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>Adopt modular nuclear reactors, and produce hundreds/thousands of them yearly. We have this, they just go in ships and submarines.
by aunty_helen 5y ago
>Adopt modular nuclear reactors, and produce hundreds/thousands of them yearly.
We have this, they just go in ships and submarines.
- acchow 5y agoHundreds of nuclear ships/submarines annually?
- hcurtiss 5y agoWell, at least their reactors.
- beamatronic 5y agoBring the ships to port and hook them up to the grid. Talk about swords to plowshares.
- kfprt 5y agoThey already can do this.
- masklinn 5y ago> We have this, they just go in ships and submarines. US shipboard reactors use highly enriched (93%, literally weapons-grade because it was originally produced for warheads) uranium, that's not really desirable to distribute throughout the territory. Even "low-enriched uranium" in a naval context just below 20% (which is the official boundary between LEU and HEU). By comparison regular "civil" nukes use 3-5% uranium.