EM2 technology is designed to be inherently safe and to automatically shut down using the natural laws of physics.
This style of reactor can be designed to be inherently safe.
But don't labour under the misapprehension that green choices are inherently safe.
The tests found the devices to be an "inherently safe and accurate means" of determining body temperatures in infants.
These are supposedly 10 times safer, but still fall far short of the "inherently safe" designs sought by nuclear critics.
An inherently safe process has a low level of danger even if things go wrong.
There is a common belief that over-the-counter medicines are inherently safe.
The aim should be to ensure that such products are inherently safe and do not require constant parental supervision.
But being commonplace does not mean they are inherently safe to use.
Advanced varieties of several of these reactors have the potential to be inherently safe.