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Diablo Canyon was a Gen I/II design from the 1950's/60's. Gen IV designs are far safer and cleaner, Thorium designs in particular, however they don't generate byproducts for nuclear weapons (boohoo), which is why the Thorium pathway was not taken.

If electricity was cheap it would give people inducements to use electric vehicles and appliances. It would be a market driven transition to these things instead of a policy driven one, which is doomed to fail as soon as the subsidies end.

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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).