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boiling water with radioactive rocks to spin a turbine, terrifyingly elegant.
means electricity generated by splitting atoms to release heat, which makes steam, which turns a generator, same as coal minus the smoke plus the anxiety.
from grew out of 1940s weapons research; the US Navy's push for submarine reactors under Hyman Rickover proved fission could be tamed for peaceful use, and 1951's EBR-I first lit a lightbulb with atomic heat.
death ratelower per terawatt-hour than coal, oil, even solar rooftop falls
fuel densityone uranium pellet equals a ton of coal
waste volumeall US spent fuel ever fits on one football field
chernobyl causea safety test gone wrong, not the reactor design alone