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nicce 3 days 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

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