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Thorcon 2021-10 Update - Lars Jorgensen @ ORNL MSRW 2021

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Costs are estimated at $1.2B for a 1GWe site. Largely verified by DSME and Doosan.  A large shipyard can produce 20 Gwe/year.  Build time is 1 year. Time from permits and land to grid power is 2 years. Electricity costs are $0.03 USD/kWhr.  Can compete directly with coal in the developing world.  Recent change is the addition of the vault – dry cask storage for 80 years operation by adding 5m to the 180m long hull.

COP26 - Something Happened

Via Dr. Chris Keefer and C4NE (Canadians For Nuclear Energy) I think a lot of advanced were made, and very interesting conversations were captured. This is just what I experienced via C4NE...

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/liberals-leaving-nuclears-future-to-the-market-while-other-countries-bet-big

...more to come on this.