Gotta love that energetic background music.

I recently saw a contemporary video about how molten salt nuclear fission is much less risky in terms of meltdowns (not possible) and waste (much more manageable, and some waste products even being useful), and that this now seemingly abandoned method of nuclear energy might be the answer to many of our energy problems today. Does anyone know more about this? Is it a better alternative indeed? This video is a bit too technical for me, but I'd still like to think that this is a forgotten method of generating energy that might save us from completely wrecking the climate...

I recall something similar, low power medium heat mini-reactors that could not meltdown, on a tv science show a decade or more ago. They had a few small units (shipping container size) running a few buildings somewhere in Canada on an experimental basis, but I have no idea what came of the project.

Ouch, thought they said M.R.S.E. not M.S.R.E.

The future lies in the past.


When will the world buy into this.

I believe China i planning to build one.

Doesn't require uranium enrichment and doesn't produce byproducts that can be used for weapons.

This second point is why we chose not to go with this type of reaction when built our nuclear program in the US.

http://www.copenhagenatomics.com/?p=2741

Moving this video to Spacedog79's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.