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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by kragen on Sunday February 21, 2021 @08:06PM (#26219324)
I like molten-salt reactors, but they still depend on steam turbines† and cooling systems to convert the heat into useful energy. So they don't help to solve the fundamental cost problem Epistasis identified: although they might reduce the gap between high nuclear-plant cost and low coal-plant cost, but they won't cross the Rubicon to even lower solar-plant cost.

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† which operate at substantially more than one atmosphere!

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