Its cool that they open sourced their design. I thought it was very likely that they would fail, even more so then most nuclear startups. They made design choic

Its cool that they open sourced their design. I thought it was very likely that they would fail, even more so then most nuclear startups. They made design choices that were questionable and their claim to run directly of nuclear waste seemed very surprising. They also seem to be way to optimistic about the regulatory and business aspects. For those interested, Terrestrial Energy and Moltex Energy are somewhat more serious attempts to build molten salt reactors, both are quite different form Transatomic. Terrestrial Energy and Moltex both are in the regulatory process in Canada (the only place a new reactor can realistically be approved) and Terrestrial Energy is the furthest along of any GenIV reactor in terms of commercial regulation in the Western world. This talk by the main designer of Moltex is a pretty nice summation why they think it would work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvXcoSdXYlk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvXcoSdXYlk