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Smartest thing to do would be to allow the US Navy to run and operate land based nuclear reactors based on their technology. Build good will for the Navy and ma
by ren_engineer 5y ago
Smartest thing to do would be to allow the US Navy to run and operate land based nuclear reactors based on their technology. Build good will for the Navy and maybe use the money to finance their operations. They've operated miniature nuclear reactors for decades without a single incident. They seem to be decades ahead of the public sector in terms of technology
- i_am_proteus 5y agoThe US Navy Nuclear Propulsion program more or less self-regulates. I'll add that naval reactors are small and floating - one of the advantages of the "small modular reactor" designs is that the production time and cost are both much less than that of large plants, which makes the risk calculus much more palatable for investors.