The fact of the matter is that nuclear power has the best safety record on the books. You can’t make it blow up like an A-bomb, as the reactors simply cannot create an efficient enough fission reaction or create the reaction quickly enough. There is a wonderful place specially built to store the spent fuel rods, but the hippies successfully shut that facility down. So where is the spent fuel stored now. At the reactor site.

The type of reactor explained in this article is called a Pebble Bed Modular Reactor. This is the next gen in nuclear reactors. They use very small amounts of uranium and the uranium is safe to handle due to the “pebble” coating. They are safe as they cannot meltdown and don’t have the problem of steam explosion vulnerability. They are at risk to an outside explosion, which makes me believe that there will not be a “home” based reactor anytime soon, but any industrial sized reactor would have a reinforced concrete containment structure. The spent fuel is also much more difficult to reuse, but this lowers their nuclear weapons proliferation. Plus most spent fuel from reactors are transmuted and used in different types of reactors. Kinda like recycling nuclear waste.

Anyway…this is a topic I think people need to research and discuss to form an educated opinion on. Try not to let bias and social pressure, or even misinformation colour your opinion. Do the research with an open mind and use logic to guide you. Don’t drink the Kool-aid. For an easy to follow everyman’s guide to physics, check out “Physics for Future Presidents”. Peace.

Look up “passive reactor” and you’ll find out that it is physically impossible for a modern reactor to explosively melt down.