reactors

I really wish the government would put more funding and research into things like thorium reactors and other types of reactors.

Not all fission reactors use the same cycles to turn heat from the nuclear reaction into usable power.

Light water reactors have an impressive safety record, and the modern versions aren't susceptible to the problems that led to TMI, but inherently self-moderating reactors are just really aesthetically pleasant.

In the US, spent fuel from commercial reactors currently cannot be re-processed at all, due to proliferation concerns.

Also, Trains are run by electricity which can be created through nuclear energy (Thorium reactors in the future etc.).

Helium-cooled reactors may be constrained by shortages of helium, which is rather rare and difficult to extract on Earth.

Now if you can answer that question with nuclear reactors or renewables of any kind, then your logic probably applies.

Instead, reactors are designed to be subcritical considering only prompt neutrons and then be made critical via the remaining delayed neutrons.

It's an isolated area, and the test reactors were many miles apart, just in case.

All of the nuclear reactors in Japan are shut down now, and the financial interests would like to see them turned on.

We know what to do with the waste: burn it up in nuclear reactors.

There have been several other fatal accidents involving nuclear material but not involving reactors.

Debating the pros and cons of advanced designs is dumb and accepts the enviros false claim that current BWR or PWR light water reactors are "unsafe".

(I was just talking to an engineer who services nuclear reactors for a living about this.) Most of the spent fuel rods are left sitting in storage pools ("wet storage") next to the reactor.

Reactors are supposed to be operated with enough margin that this won't ever happen (which isn't that difficult), but it sounds like they were deliberately operating right on the limit, which scares me.