Dims will fight tooth and nail to make sure nothing like that happens in the US.
However, they will give countless amounts of money to their favorite countries to have as much as they want.
Floating Nuclear Power Plants Sounded Screwy in 1969. Today? Not So Much
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a30731226/floating-nuclear-power-plants/
Is the salt the moderator? If it drains away, what stops latent heat from melting the core?
Frankly, it’s pretty ridiculous how the powers that be have stifled innovation in nuclear power for the last 70 years. Reading the popular science stuff circa 1945-47, an outline for a future of nuclear-powered-everything was on the horizon. Yes, there were radiation issues to be addressed, but there are negative externalities on everything, and safety could have been worked out. The opposition was political, and to some extent also industrial as so much money was being made on competing power sources.
Canada is doing the same thing: http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/canada-s-new-small-modular-reactor-action-plan-released/article/582874
Old news. I seem to remember from 5-10 years ago that Toshiba has a small 10-50 MW scalable nuclear plant that is self-contained and can be buried for its 20 year life, with only cooling water inlet/outlet and power taps needed. Then it is replaced.
Then again, I may have misread or misremembered, but this is NOT anything like a new idea.
All the fuel you will ever need for these reactors is currently available at existing nuclear power plants. The promise of these reactors to me is that can “burn” plutonium waste and break it down to elements that can decay in hundreds of years instead of 50,000+ years.
The U.S. Navy already has 210 nuclear reactors that float (on a semi-permanent basis). Some of them submerge as well. The Navy has been operating these floating nuclear reactors for almost 60 years with zero serious nuclear accidents and zero individuals killed by radiation. They even had two nuclear-powered vessels that sank (or were sunk), the USS Thresher, 1963, and USS Scorpion, 1968, with no subsequent incidents involving the reactors.
It also makes sense in that the coastlines tend to attract population. Kansas and Iowa might benefit from electric current that doesn’t have to travel so far but 14 of the 20 most populous cities are in a coastal state.