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Why do we not use MSBRs they’re the most efficient things on the fucking planet

Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 12:03:48 2019 No.10498072 View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2019 12:20:29 No.10498107 Report

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Because the military doesn't want it and soccer moms are afraid of it. It doesn't matter if it is the energy for the future or a vaccine against death itself, if it takes a lot of money and you can't get elected because of it then it won't likely happen.

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Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2019 12:31:56 No.10498133 Report

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Gas core fission reactors are more efficient, but the risk of having 100% of the fuel leak out with any given leak is very high so maintenance tolerances have to be even stricter. Not done for that reason. Solid fuel has the plausibility of a meltdown, but is also far more reliable and can be made to a lower standard safely. Also anyone who makes a gas core fission reactor might as well pump that money into fusion anyway since all fusors are gas core.

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Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2019 12:36:47 No.10498146 Report

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>>10498072
Think about the amount of potentially paradigm-shifting technology that is either caught up in the web of trials, or never even gets to that stage because of lack of funding.
The issue is more to do with the socioeconomics of the world, rather than limitations of the technology itself.
We need some kind of "soft technocracy" that favors progress, over rhetoric.

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Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2019 12:50:29 No.10498170 Report

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>>10498146
>"soft technocracy"
i say we just say fuck it and go full on, imagine how much we could have accomplished by now if science wasn't held back by money. Don't get me wrong money has been the catalyst for countless great inventions throughout history, but holy fuck does it piss me off thinking about all the things we could do without needing to worry about funding

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Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2019 12:52:57 No.10498177 Report

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>>10498170
>inb4 "The Technocratic Republic of China"
The issue is, you need some measure of rhetoric to keep the laypeople in check, otherwise they'll "overthrow the system", whatever system that may be (including technocracy).

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Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2019 12:54:41 No.10498178 Report

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>Why do we not use MSBR
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Purifying and reprocessing fissile molten salts is extremely under-researched area of physics. Largely automated (which is necessary due to the nature of radiation) practical applications for required chemical reprocessing are even further in the future. Hell, you can have 1/3 of periodic table circulating around in your primary molten salt cycle, you need some next level chemistry to purify that shit and barely anyone on our planet is doing any practical experiments to advance the situation.

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