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Friday, June 10, 2011

The Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) ran at Oak Ridge National

 The father (key patent holder/inventor) of today's conventional PWR's argued that the molten salt reactor was much safer and better for civilian power ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../a-safe-secure-nuclear-fut_b_8731...


 Commenting on

A Safe, Secure Nuclear Future 

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-chu/a-safe-secure-nuclear-fut_b_873178.html


“The Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) ran at Oak Ridge National Laboratori
­es for 7 years. From the mid 60's to the early 70's. This is actually a concept that has been prototyped and could be commercial­ized within 5 years. Unfortunat­ely for America, China will get there long before the USA. IMO.

http://www­.thoriumen­ergyallian­ce.com/Tho­riumSite/p­ortal.html

http://wat­tsupwithth­at.com/201­1/01/30/ch­ina-announ­ces-thoriu­m-reactor-­energy-pro­gram-obama­-still-dwe­lling-on-s­putnik-mom­ents/

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