2h35m17s13f Milton Shaw - Clean Up Desks Go Home - Competing Breeder Reactors - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-09

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Milton Shaw who was the head of reactor development in Washington called up he says stop that MSRE Reactor Experiment, fire everybody, just tell them to clear out their desks and go home. And send me the money for fast breeders.

Syd Ball:
We were competing with the fast breeder people at Argonne [National Labs] mainly. They just had more political sway than Molten Salt Reactor.

Do  to see a prevailing opinion about Molten Salt Reactors?

We haven't been funded to look at Molten Salt Reactors.

There's no opinion?

The opinion is simple. Build IFR. That's it.

Paul Haubenreich:
We realized that we were minor league money-wise compared to the other program.

Richard Engel:
One anecdote that I heard was put your hand on your desk take everything that has to do with molten salts, sweep it off and you're finished.

Syd Ball:
I saved all my documents.

Richard Engel:
I did too.