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1 reactor per day would double the number of reactors in the world in less than 18 months. Can we generate enough people qualified to run them without compromis
by barryrandall 3y ago
1 reactor per day would double the number of reactors in the world in less than 18 months. Can we generate enough people qualified to run them without compromising safety?
- EasyMark 3y agothat was welding together just one part of a reactor, it would involve a lot more than that one part. You'd have to get all the various steps done in parallel and all stages less than 24 hours to get a "1 a day" pipeline going. I think that is wishful thinking by anyone's standards.
- samus 3y agoThat's one large bottleneck resolved, perhaps one of the most limiting. But it doesn't mean they will actually crank up the assembly line that far to then sit on a large inventory, which would create its own issues.
- radu_floricica 3y agoThey're pretty small for a commercial reactor. But on the other hand nobody stops us from building them in parallel. The point is that they break existing rules: we'll stop counting reactors, for one thing, because numbers will mean a different thing. And also, more importantly, we need a lot less qualified operators to run them safely.