Whence nuclear power in the 21st century

There is an amazing wealth of activities in the current US nuclear energy marketplace: Well over a dozen new designs for reactors are currently being discussed, and at least five small modular reactor design applications or pre-applications have been submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Meanwhile, the boom in AI-related data centers appears to have created a large new demand for nuclear power. But whether a nuclear renaissance actually occurs in the coming decade or two will depend, to a significant degree, on the answers to three fundamental questions: Are the new designs safer than their predecessors? Do the new designs lead to changes in how one will have to deal with nuclear waste? And do these new designs raise additional (or new) questions regarding nuclear weapons proliferation

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