I like the potential offered through Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors. No high pressure water in the process, which reduces levelized costs, footprint and elimiates risk for the type of fallout that the public has come to associate with nuclear power. Also, depending on fuel selection it can also reduce the amount of plutonium that is produced to the point where it is considered "non-proliferating" and the waste products have half lives in the hundreds of years as opposed to tens of thousands.
In my opinion, it is the only technology with a short term delivery window that has the potential to seriously replace electricty from conventional sources (coal, nat gas, hydro).
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