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I suspect size requirements have relatively much more influence over the design and construction of naval reactors.
by catalogia 7y ago
I suspect size requirements have relatively much more influence over the design and construction of naval reactors.
- pdonis 7y agoSize and the need to operate reliably at widely varying power levels. A reactor that's powering a ship has to be able to go from, say, 10% power to 100% power rapidly if the captain wants to go from ahead slow to flank speed, and also the reverse (the reverse case, 100% to 10% rapidly, is actually even more challenging). A civilian reactor has much less demanding requirements for changing power levels.