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Agreed. Actually it has always been a good idea but the costs associated with unlimited liability pushed the industry away from any commercial implementation. S
by ChuckMcM 7y ago
Agreed. Actually it has always been a good idea but the costs associated with unlimited liability pushed the industry away from any commercial implementation. Some of the modern ideas, like the traveling wave reactor, have quite a bit going for them.
In a different political climate one could imagine a small reactor feeding a community rather than a substation.
I don't think it is politically possible for civilian use but military use of small reactors is well documented in the Navy.
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- petre 7y agoIt can and should be done by the military first because of less red tape involving civillian reactors. If it workd for the military it will also work for civillian operations. One just needs to modularise the reactors and their safety systems and be able to build a scalable solution with up to two dozen modules. NuScale Power is on a similar path to deliver a working modular reactor by 2025. It uses 65x9 ft, 60 MWe modules. Not quite container sized but still transportable by bardge, train or truck.