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Old reactor designs are built around "nothing bad will ever happen" new designs are built around lessons learned with the ones that did fail.
They include more passive safety devices and designs, less pumps, fewer valves, fewer moving parts in general, more instrumentation to warn of trouble.
The most interesting design is the reactor flood reservoir.
The idea is they build the reactor kind of under ground and build a sealed lake on top of it. If it goes bad the reactor containment dome is flooded, thus no melt down, no steam or hydrogen explosions.
All that could be avoided with molten salt reactors.
If California wants to pay 50 cents a kwh for solar power and wind power that's been transmitted half way across the country I say let them.
They are going to make west texas and eastern NM wind tycoons the next mega billionaires buying all that wind power.
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