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French have some LEU submarines. They seem to be pretty good on paper. Needs refueling every ten years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffren-class_submarine h

by nicce 1y ago

French have some LEU submarines. They seem to be pretty good on paper. Needs refueling every ten years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffren-class_submarine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffren-class_submarine

quotemstr 1y ago
Cool! Thanks
pyrale 1y ago
France also built full-sized commercial plants rather than batteries of small reactors. That's because scale matters for efficient production.
- nicce 1y ago
  That is rapidly changing. https://onu-vienne.delegfrance.org/Nuclear-power-and-SMR-are-central-to-the-France-2030-investment-plan https://onu-vienne.delegfrance.org/Nuclear-power-and-SMR-are... https://regulation-oversight.asnr.fr/oversight/small-modular-reactors/the-small-modular-reactors-smr https://regulation-oversight.asnr.fr/oversight/small-modular...