Microreactors

You 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. For