Are Thorium Reactors Expensive?
Are Thorium Reactors Expensive? Are thorium reactors expensive? The capital costs of thorium reactors would be lower than conventional nuclear reactors; a 1 gigawatt (GW) thorium power plant would cost at most an estimated $780 million in comparison to capital costs currently of $1.1 billion per GW for a uranium-fueled reactor. How expensive are thorium