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If you mean Yucca Mountain, that was an issue where Obama just formalized the informal shutdown of the mountain. A previously unknown fault was discovered in the mountain after construction began, one that made its worthless for it's intended purpose, and construction was stopped. Obama just...

Probably. The ban on reprocessing spent fuel is part of what makes nuclear power so hard to make viable in the US.

No, I know about the early attempts to put them in cars during the 50's/60's. I'm well versed in engineering fuck-ups from watching so many engineering disaster docs as a kid. History covered this like 15 years ago.

I am well aware of the potential of these reactors, I did a research paper about them in my old college program. The swapping out of cores every other year is the biggest issue, because you will run through fuel, and spent fuel storage space, a lot faster than most reactors. These things have...

NuScale's SMRs are pretty neat, but talking about putting reactors in cars is just dumb. These things are the size of a extra-long semi-trailor, not exactly tiny. The biggest issue with these reactors right now is the cores have to be swapped out every other year. That's a not inconsiderable...