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> Gen IV designs are far safer and cleaner

Gen IV reactors are, for the most part, somewhere between a pipe dream and a spreadsheet. China is the only country to have built one, and we don't have clear view at its cost.

> Thorium ... which is why the Thorium pathway was not taken.

Pipe dream + tin foil hat thinking

> If electricity was cheap it would give people inducements to use electric vehicles

Electric cars are cheaper per mile driven in most places, especially if you charge at home.

> It would be a market driven transition to these things instead of a policy driven one

Policies create all markets. See for example the implicit subsidies granted to ICE cars by a either a total lack of carbon price (or outright ban on their pollution like that on leaded gasoline).