Sabine | These Reactors Solve The Nuclear Safety Problem

Generating electricity via nuclear fission is a great idea, at least in principle. But the risk of nuclear meltdowns causing mass destruction and long-lasting contamination isn’t appealing.

Luckily, a crop of companies are looking to solve this problem by creating subcritical nuclear reactors, which generate power without ever making runaway nuclear reactions possible.


Let’s take a look.

Sabine Hossenfelder
PhD in physics