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		spenrose on April 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire 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)

fnordfnordfnord on April 11, 2014 | [–]

Komanoff doesn't know it but he is helping make the Thorium MSR case. Proponents of the MSR are also critical of LWR economics.

jonnydark on April 11, 2014 | [–]

In the USA

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