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Old 12-10-2012, 11:15 PM
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Good good. IMO molten salt reactor tech is more likely to positively influence the world's energy (and political) problems than anything else that I am aware of. Not many people like to talk about it though. I'm also glad to hear of Chinese progress on it, for a couple of reasons.
  1. They must use nuclear. No other energy source comes close to meeting their projected growth in demand.
  2. LWR's (current tech) are finicky, and need a lot of well trained baby-sitters. That kind of thing can't scale well.
  3. We're down-wind of any probable nuclear accidents.
  4. If they used coal, we'd be worse off pollution-wise than with periodic Chinese nuclear accidents.
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