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You need to take into account the cost of doing nothing about nuclear waste or the idiotic idea of storing it for thousands of years. - https://earth.stanford.edu/news/steep-costs-nuclear-waste-us#gs.p34hpj

And molten salt reactors are not overly expensive - https://www.thmsr.com/en/costs/

Funny you should mention China - https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/china-unveil-worlds-first-waterless-molten-salt-re/ and

It’s gaining traction globally - https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/11/17-countries-cooperating-on-molten-salt.html

India is a believer - https://southasianvoices.org/indias-venture-into-molten-salt-reactors/

Not bad considering the emotional baggage fission at large carries from the completely asinine light water reactor failures. GE Hitachi and Westinghouse soiled the cradle beyond belief.

You need to take into account the cost of doing nothing about nuclear waste
***Sounds incredibly dangerous. Is that what you are proposing?

or the idiotic idea of storing it for thousands of years. -
***It needs to be dealt with for the entire time it is dangerously radioactive, which can be thousands of years. There’s such a gigantic, YUGE duhh factor to this which seems to escape your notice.

And molten salt reactors are not overly expensive - https://www.thmsr.com/en/costs/
***Then build the things. Feel free to remove the guvmint subsidy of liability insurance while you count the cost. Once the cost of waste disposal is taken into account on top of that, you end up with yet another extremely expensive energy source. But at least it’s Carbon FREE!!! yippeee. When a coal plant goes kaflooey, maybe a few hundred workers die. When a nuke plant goes kaflooey [which has happened] there can be thousands of CIVILIANS dead as well as massive cleanup costs.

Funny you should mention China -
***You think China CARES about the cleanup costs of Nuke?

It’s gaining traction globally -
***Good. As long as they count the cost, I’m okay with it. But they aint really counting the cost.

India is a believer -
***Much of the LENR results are coming from India lately.

Not bad considering the emotional baggage fission at large carries from the completely asinine light water reactor failures. GE Hitachi and Westinghouse soiled the cradle beyond belief.
***Then you DO acknowledge that at least the water reactor fission stuff is basically a failure. Got it. There are intersections of failure with other fission technologies, such as waste disposal and accident liability insurance.

Okay, so here’s where I “brought up China”.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4037775/posts?page=81#81

So... breeder reactors. Expensive. Perhaps not so expensive? Doubtful, or even the Chinese would be doing it. If we were to count breeder reactors into all the processing of all the nuke waste in America, it would still be very expensive, wherein natural gas and coal end up being cheaper.
***And the response was that China is building the FIRST molten salt reactor. The VERY FIRST. Not dozens nor hundreds, but the very first one. Chinese are NOT building them. They are building ONE. Breeder reactors are expensive. And THIS ONE is NOT even a Breeder Reactor.