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Australia's urban water supply: 'Crisis…. what crisis?' : Comments

By Charles Essery, published 30/12/2019

In the 2000-2008 drought desalination plants were the

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Max, what form is the fuel in the molten salt ?
Posted by Bazz, Saturday, 18 January 2020 1:10:13 PM
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Bazz,
you owe me about 2 dozen answers to 2 dozen unanswered questions in other threads, so you can go google all that mate. Short answer, a frigging huge variety because the stuff keeps transmuting. But the MCSFR starts off with a trigger source like enough fissioning uranium, and then like Dory in finding Nemo, "Just keeps on fissioning, keeps on fissioning."

Unlike the LFTR, it eats a wide variety of fissionable materials and will hit the fertile stuff with enough neutrons over time to turn them into more fuel to burn as well.

More here
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/07/elysium-molten-chloride-salt-fast-reactor-will-use-existing-technology-for-rapid-approval.html
Posted by Max Green, Saturday, 18 January 2020 1:26:02 PM
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QUESTION TO ALL... So if we used traditional or alternate nuclear power (eg MSR), you would accept potable water recycling? and not continue the illogical "yuk factor" tradition.
Posted by Alison Jane, Sunday, 19 January 2020 6:04:17 PM
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