[pjscott]

This isn't a one-man project, and nuclear engineers are not idiots. The worst-case scenario here is that the sodium coolant gets out somehow and reacts with water, causing a chemical explosion and breaching containment. Sodium-cooled reactors are not a new technology, and there are well-developed methods of making such disaster scenarios vanishingly unlikely, as well as ensuring that the side-effects if they do happen would be minimal.

So yes, you are missing something.

[thornad]

Microsoft was not a one man company either. And the only thing that could go wrong was...errrrr...StuxNet ?

[pjscott]

Software people do not have anything like the track record of safety that modern nuclear engineers do. The two are not directly comparable.