[WOSG]

The best nuclear technology hasnt even been built yet.

There is an actinide-destroying lead-bismuth-cooled reactor design out of Argonne national lab that would perform awesomely. Avoids problems of proliferation by having a sealed core, feeds a brayton cycle (use C02) turbine. could be heated up more that PWRs for efficiency, but also manages efficiency equal or better than the gas thermal reactors (like pebble-bed PBMR design). better burnup rates than any other technology too, depending on core material used. IMHO a winner ... on paper, which is all they've done so far.

A big tragedy that Clinton cut our nuclear research programs down to nothing, and we cant actually build the thing. It would make the nukes we built in the 1970s look like horse and buggy imho.

[Regulator]

I haven't been up to Argonne for about 10 years...they've always been the forgotten lab, like Idaho. They seem to be a little cash starved, unlike Livermore and Los Alamos.

Sounds like a nice machine. Hope they get to do something with it.