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U.S. Air Force Selects Fast Microreactor for Nuclear Power Pilot
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This is very good. Oklo is specifically aiming to provide power with minimal maintenance to remote areas that otherwise wouldn't have power. This contract is a very good testbed for the technology before being deployed to remote areas.
There have been research reactor that have been run successfully that cannot meltdown like Fukushima, Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island. Oklo is a fast reactor of similar design. Such reactor designs often will cool down and the nuclear reaction stop even when completely losing all coolant and power. They fundamentally cannot get into a positive feedback loop like an reactors that are have been run commercially. I'm unsure how long Oklo's nuclear waste is dangerous, but some fast reactors can actually be used to burn up waste from other reactors making. Their waste is dangerous for a few hundred years, instead of the tens of thousands of years of other reactors.