It can’t reach fusion temps yet, but they intend it to in the future, but there’s a lot of work to do to get there. Sounds interesting.
But you know that ICEs will be going bang like that more often.
Yes but less likely to wipe out an entire neighbourhood. 
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If they wipe out an entire neighborhood the extra miles the debris fly will have to be taxed as well.
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A special challenge for the Crit’Air folks as well.
AHH you’ll only need to pay if you are class 3 and above and the bit of the windscreen with the sticker is located.
Didn’t the soviets use that type of reactor in some of their submarine classes? Too difficult to keep running and can’t (easily) be switched off
Looks like they are at a similar point to France.
Design work progresses for Russian molten salt reactor - World Nuclear News Design work progresses for Russian molten salt reactor - World Nuclear News
They were first developed in the US in the 1950’s for of all things a proposed nuclear aircraft 
. It was rightfully canned. They’ve had a chequered history because of reliability issues but the compact and simple design is popular now for SMR reactors and has been proposed for submarines and aircraft carriers.
Some of the papers I skim read through seemed to imply that impurities are the bane of these eutectic systems, so I’m a little confused how they’re supposed to eat more rubbish than they produce, unless that rubbish is highly purified?
I think the point is that they can be fed a mix of things that can be broken down into lighter, less radioactive byproducts and that these can be extracted much easier than in a conventional reactor. However, many of the proposed future designs, such as the MSRs, are sealed systems that will only be fueled with Pu/U that last 20-30 years before being shut down. It’s only at that point that the ‘soup’ of various radioactive byproducts can be reprocessed. I’m not sure that this is really that much better thn current designs.
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I think they will have to hurry to catch the Chinese. Too many sites to show here but you can see them by Googling ‘Thorium reactors’.
Everyone is at it!
Wendelstein 7-X - Wikipedia Wendelstein 7-X - Wikipedia
But what’s the point really? Electricity won’t become cheaper, not in the UK certainly
That’s a very interesting and different design called a stellarator. The stellarator deign is supposed to be much better at confining the super hot fusion plasma … as long as it can be made to work 
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Seems every thread morphs to recipes or those who prepare and cook/bake or roast them @Stella 
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I’ve actually seen two recently on the road.