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lovesickoyster@lemmy.world 10 months agoand its a molten salt design, which I think(?) (source: my ass) means that the fuel would at worst leak into the sea and immediately solidify back into some inert state.
tmsr design has a freeze plug, a part of fuel that has to constantly be actively below freezing temperature and if something goes wrong the fuel is just dumped into a separate container where the reactivity drops to zero. It never leaves the system.