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MSR/LFTR are fission, produce a fraction of the waste, and would require a fraction of the investment to make them market ready. Don't get me wrong, happy to s
by bassman9000 7y ago
MSR/LFTR are fission, produce a fraction of the waste, and would require a fraction of the investment to make them market ready.
Don't get me wrong, happy to see fusion advancing. But we need lots of power, today, market-ready, outside the lab. No, not the US or Europe. China, India, Africa. They want to grow, now, and we don't want them to use coal/oil, nor outdated PWR/LWR/HWR.
If fusion is 20y and $1T away, and we can have hundreds of MSR/LFTR 1GWe plants by investing $1B over 10y years, desalinating water, making aviation fuel out of sea water, and recycling fission waste from older reactors, I'd stick with fission for now.