[gaucho]

Cool - From what I remember pebble reactors are inherently "safe" reactors that can't suffer a meltdown because they never get hot enough. They also don't require "stabilization" like the control rods used in conventional reactor designs. The pebble design also means that much more of the nuclear fuel is actually consumed, meaning that there is less "spent" fuel, like the fuel rods in conventional reactors. And it's much harder (impossible?) to try to use these reactors to manufacture weapons grade materials.

[Feral51]

Bump for Chimera's input about "inherently safe."