re: #897 LudwigVanQuixote

You are of course correct. The public needs to be educated on how fission reactions work and they need to understand that it is possible to build a reactor that is incapable of melting down with the new ceramics.

You would also need to fight through those members of congress who are wholly bought and paid for by the oil lobbies.

We’ve been able to make one that can’t melt down since the early 1960’s.
The book on Project Orion that is mentioned above describes one. It has a fast negative temperature coefficient. They tested it by cutting off the cooling water; it shut down immediately, and did not melt.