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> building new nuclear power plants will be too expensive and too late, since we'll have figured out a renewable energy concept that'll handle the load by then
by IAmBroom 4mo ago
> building new nuclear power plants will be too expensive and too late, since we'll have figured out a renewable energy concept that'll handle the load by then.
That's a helluva prediction.
Thorium reactors would be practically limitless in fuel supply, but we aren't getting them without seriously funded nuclear research. That is far less likely during a band on commercial stations.
- Arodex 4mo ago>Thorium reactors The same reactors nuclear powers with decades of experience haven't deployed? We will get two or three revolutions in solar power and battery technology before a single thorium reactor is viable. You could invest all the R&D budget of thorium reactors in perovskite panels and it would generate more MW per CHF invested.
- Moldoteck 4mo agoit was mostly because PWR's are cheaper. But Thorium is advancing https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/first-criticality-for-indian-fast-breeder-reactor https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/first-criticality-fo... You don't need only MW but MW at requested time