"Passive nuclear safety is a safety feature of a nuclear reactor that does not require operator actions or electronic feedback in order to shut down safely in the event of a particular type of emergency (usually overheating resulting from a loss of coolant or loss of coolant flow). Such reactors tend to rely more on the engineering of components such that their predicted behaviour according to known laws of physics would slow, rather than accelerate, the nuclear reaction in such circumstances. This is in contrast to older-yet-common reactor designs, where the natural tendency for the reaction was to accelerate rapidly from increased temperatures, such that either electronic feedback or operator triggered intervention was necessary to prevent damage to the reactor. The term "walk away" safety is also used to describe this feature."
In a world people are irrational, where religion ignorance rules... where people in the most miserable places insist to have 4 or 5 children...
You will think I'm inhumane for say it, but certains populations are almost like rats, grow a loit with more food and when populations reach to hight and food runs out they turn canibals. Give food, vaccines and medicines, creating more surviving and keeping or even increasing bith rates, and you will have a big future problem with even more deaths.
Food help and vaccines help without birth control can be terrible in future perpectives. Now look some cultures that saw birth control as a sin... so we have a huge mess due deep ignorance.
It's a racing food, desperate trying to find more ways to produce food to a growing out of controll population.
Europe now opened doors to millions of middle age people, religious fanatics or religion freaks. I know not muslins are this way, but a good percentage are and they plan to have many kids as possible and change Europe into a Islan nation.
If they get nuclear power in easy ways....
Intelligent people have few or no kids today, while stupid people and middle age people have many kids.
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Originally Posted by sendler
GenIV nuclear needs to have molten salt cooling for the reactor and cooling pools so that it is 100% walk away safe. And we need to be pragmatic enough (and be able to do math) to choose it. It is the only way to soften the coming crash. Buy us enough time (200 years) to get the population back down to levels that can be sustained without immense fossil energy. Build a completely new social system.
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