2h32m25s05f Molten Salt Reactor Concerns - Richard Engel - Syd Ball - Corrosion - Tritium - TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-05-09

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Do you feel like the program had a sound technical basis or do you feel like technical problems were the basis for cancellation?

Syd Ball:
Some of the technical reasoning that I heard for the cancellation was that there was a corrosion problem. 

Richard Engel:
Tritium was raised as another issue, we made no effort on MSRE to do anything with tritium.

Did the people on the program feel like tritium was an insurmountable problem?

Richard Engel:
We recognized that tritium would have to be captured but most people thought that that's something that we should be able to do.

Kirk Sorensen:
Did the people on the program, particularly the chemists or the material scientists feel that corrosion was an insurmountable problem on the program?

Richard Engel:
No. And some of the subsequent experimental work seem to bode very favorably for an ability to solve that issue, as well as the tritium issue by the way because we did do some tritium experiments.