Reply #54: No, there is no competition for technologies that break how the nuclear industry functions.

[joshcryer]

The nuclear industry makes its money making fuel rods and leaving behind lots of waste that the rate payers have to pay for. Take that out of the equation, and you are no longer functioning within the confines of the nuclear industry. It's a no brainer, if the technology existed the nuclear industry, as it stands now, would be turned upside down on its head. The industry does not want it. I even tested this theory, I googled NEI and LFTR or IFR. There are hardly any posts about it, and the two I did find about LFTR were stupid ass posts that were talking about Kirk Sorenson's kids or something (it basically had nothing to do with supporting LFTR in any serious way).

Yes, the nuclear industry, and some nuclear advocates use Gen IV as a way to muster support for archaic Gen III/III+, however, I am not one of those people because I do not believe Gen III is adequate and do not believe any more should be built beyond those already being built or mostly planned out. End Gen III reactor buildout by the end of the decade. Period.