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Comment by noetic_techy

I've seen the MIT lecture that presented this. Here are the main hurdles:

1) Estimated $40 billion USD need to build a test reactor.

2) Not enough FLiBe fluid (Low-Z fluid) on the planet for the reaction chamber. Would need large scale manufacturing.

Source: https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4

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