Democracy works very badly in the US, partly because most voters are very bad at thinking.

Look at the Trump supporters that have taken a stand that is almost opposed to the idea of rational thought.

People who reject the business-supremacy treaties are not against "trade", they are against the tyranny of business.

Anti-Muslim terror-militias are rising in some US states.

The motive for Depleted (or Dirty) Uranium shells was to attack armored vehicles. Most of the time when A10 fighters fired them in the conquest of Iraq, they were aimed at cars and trucks.

This meant a lot of the fallout pollution was not even military useful: nonradioactive shells would have done just as well.

Posting this does not mean I think that Dirty Uranium are shells are legitimate at all. And would you want your army to pollute your country for millions of years in defending against an invasion?

Are small nuclear reactors a good idea?

Not needing pumps, they could be inherently safer than the traditional designs. But that doesn't mean they can't have spectacular failures. It doesn't necessarily mean they can't melt down, for instance. The high-temperature liquid in a reactor tends to cause corrosion. Structure which is quite safe can alter under the influence of corrosion and become unsafe. There is no way to see where things have moved to.

In addition, making 10 little reactors instead of one big reactor increases the opportunities to build one wrong.