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It supports designs that are very safe, but most reactors for commercial power don't need to be able to safely collide with underwater mountains.
by QuarterReptile 5y ago
It supports designs that are very safe, but most reactors for commercial power don't need to be able to safely collide with underwater mountains.
- rich_sasha 5y agoInteresting, are there any articles you could point an amateur nuclear enthusiast at?
- QuarterReptile 5y agoThe Wikipedia article is worth a read for some considerations [0]. If you haven't read section 3 of the Navy's Applied Engineering Principles manual [1], that's a good place to start thinking about what highly enriched uranium buys you in your core design. To my knowledge, you can't really read about the many safety systems attached to and around the Navy reactors. 0.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_naval_reactors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_naval_reactors 1. (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Portals/103/Documents/NNPTC/Electrical%2520Eng/applied_ee_v1.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwizmYykx9HzAhXcmmoFHehDAI4QFnoECAUQAg&usg=AOvVaw3B1wYqDy4ApFSsF2e8C8FJ https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Por...)