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The U.S. remains without a long-term solution for storing radioactive waste, safety regulators are under pressure from Congress to approve designs and there are serious questions about industry claims that the smaller reactors are efficient, safe and reliable, said Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Plus, Lyman said, “the likelihood that those are going to be deployable and instantly 100% reliable right out of the gate is just not consistent with the history of nuclear power development. And so it’s a much riskier bet.”

Who would want one of these in their neighborhood? These big data centers aren't built out in the middle of nowhere, and even if they were, suburban creep would soon surround them.

[marktwain]

Who would want one of these in their neighborhood?

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I would! Cheap reliable power. If the Chinese shut down the grid, the neighborhood would still have cheap, reliable power, without the need for a pile of coal or a natural gas pipeline.

The measure of a civilization is how much power it can produce per person.

[MSF BU]

Suburban creep? Not in the future of the United States unless the demographic situation reverses.