Steve Firth wrote:
wrote:

Not likely. Electric is 3x 4x as expensive and that gap will not be
closed for the lifetime of any current type of gas/electric system.

And what effect do you think the introduction of Travelling Wave
Reactors (TWRs) will have on the costs of nuclear electricity
generation?

Make it more expensive mainly.

Fuel costs are currently so low in a Uranium reactor as to be almost
irrelevant.

Build cots are everythung.

No one has ever built a TWR


TWRs can be fuelled on depleted uranium with a single charge
lasting 60-100 years,

THERTEICALLY.

Theoretically a fusion reactor could use distlled seawater and be even
cheaper. Don't see any about though.

they have higher thermal efficiencies than current
technologies and produce less waste. It's estimated that current
supplies of depleted uranium if used as fuel in TWRs would produce
sufficient electricity for 80% of the world's population to sustain
Western electricity consumption for 1000 years.

Very little CO2 emitted over that 1000 years either.


The figures are even better for fusion, but no one has built a practical
unit yet either.

And with the Losers Party running everything, its unlikely anyone is
educated to a standard to allow them to, either.