Mats,
Although the LFTR has fundamental advantages, the moving pebble bed
reactor is much further along and will be cheaper to build. That you
can have lots of small units scattered around much eases the power
distribution problem too.
"A proposal to construct two 600 MWe high-temperature gas-cooled
reactors (HTRs)
<http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Ruijin-HTR-plant-proposal-progresses-2704154.html>
at Ruijin city in China's Jiangxi province has passed a preliminary
feasibility review, China Nuclear Engineering Corporation (CNEC)
recently announced.
The Jiangxi provincial development and reform commission has already
given the go-ahead to begin preliminary work at Ruijin and construction
of the reactors is expected to start in 2017, with grid connection in 2021
The design of the Ruijin HTRs is based on the smaller demonstration
HTR-PM under construction at Shidaowan near Weihai city in Shandong
province. That plant will initially comprise twin HTR-PM reactor modules
driving a single 210 MWe steam turbine. Construction started in late
2012. CNEC said civil construction work on the HTR-PM is nearing
completion and equipment installation would soon begin. The
demonstration unit is scheduled to start commercial operation in late 2017."
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/04/china-moving-towards-approving-dozen.html
