The workers at the nuclear power plant are attentive and devoted like always. They track neutron fluxes, monitor enrichment, measure actinides, extract transuranics, do the online fuel processing, and many other fancy technobabble words. There is nothing close to danger happening, what with the extreme error margin on the equipment and the total absence of anything under pressure, but even a tiny error adds up to a huge amount of less energy for the people who need it!

The truly vast heat from the reactor goes through many steps: here it first makes iron, then once it's cooled down it helps make hydrogen for balloons and chemicals, only thirdly electricity, then other chemicals, then finally it makes more sense to just use the heat for heating up someplace else as it's sent into water that is then sent alooong...