Liquid Thorium Salt

Liquid Thorium Salt
Liquid Thorium Salt fluid icon
Properties
Type	Liquid
Made With/By	Mixing
Difficulty of Production	Hard due to the need of high quantities
Exists in Reality	Yes
Can Be Placed	No
Temperature	800°C
Renewable?	Yes
Tooltip
Liquid Thorium Salt 800°C [Strongly Corrosive] Thermal capacity: 400 TU per 1mB [PWR Coolant] Efficiency 100% [PWR Flux Multiplier] Core flux 150% [Liquid] [Viscous] Hbm's Nuclear Tech
Warnings
Fire Diamond NFPA 704 2 0 3 Liquid Thorium Salt

Liquid Thorium Salt is the strongest flux multiplier for the pressurized water reactor (PWR) in the mod, which is also unique compared to other PWR coolants.

Liquid Thorium Salt is a strongly corrosive and viscous fluid.

Production

There are 2 methods of producing Liquid Thorium Salt, the appropriate method is in the industrial mixer:

1,000mB

1,000mB

And the other method is that, compared to other coolants, when Hot Liquid Thorium Salt from the PWR passes through a heat exchanger, it turns into Depleted Liquid Thorium Salt, which cannot be used in the reactor. However, it can be enriched to reproduce Liquid Thorium Salt in a chemical plant:

Inputs	Recipes
Chemical Template: Thorium Salt Enrichment Production Time: 3.0 seconds Inputs: Depleted Liquid Thorium Salt, Thorium-232 Nugget Outputs: Liquid Thorium Salt, Uranium-233 Nugget, Tiny Pile of Nuclear Waste	16,000mB 2 16,000mB

Hot Liquid Thorium Salt
Properties
Temperature	1600°C
Tooltip
Hot Liquid Thorium Salt 1600°C [Strongly Corrosive] [Liquid] [Viscous] Hbm's Nuclear Tech

Usage and Cooling

It is only used as a PWR coolant. It is the strongest PWR flux multiplier in the mod, adding a whopping +150% to the core flux.

Liquid Thorium Salt also has a 400 TU heat capacity per mB of it.

Depleted Liquid Thorium Salt
Properties
Temperature	800°C
Tooltip
Depleted Liquid Thorium Salt 800°C [Strongly Corrosive] [Liquid] [Viscous] Hbm's Nuclear Tech

Pros and Cons

Because of it being a strong flux multiplier, it can be used in setups designed for breeding fuel.

Liquid Thorium Salt can also turn the PWR into a Uranium-233 megafactory. While only one nugget per 16000mB of thorium salt seems like a small amount at first glance, the PWR can heat up the coolant very fast, producing a lot of U-233 and generic nuclear waste as a byproduct.

However, because the PWR heats up so much coolant at once, it can be too much even for the 3-second process of enriching the thorium salt, so speed upgrades or several chemical plants may be required in order to keep up with the output.

The fact that it has such strong flux multiplier doesn't come without its burden: The flux increase can be too much to handle for the PWR and melt down, especially those that use strong fuel rods, such as HES-326.