Jeff Berkowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a relative who was studying walkaway-safe, thorium fueled, > gas-cooled pebble bed reactors (just another of many alternatives along the > lines you suggest) way back in the Carter administration. And in all this > time we haven't done anything about it.
Bear in mind that the Fukushima reactors were built during the Carter administration. Even if the pebble bed design had been perfected and implemented by the mid-1980s, most operating reactors today would already have been in place. - Jed
