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Can molton salt reactors produce electricity safely?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Using Molten Salt to Cool Your Reactor?

Chemists have a specific definition of salt, chloride is one example. So you talk n o like a salt that uses florine and then melting it, and then using that like bathing the uranium rods in that liquid. You don't even have to wrap your rods in it. You can dissolve the fuel itself into the salt. It's much more efficient, actually, for energy generation. And gives you other options, like creating hydrogen fuel as a sort of chemical battery to store all this energy.

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