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Current reactor designs cannot get that hot without melting. I bet we could design a molten salt reactor that could safely get there, especially if electricity
by wtracy 3y ago
Current reactor designs cannot get that hot without melting. I bet we could design a molten salt reactor that could safely get there, especially if electricity production is not a design goal.
- xyzzyz 3y agoI seriously doubt that. What would you make the reactor of, so that it withstands temperatures that melt steel? How are you going to move that coolant around? There are hard physical limits here. In reality, nobody would bother, because you can just make electricity and use it to melt steel instead.
- m4rtink 3y agoNuclear lightbulb engine - but for process heat! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_lightbulb Like it was not crazy dangerous enough. ;-)