Despite assurances from Bill Gates-backed TerraPower, some financial experts contend its Wyoming project could be a “financial disaster.”: NuScale project failed due to ever-increasing costs while relying on an adaption of known tech, the Terrapower reactor is entirely untested.

2 comments

1. The same expert that predicted the demise of NoScale’s CFPP is predicting the demise of Terrapower’s reactor project

2. So it won’t work because it’s new and complex, and new and complex things always fail.

   It’s about as insightful as a business analyst with a 90% success rate in forecasting that startups will fail.

   Posted this on r/uninsurable by accident (instead of r/energy) and received a permanent ban.