Who Killed the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR)?

[Bob Wallace]

121. Those numbers...

The deaths attributed to wind that I've seen include things like someone sneaking on to a wind site and committing suicide, a skydiver parachuting into a tower, a truck overturning during a delivery, someone crushed by pipes falling off a truck during delivery, a crane operator driving into a power line - stuff like that.

Included in wind turbine deaths are homeowners falling from their rigs and a child being killed when an unsecured home rig rolled over on her. Deaths that have nothing to do with the wind industry.

One of the 'wind deaths' was that of a crop duster who flew into a test rig that was measuring wind potential.

I've never seen "nuclear deaths" include construction deaths and operational deaths. No mention of workers falling or workers that have been scalded to death by steam leaks.

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Cost. Please, don't go all Pammy on us. Nuclear is the fifth most expensive non-fossil fuel electricity source on the page you link. There are four cheaper production methods.

And those numbers are likely "corrupt". The projected price of nuclear probably is calculated using loan rates available only with taxpayer loan guarantees and taxpayer provided liability insurance.

New nuclear would receive very high subsidies. Not only loan guarantees and free liability insurance but also the PTC subsidies that wind and solar receive.