I agree with you that many of the technical problems originally encountered with u-233 reactors are probably within reach of current technology.
I just couldn’t make heads or tails out of the technical discussion in the article.
My opinion is that reactors using u-235 or pu-239 are already well established technologically and produce power more cheaply than any other existing technology.
Why spend the money and resources trying to develop something that we won’t see for 10 to 20 years?
We could start building nuclear plants using existing technology after breakfast tomorrow morning.
“Why spend the money and resources trying to develop something that we won’t see for 10 to 20 years?
We could start building nuclear plants using existing technology after breakfast tomorrow morning.”
Very valid point. I would think that if many of the hot button issues from the people who oppose everything were removed, the process could be fast tracked.
As you stated we have the known designs and yet we still are dragging our feet. The waste issue is huge and you can see the political games being played with Yucca Mt. (Thanks Harry R.)
Either build what we have or shift gears to something that has a bunch of research but not a long commercial history.
We sure as hell cannot run a country like America on windmills or solar as they are simply too intermittent.