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In fact US Army did design nuclear reactor that can be shipped in two 4TEU intermodal containers (design of the thing is highly RBMK-ish) and then managed to de
by dfox 7y ago
In fact US Army did design nuclear reactor that can be shipped in two 4TEU intermodal containers (design of the thing is highly RBMK-ish) and then managed to deploy that and cause nuclear accident with casualties(in the sense of personnel being pinned to the roof by reactor control rods that were somehow ejected out of the reactor)...
- King-Aaron 7y agoIs that the Three Mile Island incident you're talking about? I'm genuinely curious, though thought that was a full scale reactor
- LaMarseillaise 7y agoI believe dfox is referring to this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1#Accident_and_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1#Accident_and_response
- acidburnNSA 7y agoPretty sure the ML-1 was the shippable one. It was gas-cooled and portable. The SL-1 that had the accident was a BWR intended to power arctic radar stations above the DEW line. Too big to ship easily. These two reactors were part of the same Army program. https://whatisnuclear.com/reactor_history.html#the-army-nuclear-power-program https://whatisnuclear.com/reactor_history.html#the-army-nucl... M meant mobile. S meant stationary. L means low-power.
- cryptonector 7y agoThe personnel-pinned-to-the-roof accident was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 and the accident was 59 years ago. While I'm not sure that nuclear power from Uranium or Plutonium fission will ever be safe enough, I wouldn't assume or imply that an accident 59 years ago dooms the project.