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Originally posted by SonicBlast: ↑

AdmiralHyman G. Rickover(the “Father of the Nuclear Navy”):-
An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics: (1) It is simple. (2) It is small. (3) It is cheap. (4) It is light. (5) It can be built very quickly. (6) It is very flexible in purpose ("omnibus reactor"). (7) Very little development is required. It will use mostly “off-the-shelf” components. (8) The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now.
On the other hand, a practical reactor plant can be distinguished by the following characteristics: (1) It is being built now. (2) It is behind schedule. (3) It is requiring an immense amount of development on apparently trivial items. Corrosion, in particular, is a problem. (4) It is very expensive. (5) It takes a long time to build because of the engineering development problems. (6) It is large. (7) It is heavy. (8) It is complicated.http://ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/Rickover.pdf

And this
“Ultimately, the same forces working against traditional uranium nuclear reactors work against the development of LFTRs. In addition, the process of developing and building thorium reactors - and in particular an LFTR - contains many unknowns because of the world’s inexperience with the technology.The uncertainty in testing costs and possible failures in adopting a new technology for a relatively small benefit ends up being too high a cost to necessitate a switch.”

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