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> Make millions of them. What? Millions of reactors, more or less unguarded, sinkable by storms and what not. The proposition is insane.
by rightbyte 3y ago
> Make millions of them.
What? Millions of reactors, more or less unguarded, sinkable by storms and what not. The proposition is insane.
- Geee 3y agoMake them unsinkable, or otherwise safe whether they are over or under the water.
- rightbyte 3y agoThat is just silly. Unsinkable? For real? This push and consent for nuclear have come out of nowhere. It is manufactured consent.
- croes 3y agoI think terror organization like the Hamas would love small moveable reactors
- jacquesm 3y agoYou mean like the Titanic. That might work.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoWell sure, if we can make completely safe in a completely uncontrolled environment(floating in the ocean), small, mass producable by automation and operated with no staff fission reactors, everything would be fine. Currently any one of these features is either still in its infancy or not even being attempted at all. Expecting a reactor with all of them to show up in time to compete with renewable and conventional nuclear seems fanciful at best.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoI think it is actually pretty interesting. I wonder if there could be enough passive cooling to simply dump the reactor core in the case of overheating, providing a failsafe against potential meltdown.
- rightbyte 3y agoIt is not a technical problem. It is a social one. From a safety standpoint having more or less municipally run nuclear reactors is terrifying.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoWhy? Just make sure that they are fail safe and too big to steal. You could melt a couple down each year intentionally just to prove how safe they are to the public and test them
- rightbyte 3y ago> Just make sure that they are fail safe You are essentially saying that "just make them safe and they will be safe". > You could melt a couple down each year intentionally Lets keep this on the draft stage please ...
- s1artibartfast 3y ago>You are essentially saying that "just make them safe and they will be safe". Yep, thats the proposal. Do you still find it objectionable if they are safe?
- jasonwatkinspdx 3y agoYou know the meme about drawing the owl? The burden is on you to describe exactly how they will be made safe.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoThat is an entirely different question than IF someone would want floating reactors provided they are safe. Read through the comment chain >> What if we could make them safe? >It is not a technical problem. It is a social one.