re: #587 Kosh’s Shadow

That’s just it; if they are operating properly (coolant flowing), they will continue the chain reaction, but if they get too hot, they stop. Thus they cannot melt down.
(BTW, at least one safe design dates back to the early 1960’s or maybe earlier.)

Both GE and Westinghouse have cookie cutter designs approved for production right now with the NRC. They could build these things by the dozens for a fraction of the cost of what it cost to build one in the 1960s and 70s. Problem is, the enviros and the wackos toss lawsuit after lawsuit at them when they get the greenlight to build one. If we removed those obstacles, we could have over 75% of our electric being generated by nukes in a little over 25 years.

We could also be building a whole bunch of super clean gas fired plants all over the place as we have proven reserves of natural gas that will last the next couple of hundred years. Natural gas is almost as clean as Nukes. But we don’t do that either. Man are we stupid!