Walk away safe as an operational reactor!

Fluorine is very corrosive unless intelligently managed by experienced industrial chemists, not Nuclear physicists totally ignorant of this completely foreign to them, unpressurised process.

Florine just does not react with the graphite core at the heart of MSR. The addition of adequate beryllium to the molten medium prevents most corrosion to the metal parts, and because it's unpressurised but rather operates at, site normal, atmospheric pressures!

Any crack that allows leakage exposes the molten medium to the outside air, where the salt solidifies at around 400C and therefore self-sealing.

One would expect some corrosion after all the funding pulled by that paragon of virtue President Nixon.

And corrosion to be expected along with other probs, with the forced shutdown and therefore, lack of complimentary routine maintenance.

Also required is adjacent complimentary reprocessing that includes saturation with bubbled hydrogen purging, followed by electrolysis.

If allowed to run till the end of normal operational life and then the salt drained to fluorine safe containers, not any more of a problem than for safely stored raw fluorine salt!

All the alleged probs with Oak Ridge the result of the premature shutdown caused by the pulling of comparatively modest funding!

. Advise you restrict yourself to your knowledge base rather than the mountains of misleading misinformation one can find in various links, pertaining to thorium, placed by Russian oil oligarchs and advocates for current and far-far more dangerous, traditional nuclear industry?

Suggest you read, investigative prize-winning Journalist and science writer Ricard Martin's book, Thorium, Super fuel, subtitled, green energy.
Alan B.

Thanks so much Foxy

For your kind thoughts "Saturday, 22 December 2018 9:43:42 AM"

Remembering Dad.

Hi Galen

Thanks for your Christmas Season Youtube [1] bringing good wishes to all.

Specifically Charlie Chaplin's inspiring speech of global togetherness, tolerance and understanding during the darkness of WWII (1940).

Charlie must have enraged the actual "Great Dictator" [2] Hitler of the totally inhumane, including anti-Semitic, values.

Regards

Pete

[1] http://youtu.be/ibVpDhW6kDQ

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator

Hi Pete,

You are most welcome

Cheers
Galen

Dear Pete,

I know how you're feeling.

This will be my first Christmas without
my mum. She passed away in late January.

So many memories.

Thanks Foxy

I'm sorry to hear you lost your Mum this year.

I find my grief comes in waves. I forget, then remember my Dad, then forget again.

I hope you have a mainly Merry Christmas.

Pete