>>1971781The problem with Nuclear is that its:
1. Strictly not civilian tech due proliferation FUD
2. Therefore smaller designs are not tested
3. Therefore the amount of people who had real work experience and craftmanship over the reactors is miniscule
If proliferation FUD wasn't around, there would most likely have been some civilian attempts at it in the 70s or 80s. It might even have panned out for more exotic purposes like global shipping, and maybe bigger planes.
But we don't live in that world. We live in a world where the most important thing is for the nuclear power plants to produce weapon material, and experimentation isn't being done since that could lead to proliferation.
