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fmajid 3 days ago

And the technology is incredibly mature, submarine reactors were some of the first reactors, period.

croes 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

And they are heavily guarded.

In the current political climate I prefer energy sources that don’t cause severe damage if sabotaged.

Did you hear the worries in Ukraine that Russia could hit a wind turbine with a rocket?

rafaelmn 3 days ago | parent [-]

What's the danger in hitting a micro nuclear reactor with a rocket ? A shitty dirty bomb detonated near the powerplant ?

oneshtein 3 days ago | parent [-]

Nuclear meltdown, evacuation of nearby cities.

nicce 2 days ago | parent [-]

Don’t you need to create a specific kind of chemical reaction and just bomb is not enough for that?

quotemstr 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Submarine reactors run on super high enriched fuel instantly one could instantly repurpose into a bomb. Lots of gen 4 and 5 reactor designs that combine low cost, compact footprint, and running on less expensive and carefully controlled fuel.

nicce 3 days ago | parent [-]

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

pyrale 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

France also built full-sized commercial plants rather than batteries of small reactors. That's because scale matters for efficient production.

nicce 3 days ago | parent [-]

That is rapidly changing.

https://onu-vienne.delegfrance.org/Nuclear-power-and-SMR-are...

https://regulation-oversight.asnr.fr/oversight/small-modular...

quotemstr 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Cool! Thanks