[abeppu]

> future residential nuclear plants

What does this mean? Are you imagining a future where individual houses have their own nuclear plants? Or where nuclear plant workers live on-site?

I'm get the argument that we should have more nuclear power, and that some future reactors may be small, but I don't understand the expectation that they would be close enough to residences to pipe steam.

[dietr1ch]

There has been a couple small scale nuclear power projects for a while now,

- https://newatlas.com/energy/oklo-aurora-nuclear-microreactor... - https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33896110/tiny-nucl... - https://www.nuscalepower.com/products/nuscale-power-module

They target from home to residential scale. I hope they are eventually a thing.

[wafflemaker]

In many places in the world people don't live on ranches or in 1000 m² houses, but in 80-150 m² twin houses or even flats.

In such tighter conditions, you can easily have enough inhabitants per km² that it would justify building small mobile nuclear reactors.

Who would like to live next to a reactor if it can melt down? Well, you have reactors using fuel pellets locked in marbles that due to their diameter can never meltdown.