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There are designs that are perfectly safe. i.e. the pebble bed reactor. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki

• nobodyandproud 5y ago
  Looking at the link, it looks like it poses its own challenges: >The most common criticism of pebble-bed reactors is that encasing the fuel in combustible graphite poses a hazard. When the graphite burns, fuel material could be carried away in smoke from the fire. These sound like solvable engineering and process challenges, though, so perhaps in the less anti-nuclear climate we’ll have the will to actually make it work.