Reply To: Competition from the Thorium reactor

[Rematog]

We, and I am a career professional in the power industry, use the commerially available technology that can produce power at low cost and low finanical risk.

Thoses reasons are why convention nuclear fission plant’s haven’t been built in the last 25 years, cost and risk.

If FF can produce power directly without a steam cycle T/G, that is better as it costs less. And small scale risks can be taken (but that does not mean we a venture capitialists).

If you think about it, retail utilities are used to distributed operations. They have lines, transformer, substations, all throughout their service territories.

But, they are hard eyed, bottom line, risk adverse, business. Someone has to produce a working piece of hardware they can buy. They will likely buy demonstraton unit’s for (to them) a small cost, to see if it works. If it does, they will buy more.