Disclaimer: I used to worked for a US nuclear engineering consultancy which wound down in the late 90's because there was insufficient new or existing business; it was sad to see carbon-heavy technologies be pushed with FUD and a lack of innovation in terms of comprehensive safety and cost reduction. It seems that prior, big, expensive designs (PWR, BWR) reactors are inherently less safe due to high-pressures and massive complexity (just look at the control systems operations manuals Vol I..XVIII). It would be good for ventures to try both the "tiny fission masses printed in wells on a chip" and the molten salt approaches in order to deliver far safer, mass-produced fission gen sets.
Disclaimer: I used to worked for a US nuclear engineering consultancy which wound down in the late 90's because there was insufficient new or existing business; it was sad to see carbon-heavy technologies be pushed with FUD and a lack of innovation in terms of comprehensive safety and cost reduction. It seems that prior, big, expensive designs (PWR, BWR) reactors are inherently less safe due to high-pressures and massive complexity (just look at the control systems operations manuals Vol I..XVIII). It would be good for ventures to try both the "tiny fission masses printed in wells on a chip" and the molten salt approaches in order to deliver far safer, mass-produced fission gen sets.