Who Killed the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR)?

[kristopher]

9. But all of the nuclear power options HAVE been evaluated

They have been weighed against their performance in 4 areas - cost, safety, waste, proliferation.

The once through fuel uranium cycle achieved the best balance of results in those 4 areas; all other technologies scored worse.

Since the nuclear revival has shown itself to be a dud, the industry is trying to revive flagging interest by flogging the "also rans" as THE ANSWER that has been ignored but is waiting in the wings to save the day if we would just pump a shitton of money into it...

Its the traveling wave reactor that will save us. No, it's the thorium fuel cycle that will save us. No it's the LFTR that will save us. No it's the SMR that will save us. No it's the AP1000 that will save us. No it's the EPR that will save us. No its the pebble bed reactor that will save us. No it's the Gen IV that will save us.

Meantime Flamanville is years behind schedule and billions over budget. Ditto Olkuluito. And the proposed projects here have ballooned 4X from their initial proposed costs and are 5X-6X more than where the price of those (not) completed units was supposed to have led us to by now.

IOW the OP is more nuclear industry hype.