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Re:YC Research by hugh4 on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @03:32PM (#10348429)
Trouble is that the amounts of money we're talking about don't go far in nuclear research.
Re:YC Research by acidburnNSA on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @03:51PM (#10348551)
I think $10M can go pretty far in basic feasibility studies needed for the Transatomic reactor. You need a bunch of diffusion couple experiments and hydride stability studies. Lots of furnaces, fume hoods, and surrogate fission products. But you're right that when you get to major component qualification then yeah, $10M is nothing.