Aeronaut wrote:
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It also looks like the number of licenses sold next year will probably be far less than a dozen, boding well for type-certification licensing from foreign governments’ agencies, which may in turn become the DOE’s model. NRC’s website looks reasonable as long as the machine, operations, and site are designed with safety and security in mind. Politics remains to be pioneered…..
Next year? What are your indications that any licenses will be issued before the engineering is proven? Eric, AFAIK, has shown no indication that he thinks that would be appropriate, sensible, or likely.