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Totally OT, but have they cracked the corrosion issues?

The last I remember hearing about it was that there is active research in a new Hastelloy-N plus Titanium alloy combo that supposedly eliminates corrosion and neutron embrittlement.

http://moltensalt.org.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ref...

I like the notion of Bi-Pb eutectic designs myself, but LFTR is much more likely in the near term.

...or Thorcon Power. Bitcoin mining puts an interesting economic incentive on cheap energy production and chip efficiency. That and its implications always fascinated me.