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Actually Texas makes a great argument for more, smaller and distributed reactors. Micro molten salt reactors make a lot of sense if looked at rationally. Can

• acdha 6y ago
  That’s a different question. The real underlying issue in Texas was that every producer had an incentive to be cheaper but not to winterize, because they’d immediately see wins from being cheaper on the marketplace and could gamble on going years without a winter failure — by which time the person who made that call might not even be working there any more. When talking on this kind of scale about a system level failures, the social issues are going to dominate unless it’s something like a fire-and-forget space probe. If you want to see nuclear succeed, the first thing I’d be thinking about is how to ensure that someone doesn’t cut safety to boost their profit margin, accounting for possible future regulatory capture and austerity budgets. Since nuclear is never even going to be within one order of magnitude as distributed as wind/solar, I’d especially think about what would prevent some unscrupulous CEO from pocketing the difference comfortable in the knowledge that their family doesn’t live anywhere nearby.