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And no mention of nuclear tbm's, even though NTBM's were remarkably fast and fixed many of the issues with traditional tbm's...
by jtriangle 3y ago
And no mention of nuclear tbm's, even though NTBM's were remarkably fast and fixed many of the issues with traditional tbm's...
- pjc50 3y agoWere any of these ever built? Googling suggests Los Alamos patented one, but I can't see examples of one being built and tried. How bad is the resulting contamination, and how do you keep it out of the groundwater?
- jtriangle 3y agoCouple prototypes from what I gather. No contamination because it's a sealed system, and they're flowing molten salt through the working end to melt the rock in front of the machine as it pushes through.