With no domestic funding, Oak Ridge donates salt for Czech molten salt reactor program
"A Czech nuclear research institute has received a shipment of fluoride salt from the US Department of Energy. The Řež research institute is conducting studies into the use of the salt as a coolant in high-temperature nuclear reactors.
The provision of such raw materials is provided for under a memorandum of understanding signed by the two countries in December 2012. The 75kg of lithium and beryllium fluoride salt supplied by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will be used for experiments to investigate the coolant material at Řež's critical test facility. The two countries will share the results.
Research into molten salt reactors using lithium and beryllium salts as the primary coolant has been ongoing for many years, and a prototype operated at Oak Ridge during the 1960s. The concept has seen renewed interest with the possibility of a new generation of high-temperature, low-cost and passively safe reactors."
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Gift_of_salt_for_Czech_research_program-2005138.html
Instead of taking the lead in this game-changing technology, entrenched financial interests are forcing us to hand supplies and jobs off to another country.
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