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Airstrike protection is built into the regs. You just make the containment super strong. This is partly why the big new build AP1000s in Georgia are behind sche
by acidburnNSA 5y ago
Airstrike protection is built into the regs. You just make the containment super strong. This is partly why the big new build AP1000s in Georgia are behind schedule.
An older and perhaps more beautiful solution is to put the reactors fairly deep underground, or underwater. Sadly, underground construction is extra pricey.
EDIT: I was thinking of aircraft impact here rather than hostile military attack. Defending against hostile military attack is not built into the regs.
- magicalist 5y ago> This is partly why the big new build AP1000s in Georgia are behind schedule. "partly" seems like it's doing a lot of work in this sentence.
- acidburnNSA 5y agoNot really, if you talk about aircraft impact only. https://www.ans.org/news/article-1646/root-cause-of-vogtle-and-vc-summer-delays/ https://www.ans.org/news/article-1646/root-cause-of-vogtle-a... Hostile military airstrikes are another thing entirely, that's true. See edit above.
- ncmncm 5y ago"Partly" because the more substantial problem is garden-variety corruption, a problem for all big reactor projects in the US.
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- acidburnNSA 5y agoI think it's just garden-variety megaproject contracting and supply chain issues mostly. https://assets.sourcemedia.com/8c/d8/6686933e49518782cdc7cc1b577f/bechtel-report-on-v.C.%20Summer%20nuclear%20project%20020516.pdf https://assets.sourcemedia.com/8c/d8/6686933e49518782cdc7cc1...
- ncmncm 5y agoCorruption is paid out of multiple accounts.
- liketochill 5y agoI would have thought digging a hole would be cheaper than a giant concrete containment structures. Maybe the containment structure is mostly needed even if underground so the marginal cost to make it plane proof does not tip the scales to building the whole thing underground