It feels like every few months there’s a new tech “revolution” being hyped up as the future. Besides AI, what’s the most overhyped trend in tech right now? For me, it’s the constant buzz around the metaverse.

    • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      Molten salt sounds like a terrible design for modular, the whole problem is if it loses power it freezes solid, you’d want a huge one with tons of backup imho.

      I’d imagine a tiny pebble bed or traveling wave, something fairly inert and safe.

      Edit: I guess that’s the point, give someone a reactor, if they screw it up it safely freezes dead. Problem solved.

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      There have been others building a prototype or research reactor, but the M in SMR also stands for mass-produced and nobody got even close to that.