China has plugged in its first domestically-built nuclear reactor with hopes to become more energy-independent and to export its design across the globe.
MSRs are an interesting technology which should be pursued, but regular pressurized-water reactors like Hualong One or Three Mile Island are a proven technology that can be built and operated very safely.
Three Mile Island was blown out of proportion by the media, it never released harmful radiation. The meltdown was due to operator error, not the design. Fukushima was a boiling-water reactor which has its faults but is also generally a safe design. Its failure came about because it was built in an earthquake/tsunami zone and all the safety measures were compromised -- for example all the backup generators and batteries were in the basement, which flooded with seawater. Chernobyl was an unstable design from the start because it was also designed to produce plutonium for bombs, and then some idiots decided to carry out a risky test in the middle of the night during a shift change. Edit: read Atomic Accidents for more on how and why nuclear power plants have failed. It's a really interesting and entertaining read.
I don't know much about the physics of Tesla's energy transmission plans, but IIRC it either wouldn't work or it would've ionized the entire Earth's atmosphere if it was built to scale. Other people have proposed transmitting power from space to Earth with microwaves, but I don't know how well that would work. And I'd feel much safer living next to a nuclear power plant on the ground than having one fly over me in a rocket to the moon.
MSRs are an interesting technology which should be pursued, but regular pressurized-water reactors like Hualong One or Three Mile Island are a proven technology that can be built and operated very safely.
Three Mile Island was blown out of proportion by the media, it never released harmful radiation. The meltdown was due to operator error, not the design. Fukushima was a boiling-water reactor which has its faults but is also generally a safe design. Its failure came about because it was built in an earthquake/tsunami zone and all the safety measures were compromised -- for example all the backup generators and batteries were in the basement, which flooded with seawater. Chernobyl was an unstable design from the start because it was also designed to produce plutonium for bombs, and then some idiots decided to carry out a risky test in the middle of the night during a shift change. Edit: read Atomic Accidents for more on how and why nuclear power plants have failed. It's a really interesting and entertaining read.
I don't know much about the physics of Tesla's energy transmission plans, but IIRC it either wouldn't work or it would've ionized the entire Earth's atmosphere if it was built to scale. Other people have proposed transmitting power from space to Earth with microwaves, but I don't know how well that would work. And I'd feel much safer living next to a nuclear power plant on the ground than having one fly over me in a rocket to the moon.