Maybe the old guard, and its commitment to PWR, had to die off before society could try alternatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor#Reactor_typ

Maybe the old guard, and its commitment to PWR, had to die off before society could try alternatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor#Reactor_types https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor#Reactor_types The advocates of PWR (and adjacent) actively suppressed all the alternatives. For their own reasons. Like military and civilian dual use technologies. We have new reasons. Like finance, flexibility, and tech. We can and should do what we want, unbeholden to the founders of nuclear age.