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NuScale's main safety feature is an enormous pool of water, so the reactors can cool down without human intervention. That's more physics than engineering.
by p1mrx 4y ago
NuScale's main safety feature is an enormous pool of water, so the reactors can cool down without human intervention. That's more physics than engineering.
- giantg2 4y agoNot really. You have to engineer that water containment, delivery, and steam venting. Sure, it's making use of physics for some of those aspects, but there are still others that rely on how it was designed and manufactured.
- p1mrx 4y agoI don't disagree that there are more-elegant proposed reactors with more-inherent safety, but NuScale has an incremental/conservative design with 20 years of effort behind it. We need to fight climate change immediately, and prioritize "good enough and politically feasible" over "technically optimal" solutions.