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There were designs for this but AFAIU the amount of mass needed for shielding the reactor would make it impractical. Not sure if technology has changed much but
by ailideex 7y ago
There were designs for this but AFAIU the amount of mass needed for shielding the reactor would make it impractical. Not sure if technology has changed much but presumably the only way to get around this is to reduce radiation as the mass of shielding has more to do with fundamental physics I think.
- dcolkitt 7y agoMy understanding (as a lay person) is that metal foams have revolutionized the area of shielding. I would imagine that many designs that were once impractical, may no longer be so given the new light-weight shielding technology.
- ailideex 7y agoInteresting, I was not aware of this - the problems I described were from designs in the 1960s