> Gen IV designs are far safer and cleaner Gen IV reactors are, for the most part, somewhere between a pipe dream and a spreadsheet. China is the only country

> Gen IV designs are far safer and cleaner Gen IV reactors are, for the most part, somewhere between a pipe dream and a spreadsheet. China is the only country to have built one, and we don't have clear view at its cost. > Thorium ... which is why the Thorium pathway was not taken. Pipe dream + tin foil hat thinking > If electricity was cheap it would give people inducements to use electric vehicles Electric cars are cheaper per mile driven in most places, especially if you charge at home. > It would be a market driven transition to these things instead of a policy driven one Policies create all markets. See for example the implicit subsidies granted to ICE cars by a either a total lack of carbon price (or outright ban on their pollution like that on leaded gasoline).