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The way India is doing it is not cost effective, or safe or efficient. Using the solid fuel method mean its less than 1% efficient and the rest (99%) is wastes that need to be reprocess. Reprocessing fuel rod/pin is expensive and dangerous. Solid fuel reactor work under extreme pressure and you have to build a costly containment structure, you need backup system after backup system to ensure that water is available to control the heat/pressure. Without this and the whole thing pop like a high pressure soda can ie what happen in Japan.Which approach is better ??
The MSTR(TMSR) or LFTR is the exact opposite it work at atmospheric pressure, so don't need costly containment structure. That mean constructing a MSTR will take a lot less time and money than constructing a solid fuel reactor. The safety feature of a MSTR is gravity, if gravity is working than MSTR can operate safely. Efficiency, MSTR is 95%+ efficient, produce 200% less waste by products. No need to reprocess the fuel like solid fuel reactor using thorium.
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