Well my friend, you need to rethink the nuclear plant thing. The plants that use heavy water are the most dangerous thing to the USA and human race. They can not be shutdown fast. They will explode and take us with them. They use grid power for their cooling pumps and other power requirements. The lost of grid to these would be disastrous. The idiots that designed these plants said that they could not self power because if they went down they would have no power for the emergency items. I ASK: Why not
self power and switch over to grid power if a plant shutdown occurs. That way if the grid shuts down it will not affect the plants. They will be self-sustaining.
We need to force those idiots to redesign their failsafe system to be self-powered primarily and use the grid for backup. Every plant can be converted in 6mo to a year if given priority.
I’m all for SAFE nuclear. I agree with you, that safety systems are critical and should be very well designed. That’s one of the reasons, I think approval needs to stay at the federal level.