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Also worth checking out: https://anchor.fm/chris15401/episodes/Existing-Nuclear-and-Imaginary-Nuclear-feat--Mark-Nelson-eibgl9 https://anchor.fm/chris15401/epis

• acidburnNSA 6y ago
  I loved this episode. It resonated with all I learned in writing the history page. There's almost no type of reactor that hasn't been tried, and so hoping that some new kind of reactor is the answer to all problems in nuclear is a bit misguided.
  • mncharity 6y ago
    > There's almost no type of reactor that hasn't been tried, and so hoping that some new kind of reactor is the answer to all problems in nuclear is a bit misguided. Reading the history and economics pages, and searching for hopeful paths forward, I thought of the NASA-SpaceX partnership. Where it wasn't that the component technologies had never been tried, or weren't known, but that company and systems optimized for atypical objectives might find an order of magnitude to pick up, and maybe soon two.