• lovesickoyster@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It wasn’t viable at the time, makes sense they’d focus on exploring other avenues.

    from the very same source you provided:

    The broadest and perhaps most important conclusion from the MSRE experience was that a molten salt fueled reactor concept was viable. It ran for considerable periods of time, yielding valuable information, and maintenance was accomplished safely and without excessive delay.

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      11 months ago

      Viable as in theory it worked.

      Not viable as in this makes economic sense to continue with in comparison to other avenues.