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>>51136818
Yes fission works but only when it's mass produced like france did in the 60s and 70s.

The problem is that politicians are retards, for example the apollo program machinery like the command module had more capabilities than the space shuttle and was cheaper.

Literally the tech for going to the moon was cheaper than the fucking space shuttle but the problem was that the apollo tech was not reusable so it needed a constant demand so providers were able to survive so it needed mass production.

The shuttle only needed mass ammount of shekels of maintance but not constant orders.

The entire nuclear industry has this problem, if politicians were to built 60, 4th generaton reactors it would probably be cheaper than expected due to economies of scale.

Instead they will use 7 different techs because they are fucking imbeciles, the fact that we don't have shit like thorium reactors despite people like edward teller telling to invest in that more than half a century ago says a lot.

We built reactors that were literally prototypes in the west and improved those a lot and when we finally had the ones that could be mass produced and were safer we abandoned the whole thing.

Only china is building those and they were literally developed in places like leafland that never built them.