Wyoming site of new nuclear power plant from Bill Gates' TerraPower
"The exact location of the new reactor is still up in the air." 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'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'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 'safe.' 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'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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...</a>