reactor designs
Almost all nuclear power generation technology is hopelessly primitive. Every reactor design in use depends on heating water into steam, which in turn drives a turbine generator to produce electricity. In essence, they are all just gigantic steam engines with HUGE energy losses in each step of the process of producing electricity. Rather than burning coal or oil, they simply 'burn' fissionable materials. Instead of incremental 'baby steps' to improve a 2 century old technology, we should be seeking to develop an SSNR...a solid state reactor with no moving parts. The science to do so exists...is it perhaps the will we are lacking?
