Re: "It's only a matter of time before an accident occurs involving an errant aircraft."
"In 8 decades of reactor operations not one has occured."
Careful please.
Isn't this the "no incidents in X decades" attitude which is allowing some (maybe many, maybe most) of the PHBs in the safety-critical players in the aircraft industry to say "how many accidents has the industry had? why do we need all these safety margins, all this resilience, all this FMEA, all this weird software (Ada!), all this testing? No other electroncs/computer designer bothers with it."
The same complacent attitude to an improving safety record in the UK rail industry which in due course led to a string of incidents and accidents (and more) in the rail industry?
Some of those aircraft industry players also have connections in the SMR business. Historically some of them have avoided software-controlled submarine reactors, for entirely understandable reasons. Is that likely to continue when it's a commercial civil (not taxpayer-funded military) product?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
