How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a mile deep

Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by LorenPechtel on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:11PM (#41384429)

You need to provision for the worst case, not for the best case.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by pydry on Friday August 30, 2024 @05:09AM (#41398958)

Worst case scenarios can be provisioned for by storing and burning hydrogen.

The roundtrip cost of electricity generated this way is expensive (it's ~50% efficient) but even then it is still cheaper than the cost of baseload nuclear power electricity.

Give up already.

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