Two words: Thorium reactor.
Please explain how you would build a shiny new thorium reactor with 238Pu production capability on a budget competitive with the existing DoE 237Np -> 238Pu transmutation process in an existing research reactor.
The original post was two words. Okay, cute. But then the subsequent "explanation" was four words.
There should have been at least a sentence or two of explanation. At the minimum there could have been a link to Wikipedia. That's common courtesy.
Most people don't come to HN to spend decades learning obscure things, very slowly, from Zen masters.
"...LFTRs produce very little plutonium, around 15 kg per gigawatt-year of electricity (this is the output of a single large reactor over a year). This plutonium is also mostly Pu-238..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...
In a LFTR the fuels are dissolved in liquid salts, so the downside is it may be very difficult to separate out the Pu-238 for use.
I have very little knowledge of the science here, I'm just not sure what all I'm missing.