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Good discussion, but the 3rd speaker was a bit disappointing. Don't bring your standard Rotary Club speech to a conference of specialists. We *all* already know pretty much everything in your presentation. But I would have been far more intersted to hear a *detailed* description of what Terra Power is doing right now... how far along are you with design and prototyping? How many customers have you got lined up? Where? What applications? Why is it beter than LFTR? (Etc...)
Of course Bo Kong, the oil and gas man, would cast aspersions on the governance and safety record of Chinese nuclear while the crowd laughs along with him, while Amory Lovins lies incessantly with every second word out of his mouth. Meanwhile the nuclear release at Fukushima killed zero people. 1 person died from falling debris at the reactor site, 1500 died as a result of the _unnecessary evacuation_ and many thousands will have shortened lifespans from the stress of becoming a refugee within one's own country or commit suicide. The tsunami and earthquake itself claimed nearly 50000. Even if there was a Fukushima event every single year at every single Chinese reactor with evacuations killing 1500 each time it would not come close to the death toll from coal, oil and gas burning in China or the rest of the world. There are 30000000 people that die each year from the consequences of outdoor air pollution from combustion according to World Health Organisation data. www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/27/more-than-million-died-due-air-pollution-china-one-year . Of the 3 million, 1 million or a full third of the world's deaths from air pollution is killed by its coal, oil and gas combustion in China. The irony is so thick here that Bo Kong should be able to fashion a rope and hang himself with it.
