Molten salt reactors were trouble in the 1960s—and they remain trouble today - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Molten salt nuclear reactors—based on a 1960s Oak Ridge National Lab experiment—are all the rage among some nuclear power enthusiasts. But is that experiment worthy of emulation? Perhaps not.

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