CNET, July 5, 2021.
“Nuclear energy is far safer than its reputation implies. It's also clean and reliable -- yet power plants are being phased out around the world.”
…X-Energy, one of several companies building safer and less expensive "Gen IV" nuclear reactors, hopes to reverse that trend. X-Energy's pebble-bed designs run on nuclear fuel encased in up to 220,000 billiard-sized graphite balls -- which the company says makes a meltdown physically impossible….”