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Please, John Oliver, Please Talk to a Real Nuclear Scientist (forbes.com/sites/jamesconca)
20 points by godelski on Aug 25, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Having worked in the nuclear industry and watched the show, it's clear mob NIMBYs, politics and govt mismanagement have made us less safe than a central, well-managed nuclear waste facility (either for-profit, PPP or govt not run by current DOE) in the middle of Nevada. Liquid radioactive waste concentration is also a necessary and complicated process that needs to happen to make it viable.

Mass-manufactured energy solutions like Taylor Wilson proposed in a TED talk are really great idea as reactors are too often complicated and labor-intensive. They need to be less than several gigabucks, insurable and designed for simple, fail-safe and regenerable scram operation in an almost un-attended, remote-factory-monitored configuration.


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