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The US Aircraft Reactor Experiment ('''ARE''') was a 2.5 MW and was Moderated by Beryllium Oxide (BeO), liquid sodium as a secondary coolant, and it had a peak temperature of 860 °C, it operated for a 1000hr cycle in 1954. It was the first Molten Salt Reactor . Work on this project in the US stopped after ICBM s made it obsolete. The designs for its engines can currently be viewed at the EBR-I memorial building. It has recently come to the surface that the USSR developed and flew a nuclear aircraft. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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