Circular Logic
"Clearly it's not the right thing to do or everyone would be already doing it." As well as being a prominent theme from Atlas Shrugged, this is some of the most faulty circular logic ever. There are reasons that molten salt reactors are not abundant. I will elaborate. The anti-nuclear industry, like Dr. Makajani, is against it because they are against all nuclear. The concept of very good or much improved is lost because it is not perfect. Their solutions are not perfect either but that's a discussion for another day. The pro-nuclear lobbies are largely against molten salt reactors also because the majority of their money is made creating, maintaining, transporting and generally taking care of fuel rods. In other words, they are heavily invested in the status quo. Private industry cannot take charge and forge on because they know that government regulatory agencies can impede or even bankrupt them over the initiative. So as you see, the problems with MSRs are currently more political than technical. It's going to take someone like India to prove the principles and demonstrate effectiveness before the United States will move forward with a plan that would be a benefit to us all.
