Maybe they are still pissed about the sale of the super hi-tech milling machine to the Ruskies? I am.
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They’re called aircraft carriers.
Perhaps one day every home will have its own mini nuclear plant . . . assuming we’re not rendered extinct by this latest pandemic.
They tried this sixty years ago, with the SL-1 reactor and other efforts. Long before small computers became available.
SL-1 underwent a runaway criticality incident that killed three people. One got pinned to the ceiling with a control rod through his groin. That kind of took the wind out of the small military reactor research effort.
SL-1 used fuel that was weapons-grade, or close to it; so do submarine reactors.
Mr. Fusion.
So could mobile reactors / generators be emergency back up if a power plant in the USA were taken out ?
Seems like something worth having for Homeland defense
Pretty sure that a good percentage of our sub fleet already has mobile nuclear reactors.
Ship to shore power you dummys, it aint new
Everyone mistakes a reactor with a battery. These need a lot of management. It’s not a box you can just plug into the grid and power something. It isn’t really “portable” and it really isn’t easy. This looks like a R&D and exploration of the technology prospects for today. This is something we should have already been working on for decades, but of course we’ve had terrible management of our national defense for quite a long while.
I already have one in my DeLorean. It can hit 88 mph in no time.
This project will die before it is ever finished.
Somebody had a brain fart thinking it was original. It is back to the future. Bases once had their own power plants as did most towns. In the 50s to early 60s there were small nuclear power plants for Greenland and Antarctica. Both worked but both had their problems. We have them now of course in places called submarines and air craft carriers.
Nice idea but nothing new at all.
Every nuclear powered submarine is proof that the technology is sound and safe and can be delivered in a small package, maintained and serviced by well-trained twenty-somethings.