Nuclear in Your Backyard?
4th June 2026
ou might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear microreactors, by contrast, could sit on land the size of a football field and power a whole town.
However, after decades of fraught relationships between the nuclear industry and communities in many parts of the U.S., building these tiny reactors requires reckoning with the complex history of nuclear technology and rebuilding public trust.
Microreactor technology for use in towns or cities hasn’t been developed yet, but many researchers have been building the case for its use.
Good luck with that. Between the Mountain of Red Tape imposed by modern micromanagement government and the dementia of modern Leftists activism, I will bet you it won’t happen, if an all, until we are all dead.
And of course it would do absolutely no good to point out that U.S. Navy ships have been running nuclear reactors that would fit into a Chipotle (and have never had a shred of trouble with them) for over sixty years.