Molten Salt Reactor - Molten-salt Fueling Options

Molten-salt Fueling Options

• The thorium-fueled variant called Liquid fluoride thorium reactor, has been very exciting to many nuclear engineers. Its most prominent champion was Alvin Weinberg, who patented the light-water reactor and was a director of the U.S.'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a prominent nuclear research center. It has recently been the subject of a renewed interest.

• MSR can be fueled using enriched Uranium-235.

• MSR can be fueled using fissile material from dismantled nuclear weapons.