The facility itself is
decades old, but recent improvements to the electronics of the array are boosting its performance
specs across the board by factors of at least 10, and in some cases by more than 1,000, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Rick Perley said at the meeting.
Nuclear power plants, especially standardized modular ones that don't have the inherent problems of the
older «built - to -
spec» versions, are part of the solution, but only in the shorter term of the next few
decades.