LogFAQs > #961690690

Questionmarktarius posted...

If we weren't "nuclear bad!" since the 80s, we'd have molten salt reactors by now.
When they blow up, you've pretty much just got solid globs of radioactive salt laying around on the ground nearby, instead of a bigass fire blowing radioactive smoke all over everywhere.

I saw a design that has a pipe going to a solid salt plug below the reactor. If it melts down, they just release the molten salt down the pipe where it melts the plug and flows into a separate chamber which is designed to shed heat as much as possible. It's gravity based so you don't need power for it to work in case of an outage.