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Moltex is claiming they have a design for a nuclear reactor with capital costs cheaper than coal: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:A7XF4_1g

• henrikschroder 11y ago
  Yeah, that perfectly fits what I said: > There's some experiments on small-scale fission plants, but there's no market, no buyers, no deployments.
  • petra 11y ago
    Sure we're far from commercialization , it's a slow business. But it may be cheaper than solar+storage. And china may be a market - they are throwing serious money at it , and maybe not the only one. And it may be more scalable, maybe. And let's not forget - solar is tiny. If you wanted to replace the energy infrastructure with solar - it would take decades , it would require a massive share of the world steel supply ,and it would be a huge building project, and the EROI would not be so big. So it might be too early to say who will win the race.