[edblarney]

CANDU reactors in Canada, I think are designed to be run by nobody at all.

They require heavy water to keep the reaction going. No heavy water, it just cools down.

If anything 'breaks' - no heavy water, no chain reaction.

I'm grossly oversimplifying, but you get the idea.

I suggest that if we actually put our minds to it, we could develop a kind of 'dumb reactor' that didn't require any kind of intervention at all, other than maintenance.

[CmdrSprinkles]

Already done and has been for a while. Here is a quick wiki article on the subject/an example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small,_sealed,_transportable,_...

Plenty more can be found if you have access to read actual articles and not just wikipedia