[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I’m all for it as long as we use the more advanced and modern designs that fail safe.

One very good advance in nuke power are pebble bed reactors. They're design incorporates a passive safety mechanism that greatly reduces the need for redundant active controls. From what I've heard, they would be practically impossible to meltdown, even if you were trying to do so.

[Ditto]

I don't know where people get this idea the Pebble Beds are some magic answer. Read this article to see the real world experience and some very serious safety issues with them.

In addition, South Africa has pulled the plug on the pebble bed development program after blowing a lot of tax payer money. The entire program was shut down.

The concept may have some potential, but at this point, there are some major technical issues that need to be overcome as well as finding a way to make the design commercially viable. One thing for sure, it is not some magic bullet.