The future is becoming of a present-day occurrence, in terms of technology. There is always something new coming out. When it comes to nuclear power, there are advances in molten salt reactors. What are these reactors? What are their benefits and disadvantages? How are they the future to nuclear power?
It is important to discuss what nuclear power is before getting into what molten salt reactors are because they go hand in hand with one another. So, what is nuclear energy? It is when “…the nucleus of a very large atom can split in two. In this process, a certain amount of the large atom’s mass is converted to pure energy following Einstein’s famous formula E = MC2 where M is small amount of mass and C is the speed of light” (What is). In finding out about the formula’s success, many discovered that the energy could be used as weapons, hence the ‘nuclear weapons’ during the 30’s and 40’s.
