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Thorium-based reactors famously are constrained by the lack of such material which would withstand the contact with hot molten salt, especially somewhat radioactive.


As anyone with a boat knows, salt water is insanely corrosive and gets into everything. Even large container ships have to be regularly serviced.

I can only what hot molten salt does to industrial processes.




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