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A long turbine hall deck seen down its length, the mineral-wool lagging jacket on the nearest main steam line clamped for most of its run but still open and unclamped for its last stretch, catwalk grating receding into soft light.

Reactor Phylogenetics: The Family Tree of Fission Power

Nuclear power's seventy-year record is a lineage anyone can trace: a founder event, a dominant clade, extinct branches with named causes of death, three selection shocks, and a contested resurrection now under construction.

By Brecht Corbeel · September 2, 2026 · 23 min read

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