The state of the art in nuclear energy safety could still be improved a whole lot more as I explained in great detail earlier in this episode. But it's already the safest form of power generation in existence and we should not hesitate to build more generation three nuclear plants. Going forward, we need to design fully automated reactors which don't rely on human operators at all or have big control rooms full of confusing instrumentation. The final problem with nuclear power I want to address in this episode is the time horizon required to bring new nuclear power generation online at the scale we're going to need it. Sadly, large bespoke public works projects are something we're just not as good at as we once were

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