I think nuclear power would help our country greatly, as long as we avoid incidents like Chernobyl.
these are small scale reactors that probably cannot melt.
I can see them being used in some cases, and in some countries, and for some workloads.
for example would I use one of these in Redmond for a microsoft data center, no probably not energy is cheap in that area of washington and there are nimbys
would I use one of these to mine bitcoin in the middle of a desert or in an arctic area with no population,
or if I were Musky somewhere on Mars, oh yes you betcha.
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My understanding of the aftermath of Chernobyl was that the flaw in the RBMK reactors was worked out. Seeing how things are these days, bureaucrats, technocrats, politicians, and/or diversity hires will ensure we’d have another event on the scale of Chernobyl, or much, much worse.
Russian reactors used liquid graphite and were inherently unsafe. As they got hotter, they got more reactive. As they got more reactive, they got hotter.....
That is the trick, isn't it? Proper vigilance is never maintained.