Lightbridge Corporation (LTBR)

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Thanks for finding and posting this terrific article. Politically savvy, aware of nuclear's reputation and it even mentions the irony of every western nation shutting down nuke plants, not opening them as China seems to be doing. But there is so much left out of even this article.

Who maintains the big timetable which articles like this follow? I've never heard of these big plan before, but obviously, these plans have been going on and carried out for many years, even decades.

And yet again, the article includes the predictable NOT mentioning anything about HALEU or any of the new fuels. Meanwhile, LTBR continues to rack up patents. For what purpose?

Question: are these plants being built for new fuels or old fuels? If the latter, why?

Why not build using the safe fuels, the fuels which can't repeat 3 Mile Island?

China is betting the world on this decision. They are playing a big game and the world should, perhaps, tell them no loans unless they use HALEU.

Why would they not start using new fuels, at least in some plants. If it works as research seems to show, then use it for all. Use it for safety and environmental reasons.

Who is getting rich by not starting with HALEU fuels? It should be a scandal. Even this article speaks of the length of time nuke waste needs to sit perfectly for 100k years, or some such sci madness. That's bad design already.

But sanity will not be allowed. Too much money at stake. The old guard, and the new Chinese who will become the new old guard, will likely start with the old fuels. This new old guard will suck as many dollars as they can out of it before the new fuels are brought in to save the environmental day.

Instead of doing the environmentally right and smart thing from the beginning, they don't seem so inclined.

So, LTBR will be left hanging on the hook once again.Seems funny, LTBR will be the industry's ace in the hole. And they'll all look like heros while stretching out the time it takes to make the world a safer place.

And who can guarantee no accidents will happen while they wait to do the right and smart nuke thing?

At 19 million shares, lets hope we all live long enough to see the big pimple popping squeeze. But my inner cynic tells me the old nuclear guard are going to design around LTBRs patents, leaving enough crumbs to keep the lawyers at bay. In other words, business as usual.