Path Toward a Breeding, Proliferation-Resistant, Thermal-Spectrum Molten Salt Reactor | David E. Holcomb, INL

Liquid-fueled, thermal-spectrum molten-salt breeder reactors (TS-MSBRs) offer the potential for affordable, safe, inexhaustible energy with minimal potential for nuclear material misuse and without significant actinide waste generation. Realizing the full set of TS-MSBR capabilities is only now becoming possible with the advent of advanced fuel-salt-processing techniques, improved materials, advanced modeling and simulation tools, and a more detailed understanding of fuel-salt properties.