ever happen.