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Originally Posted by Azure
Is the nuclear power the US would build right now unsafe?
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The US would have to build a reactor to determine that. The US hasn't built a new reactor site since Clinton was in office. 1996 saw the last new site for a reactor to be built and go online, at Watt's Bar, Tennessee. The last expansion of a site to add a reactor was also at Watt's Bar, and the 2nd reactor went on line in 2016. Twenty years between reactors. That says a lot.
Whether their safe is open to interpretation. I personally don't think any reactor that has potential to go into meltdown as a safe system. If the core cannot be dumped and immediately halt the reaction, I don't think the system is safe. The design of our current reactors are such that a meltdown is a possible state, and we've seen the threat of them happen around the globe, including in the United States. I would prefer a better, safer design that could eliminate the meltdown risk. Molten salt reactors provide for that safeguard. They invest in this, and I would say they would be safe.