[ RadSafe ] Was There Ever Liquid Fuel Reactor?

[Doug Huffman]

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The "unexpected problems and drawbacks" were the same then that we
suffer now with conventional production reactors.

I don't believe that there were any crippling challenges inherent to the
design.  If we consider the broadest definition of liquid,
incompressible fluid, then a molten fuel is a continuum with a pebble bed.

On 3/30/2011 05:59, Roger Helbig wrote:
> Thanks, Doug
> 
> If it was such a good technology, why were no production reactors ever
> built?  Were there unexpected problems and drawbacks?
> 
> Roger
>
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