Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators
I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s a bad reactor but I looked at the application and it wasn&#x27;t a good application.  (The NRC says the same)<p>There was a large amount of hand-wringing about the risk of avalanches and other natural disasters that were extremely low probability.<p>They were skimpy on interesting details about the reactor such as &quot;What do you do if the sodium coolant catches on fire?&quot;  (e.g. sodium burns in water,  sodium burns in air, sodium burns in <i>carbon dioxide</i>)  There are good answers to that in the U.S. and Russian experience.  They don&#x27;t draw on that experience to show they can solve it.<p>If they fix the application and submit it again it could get approved.