I don't have any connection with these folks, but it seems a game changer on projected price, walk-away safety, thorium compatibility, and claimed use of existing materials: moltexenergy.com .

Molten salts in tubes. They claim "cheaper than coal" can be realistic again.

Thoreau: "Read not the Times; read the Eternities. Conventionalities are at length as bad as impurities. Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are effaced each morning, or rather rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth."

When important truths can be partial truths, then -- as with the posted article -- we can be bold in their statement.

"Ich bin ein Amerikaner."

And when Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner", he was certainly not referring to the pastry (a jam-filled doughnut, though spheroidal instead of toroidal) known in most of Germany as "Berliner" but known in Berlin as "Pfannkuchen", which in the rest of Germany just refers to a pancake.

An illustration: How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/how-i-lea...

I like this argument. The government is effectively subsidizing a huge amount of real estate (to a huge cost, with the taxes collected from everyone), for the usage of free parking. I would prefer if all that money went instead to free housing, or free healthcare.

In addition to TerraPower, moltexenergy.com desribes another conversation-changer. Not a PWR. Walk-away safe. Molten salt in tubes. Can burn existing waste. Apparently can use Thorium. Projected costs less than coal. Uses existing materials.

This has me believing in nuclear energy again: .. www.moltexenergy.com .. Molten salt in tubes. Walk-away safe. Economics estimated cheaper than coal. Can burn existing wastes. Uses existing materials.