More research is planned into safer reactors.

I'd love to see us move from 99% safe reactors to 99.9%.

We don't think it's possible to have what you call an inherently safe reactor, a reactor that cannot fail in any situation.

Research is being done to lessen the known problems of current reactor technology by developing automated and passively safe reactors.

That is, rather than licensing individual reactors, the regulatory agency certified a particular design and its construction process to produce safe reactors.

The result is an efficient, low-maintenance, very safe reactor with inexpensive, standardized fuel.

Scientists hope that it would pave the way for practical reactors producing a new kind of nuclear energy - safe, cheap and nearly limitless.

I would like to know who the engineer was who built a safer reactor.

With admiration, he says the Japanese in 10 years will probably start selling an inherently safe reactor, sparking a nuclear renaissance.

It's a safe reactor and has operated for many years without a problem.