You know, if we hadn&#x27;t had such a &quot;Nukes are bad, m&#x27;kay&quot; moment in the 70s, we wouldn&#x27;t be limping along with so many old, past-their-prime plants now, and there&#x27;d have been more incentive to continue refining designs for nuclear power.  What plants we have are less efficient than they could be, and are pushing up against their designed lifetimes.<p>Damn hippies