That test will depend on this one in Albuquerque, because molten-salt reactor cooling has not been tried in the United States since the 1960s, when a five-year experiment at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee, proved the idea viable.

能否获批将取决于阿尔伯克基的这次试验，因为自20世纪60年代以来，美国还没有尝试过熔盐反应堆冷却。那时，田纳西州橡树岭国家实验室进行了为期五年的实验，证明了这一想法的可行性。