Excellent explanation! What a tangled forest the path to develop technology is through the ideas, paradigms, impressions, geopoliticals, politicos and bureaus. No affordable at the scale needed reactor exists, vessel size, coolant type or fuel cycle, which means technology development is mandatory for all variants. Deployment of any variant without significant technical, construction, logistic, deregulation and integration development will guarantee repeated failure and prohibitive cost.
Great post. This nuclear renaissance is likely to deliver solutions that are not yet evident, and will suprise to the upside. Energy demand has tightened focus and unleashed innovation. There is no way humanity in general, or venture capitalists specifically are going to leave the density of uranium, thorium and their manufactured cousins (plutonium and U-233) on the shelf.
Excellent explanation! What a tangled forest the path to develop technology is through the ideas, paradigms, impressions, geopoliticals, politicos and bureaus. No affordable at the scale needed reactor exists, vessel size, coolant type or fuel cycle, which means technology development is mandatory for all variants. Deployment of any variant without significant technical, construction, logistic, deregulation and integration development will guarantee repeated failure and prohibitive cost.
Great post. This nuclear renaissance is likely to deliver solutions that are not yet evident, and will suprise to the upside. Energy demand has tightened focus and unleashed innovation. There is no way humanity in general, or venture capitalists specifically are going to leave the density of uranium, thorium and their manufactured cousins (plutonium and U-233) on the shelf.
...abolish or significantly limit the use and misuse of LNT...
Comment: This one change will effect positive outcomes. There is a huge body of knowledge to support the elimination of LNT.