Those key issues involve substantial solutions to cost material improvements in safety and ongoing maintenance and safe storage. N ext generation nuclear technology, as led by small modular reactors smrs are nuclear fission reactors that are now being designed to take the scale of nuclear plants down significantly and enable innovative features... See more
Andy Kessler on the other hand, states that innovation on the computers' and digital fronts (citing Moore's Law amongst other things) is not something you should easily discard as non-innovative. He goes back to the discovery of oil in Philadelphia during the 19th century and the creation of a massive industry in the following decades.
Fission occurs when a neutron comes in contact with a larger nucleus (say, Uranium-235). After absorbing the neutron, U-235 turns into the violently unstable U-236 and immediately splits into two smaller nuclei, releasing a tremendous amount of energy. Additional neutrons are also released from the fission reaction, subsequently striking other... See more