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The US navy has hundreds of reactors doing just that now...

• bayesian_horse 4y ago
  And they didn't ask any environmentalists how they feel about it.
  • petre 4y ago
    If we ask the environmentalists every time we'd end up like Germany - hooked on Russian gas, instead of France which doesn't have this problem due to the ~70% electrical energy mix coming from nuclear.
    • bayesian_horse 4y ago
      Well, look at what happens in China when industry doesn't need to obey to environmental concerns. France has plenty of problems with its nuclear power. Germany is moving away from Russian gas, and a lot quicker than Russia would like.
      • petre 4y ago
        Moving to what, coal? For the volumes needed, a gas terminal is insufficient, so it would ultimately boil down to burning coal again. The problems France has with its nuclear reactors is the need to replace them and build new ones.
  • voldacar 4y ago
    "Environmentalists" have demonstrated for half a century that they are not credible on the topic of nuclear power. The NRC is probably responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths by retarding the construction of new nuclear fission for decades, which is the safest (deaths per watt hour) energy production tech we have