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Will any of these work in the third world in a way that's geopolitically acceptable? The US frowns at small third world countries having access to nuclear reactors.


Post-industrialization "third world" countries like South Korea and Brazil already have nuclear power. Pre-industrialization third world countries have trivial carbon footprints. By the time they're politically stable enough to build a functioning power grid with enough demand to justify a nuclear plant, it's generally no longer a problem for them to have one.

Also, what does that have anything to do with using them in first world countries?


Small nations don't have to run them. In some places you just have Russia, China, US, South Korea run them.




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