'and whether or not people would be willing to live next to a tiny reactor (the real problem'
Don't assume it will be as big a problem as what you might believe. I live less than 1 mile away from Three Mile Island, and can see the stacks and buildings from my back yard (taking a tour there is very cool too btw, they let you walk underneath the non-working stacks and boy it is quite the sight to look up through them. Very large). Anyways, the place is f'ing booming! Since I was born (1979 btw, haha), I have seen Etters and Goldsborough blow up big time. New developments are propping up all the time, the high school keeps getting bigger, and they are even putting up a Wal Mart, new strip mall, etc.. Not bad for a nothing-but-woods, hillbilly town eh? I think because nucelar power plants have such a good track record, that people generally ignore they are even there. People know they are safe. And please no jokes about me glowing in the dark.
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'and whether or not people would be willing to live next to a tiny reactor (the real problem' Don't assume it will be as big a problem as what you might believe. I live less than 1 mile away from Three Mile Island, and can see the stacks and buildings from my back yard (taking a tour there is very cool too btw, they let you walk underneath the non-working stacks and boy it is quite the sight to look up through them. Very large). Anyways, the place is f'ing booming! Since I was born (1979 btw, haha), I have seen Etters and Goldsborough blow up big time. New developments are propping up all the time, the high school keeps getting bigger, and they are even putting up a Wal Mart, new strip mall, etc.. Not bad for a nothing-but-woods, hillbilly town eh? I think because nucelar power plants have such a good track record, that people generally ignore they are even there. People know they are safe. And please no jokes about me glowing in the dark.