Wyoming site of new nuclear power plant from Bill Gates' TerraPower
&quot;The exact location of the new reactor is still up in the air.&quot; Yah? Good luck. Siting these things is hard.<p>There are some papers about how experts are worse at predicting the success of a nuclear reactor than members of the general public. I have the impression that project timelines don&#x27;t give the socialization phase enough time and then, when it is constricted, the phase will sprawl.<p>On one hand, there are a lot of folks who are quite sure they&#x27;ve settled on a set of good techniques to manage nuclear waste. On the other hand, individual communities that might host nuclear sites keep not being convinced that the selected techniques are &#x27;safe.&#x27; The environment is such that the US has not been able to officially designate a site for waste[1] (or settled on a plan to reprocess waste or agree to a framework wherein it could participate in a coalition of nuclear states to...).<p>You can&#x27;t make all the people happy all of the time but our inability to keep anyone happy any of the time distresses me.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...</a>