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Sorry to say this but you have probably been deceived by the nuclear industry. Or perhaps you've been swept up by the breathless prose of popular science artic
by neutronicus 15y ago
Sorry to say this but you have probably been deceived by the nuclear industry.
Or perhaps you've been swept up by the breathless prose of popular science articles?
As far from peak uranium as we appear to be, there is simply no need to explore alternative fuel sources. Fuel is not scarce. The capital (political and financial) to build infrastructure - both power plants and reprocessing plants - is.
In that climate, the (never-been-built-or-licensed) LFTR is only a game-changer if its construction (and licensing and R&D) costs are an order of magnitude lower than those of current-gen reactors. This I highly doubt.