#2640
Brian H
Participant

Oh, Adam, you said, “fission projects give results quicker”. Well, let’s have a race.

You find a fission project in the proposal stage, and check out the timeline for design, approval, construction, first output. Then compare it to the ~7 yrs to a prototype fully functional FF generator. Then add 3 years to tool up for cookie-cutter replication of hundreds of them. (Yeah, I know, depends on it working as projected, but there’s only about $10,000,000 max at risk here; tiny fractions of 1% of the cost of any fission plant of any design anywhere.)

Oh, and don’t forget to factor in the cost provisions for storage and disposal of spent fission fuel. That’ll be hundreds of million$ or billion$ more. Versus maybe $1000 for a few decades worth of helium party balloons for FF. 🙂