SSR-W (Moltex) Stable Salt Reactor Wasteburner - Dr. Ian Scott @ ORNL MSRW 2020

Moltex https://www.moltexenergy.com sees the challenge for nuclear as being low enough capital and fixed operating costs to be profitable at 30-50% capacity factor in unsubsidized competition with fossil fuels. Radical innovation needed to slash costs of nuclear. SSR achieves that cost objective, comfortably, through intrinsic safety and simplicity.

“Static” molten salts in fuel pins was rejected by ORNL because convection of fluids would be unreliable in an aircraft due to gravity's impact on reactor being variable during flight.

Fast spectrum “Wasteburner” SSR-W:
 Fueled by higher actinides from conventional oxide fuel
 Chloride salt fuel
 Output temperature 600°C
 Patented exceptionally simple process (Waste to Stable Salts) to extract Pu/Am from spent CANDU fuel with only 0.38% Pu

SSR-W is expected to be piloted in New Brunswick, powered by "nuclear waste" / "spent fuel" from CANDU reactors.

Dr. Ian Scott presented to Oak Ridge National Lab's 2020 Molten-Salt Reactor Workshop on 2020-10-14 (Oct 14th, 2020). ORNL's conference captures and slide-decks can be found here: https://msrworkshop.ornl.gov/msr2020/

Edited and uploaded to YouTube by Gordon McDowell:
https://thoriumremix.com/

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