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That same reactor was running at the very modest capacity of 8 MW (enough power to run about 8 average Walmart stores). The $130 million dollar decommissioning cost was extremely high for the amount of power it output over its entire operating lifetime. The economies of scale don't bode well for LFTR being a long term cost viable solution that still has many hurdles and disadvantages attached to it.
It wasn't a full scale reactor. They did it as a prototype proof of concept. Still the cleanup cost was shitty but they learned stuff like the corrosion involved with the fuel.
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[–] Morbo ago
That same reactor was running at the very modest capacity of 8 MW (enough power to run about 8 average Walmart stores). The $130 million dollar decommissioning cost was extremely high for the amount of power it output over its entire operating lifetime. The economies of scale don't bode well for LFTR being a long term cost viable solution that still has many hurdles and disadvantages attached to it.
[–] B3bomber ago
It wasn't a full scale reactor. They did it as a prototype proof of concept. Still the cleanup cost was shitty but they learned stuff like the corrosion involved with the fuel.