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>Approval to go ahead is expected from Germany’s nuclear regulators by the end of this month. How could the approval of a previously unknown reactor type actua
by upofadown 11y ago
>Approval to go ahead is expected from Germany’s nuclear regulators by the end of this month.
How could the approval of a previously unknown reactor type actually mean anything? Is it going to be something pointless like "Reactor contains no fissionable material. So OK!"?
- lorenzhs 11y agoStellarators are hardly a "previously unknown reactor type". They were just infeasible for a long time because the computational power to compute the shapes they need to be in wasn't there yet. The concept is many decades old.