Diamond containment walls…..
fluoride thorium salt ….
Heavy water,
CO2 gas turbines are the closest thing you’ve mention to “off the shelf”
“This construction cost should be about $1000/kw. ” Where do you get this figure for a very high tech, cutting edge plant?
Axil, you most likely have a PhD. but…. how much time have you spent in a hard hat and steel toed boots?
You talk about doing things on an industrial scale and cost, that are hard to do and expensive in a lab….
Would this thing run 18 months between planned 4 week outages… and have a 90% capacity factor….?
Somehow, I don’t see something like this bringing cheap power to the 3rd world.