[trhway]

>I love the promise of nuclear energy

Nuclear today isn't that much different from steam engine - the fundamentals make it a technology of the past clearly losing to the today's tech, in this case to the massive solar/wind accompanied by the battery storage.

Nuclear will work in space, as it is the only tech feasible beyond the Mars orbit.

May be, may be the fundamentals will be sufficiently, to make it feasible on Earth, different for thorium MSRs and hopefully for fusion (my favorite is fusion driven thorium reactor - no need for fusion breakeven and relatively safe as turning off the fusion, the source of neutrons, stops thorium fission)

[boringg]

Thorium is inefficient. And its related to steam in that steam converts to heat and power. Differentiates considerably on the front end.

Nuclear solar and wind are all natural complements. This stupid this or that argument only empowers old oil and gas tech looking to hold on to the future.

[Moldoteck]

Steam usage is a wonderful invention. It's certainly not a technology of the past. Nuclear will work anywhere you don't want to have oversized transmission network and where weather conditions aren't stellar, unless ren are combined with another firm source like gas/coal/geothermal/hydro