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I'm more afraid of having nuclear power plants now that we no longer have a thriving industry to support innovation and technological progress in the field. Fro
by futhey 9y ago
I'm more afraid of having nuclear power plants now that we no longer have a thriving industry to support innovation and technological progress in the field. From my understanding, we stopped innovating in fission power plant design decades ago.
- voidlogic 9y ago>we stopped innovating in fission power plant design decades ago. No work on new better designed as continued, we just stopped building many of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
- flubert 9y agoDon't forget things like Small Modular Reactors: https://www.energy.gov/ne/nuclear-reactor-technologies/small-modular-nuclear-reactors https://www.energy.gov/ne/nuclear-reactor-technologies/small... http://www.nuscalepower.com/ http://www.nuscalepower.com/