Just the fact that the US govt couldn't make bombs with MSR's so they cut all funding and this causes people to think the technology doesn't work when in reality it would destroy current monopolies because it does work and is crazy cheap. Would also allow for these to be built almost anywhere because it doesn't need water to operate like Light water reactors
It was an experiment that was only a part reactor hence the (E) on MSR. They still had to build the "blanket" portion of the reactor.
Also the inventor of the light water reactor which is primarily used across the world and even influenced the CANDU reactors was designed by Alven Wineberg, the same person who designed the MSRE and was in favor or MSRs in general
And how long have fusion dipshits been spouting their crap? 1938 was the first attempt. Look how far we've got so far?
There was a working MSR(E) that produced 10MW through out the 1960's but we are the crackpots. Gotcha...
Yes ignore the fact that fusion has been under development since early 2000's by how many countries? But point out 1 country working off of partial plans from the 1960's. Yep that means its a total failure....
If there was as much money put into MSR as fissiob the world would be using them as the defacto reactors seriously what a stupid argument
They still need to figure out how to harness that plasma, right now its creating plasma but sadly this is the easy part. Extracting energy from that contained plasma will be 100x harder than creating it in the first place. If only we had some other type of reactor that was far simpler and could be up in running and producing electricity for the masses in a relatively short time span...
Taken these smart people and have them work on MOLTEN SALT REACTORS FFS
I'm no longer going to argue with an idiot