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Seems like a decent opportunity to use a nuclear reactor .. something like what you would find on a submarine.
by ratg13 4y ago
Seems like a decent opportunity to use a nuclear reactor .. something like what you would find on a submarine.
- fragmede 4y agoIt was tried! http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/
- throwanem 4y agoI wonder what it'd take to adapt NuScale's SMR design. Probably a lot, given the unusual rigors of the Antarctic environment, but for basically the same reasons it seems like something that'd be worth funding.
- quickthrowman 4y agoWe already tried that 60 years ago in Greenland, it didn’t end well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm
- sponaugle 4y agoThere is a fascinating film about that reactor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlmOQJW5Xis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlmOQJW5Xis
- kortilla 4y agoThat didn’t fail because of the nuclear reactor, it failed because the ice sheet movement deformed the tunnels over time and collapsed ceilings. Nothing to do with the feasibility of sitting a portable nuclear reactor on top of the ice like the settlements in Antarctica.