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by cogman10 478 days ago
It takes decades to turn on a new plant which is why you won't see the latest and greatest commercially deployed anytime soon.
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Molten Salt reactors are designs from the 60s-70s and afaik no one ever built on commercially. No one was willing to take a gamble on building a new design when we had working reactors already and approval for those was already difficult enough.
AFAIU the corrosion problems are still not solved from a commercial PoV. Ie, without having to shut down and replace piping too often for it too be viable.