TerraPower

>>8722727
No. NuScale is gerting NRC approved much, much sooner. Terrapower hasn't even started the process.

>>8722737
Never heard of NuScale. It seems to be going live in the mid 2020s at the same time as TerraPower says its first commercial plants will be live though.

I'm not certain TWR's are feasible without very large and very enriched starting fuel loads. Nuclear power has a capital cost issue (mostly driven by the red-tape filled regulatory environment) and I think this will make it worse.

>>8722818
Terrapower haven't begun the licensing process while NuScale have.

>>8722818
Haha no. Not a fucking chance that terrapower will have a commercial plant up before NuScale does. The NRC liscensing process is long

Hopefully Trump fixes the NRC or just abolishes it

>>8722727
No, Project PACER is the way to go with nuclear energy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_PACER

>>8724240
We tried that. Radioactive steam outburst in front of a bunch of reporters killed it.

>>8722727
CANDU is pretty much the way to go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor

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The only way to go with dirty nuclear energy is to get rid of it.

>>8724511
heavy water is very expensive, coolant leaks are very expensive.
>>8724558
Lockheed's fusion reactor effort isn't very serious