Safe operation
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Intrinsically safe from meltdown
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Radioactivity largely confined in melt – low vapor pressure
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Minimum fissile inventory
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Fast boron injection available
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Minimum excess reactivity and rest heat in accidented core
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Completely remote monitor and control
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Eventually fuelled for life without any further need of human intervention
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Non-operational crystallized salt melt stable for years before site decommisson
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All nuclear grade work orders can be handled by expert during maintenance inspections
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Simple procedures to confine small quantities of poisonous flourides and fission products
Non-proliferant
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Start charge and uranium233 dissolved in cubic meters of 450- 700degC salt melt
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Uranium233 recognized as unsuitable as weapons material because of decay heat and intense gamma radiation
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Time window for freshly bred uranium233 as terrorist weapons material can be further mitigated by ionium doping or uranium238 denaturing
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Fast denaturation injection available
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Low thermal neutron flux out of core for un-authorized parasite breeding
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Dirty nuclear or chemical bomb ineffective
Minimal environmental footprint
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Absolute minimum of nuclear waste
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Waste handling dimensioned for the short lived Fission Products, the fissioned component
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Only negligible levels of High Level Waste, the unfissioned component
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No need for large cooling water reservoirs
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Absolutely no CO2
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Minimum inventory of poisonous chemicals
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Minimum need for special steel, concrete, processing acids, fluorine, light elements