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Thinking about the cooling pool: Could you just make an off-shore in-ocean "farm" of these?
by RangerScience 6y ago
Thinking about the cooling pool:
Could you just make an off-shore in-ocean "farm" of these?
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoSalt water might add to your corrosion issues. Also, physical security of nuclear reactors is a big deal. Now you need a navy to do it.
- RangerScience 6y agoHalf-kidding, and it wouldn't deal with the saltwater corrosion issues, but.... Legit use for Project Plowshare harbors?
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoAnd if you have a reactor leak, you just say it didn't matter, because Plowshare already contaminated everything. This is insane, but it has a certain consistent logic to it...
- pvaldes 6y ago> Could you just make an off-shore in-ocean "farm" Not! Ocean is inherently unstable!. The first serious storm would dislodge and damage the whole farm crashing one module against the other before to vomit them in the shore. Some modules just would dissapear. And then you have a humongous environmental damage and a really expensive rescue problem trying to clean the fragmented mess.
- therealdrag0 6y agoDon't offshore wind farms do okay?
- pvaldes 6y agoIs a totally different scale than a nuclear powerplant. A chain of entire cities will not be made unhinhabitable if a wind farm dislodges. Fishermen industries and touristic areas will not be distroyed. We have more room for losing one or two each 20 years (that is what will happen) and rebuild it again Fish cages and other offshore structures can be moved to earth in tornado season or when necessary. Moving a nuclear farm, would be much more difficult.
- RangerScience 6y agoAFAIK, put em deep enough - which isn't that deep - and you're basically fine? It's why subs (AFAIK) DGAF about storms. Mutual impact issue sounds pretty resolvable with a big steel frame and the like.
- pvaldes 6y agoYou will have still many deep currents that shouldn't be underestimated. Is not so simple.