title: Inherently safe reactors and a second nuclear era.
abstract: The Swedish PIUS reactor and the German-American small modular high-temperature gas-cooled reactor are inherently safe-that is, their safety relies not upon intervention of humans or of electromechanical devices but on immutable principles of physics and chemistry. A second nuclear era may require commercialization and deployment of such inherently safe reactors, even though existing light-water reactors appear to be as safe as other well-accepted sources of central electricity, particularly hydroelectric dams.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Weinberg
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Spiewak