The Decentralized Future of Nuclear Power | Foundations & Frontiers | Contrary

A deep dive into the new developments unfolding in nuclear power generation.

Nuclear energy has the highest capacity factor of any fuel source, making it the most reliable and most powerful means of producing power by far. It relies on breaking the strongest force known in physics — the strong force — which on its own is over 100 times stronger than the force of electromagnetism. Although nuclear energy has been around for 70 years, and despite its potential to provide relatively cheap and abundant power, it never quite achieved that potential. Fears of nuclear accidents or reactor mismanagement, along with the growing costs of building new nuclear plants, have put the

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