Your goal for standardization certainly has some advantages: First, the arguments about security and safety need only be made once and in one place. Second, controlling costs would certainly be much easier in the ultimate price to the consumer should come down. I note that the cost of uranium usually does not exceed five to 10% of the operating costs to produce electricity, so even though uranium undoubtedly will rise in price as the demand increasingly exceeds supply, the overall cost to the consumer should not be markedly affected.
I understand that the new fusion reactors will come with a virtual guarantee against meltdown. True?
Yea fusion is 100% different than fission and there is no chance of a meltdown. However there can be some radioactive waste involved in some forms of Fusion.