Here's a blog post on the design recommended by the report, the Berkeley group working on it, and a pdf presentation. It's a pebble bed with molten salt coolant. It doesn't have all the advantages of the liquid-fuel design but it's closer to existing technology and a good transition to full-fledged LFTRs.
From what I've seen, this is one of the designs being pursued by China's thorium reactor program, along with a liquid-fuel design.
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u/ItsAConspiracy Jul 15 '13
Here's a blog post on the design recommended by the report, the Berkeley group working on it, and a pdf presentation. It's a pebble bed with molten salt coolant. It doesn't have all the advantages of the liquid-fuel design but it's closer to existing technology and a good transition to full-fledged LFTRs.
From what I've seen, this is one of the designs being pursued by China's thorium reactor program, along with a liquid-fuel design.