LFTR Pony on facebook posted this article, too. And
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Although there are no commercial MSRs in operation, there is an MSR and thorium energy research and development program at the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (Sinap), with which Antso has a partnership agreement.
Excuse, and the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory—quite humble in being anonymous in this deal . . .
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 17, 2015—Representatives from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) are meeting at ORNL this week as part of an agreement between the two institutions to work together on the advancement of salt-cooled nuclear reactor technologies.
Two years ago. I hope the news is that Flibe Energy of Huntsville will have its working LFTR sooner than the Chinese, Russians, and the others.
Does the silicon transmute to phosphorus and how would that affect the characteristics of this NiMo-SiC alloy? Above my pay grade.