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Re:Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire by spenrose on Friday April 11, 2014 @10:13AM (#7572923)
Two articles on why nuclear will never* scale up:

http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2013/11/21/why-officia...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2014/02/20/why-the-...

* (again. It did reach real scale in post-WWII France among other places)

Re:Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire by fnordfnordfnord on Friday April 11, 2014 @11:29AM (#7573444)
Komanoff doesn't know it but he is helping make the Thorium MSR case. Proponents of the MSR are also critical of LWR economics.
Re:Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire by jonnydark on Friday April 11, 2014 @10:33AM (#7573050)
In the USA