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Nuclear materials already move intercontinentally on commercial ships. Somalian pirates can already pull an Exxon Valdez using commercial oil tankers.
by junofan 3y ago
Nuclear materials already move intercontinentally on commercial ships. Somalian pirates can already pull an Exxon Valdez using commercial oil tankers.
- titzer 3y agoAlso note that the potential for catastrophic meltdown / contamination is proportional to how much fuel you have on board. If you only have ~3 months fuel for a 20MW reactor, then it's not like a 3-mile-island or Chernobyl situation. There are plenty of modern reactor designs that don't turn into a giant cloud of radioactive smoke under duress, but shut down relatively calmly and safely.