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They take a year to build, and can be mobile. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power_station https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_fl

• wongarsu 6y ago
  With 2 70MW reactors these fall squarely into "small-scale nuclear". A traditional nuclear power plant has reactors with 10-20 times the power output. I think these kinds of applications have a lot of potential, and are the future of nuclear energy production. But using these kinds of small reactors outside the military (or Russian icebreakers) is an idea that only recently gained traction (at least since it was originally abandoned around the 60s).