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A Company Is Producing Thousands of Cheap, Floating Nuclear Reactors
Interesting Engineering ^ | 15 June 2021 | Brad Bergan

Posted on 06/21/2021 10:10:47 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

While wind turbine and solar power platforms are beginning to take to the sea, another, more established form of power might also avoid hiking real estate costs.

A Copenhagen-based startup just raised funding to the sum of eight figures in Euros to begin construction of a new kind of cheap, flexible, portable, and unyieldingly safe nuclear reactor, according to a press release shared by the company, Seaborg Technologies.

...Called Compact Molten Salt Reactors, the new reactors are roughly the size of a shipping container,

(Excerpt) Read more at interestingengineering.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: nuke
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I like it!

But will only believe it when producing power in the real world.

1 posted on 06/21/2021 10:10:47 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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2 posted on 06/21/2021 10:13:32 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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I hate when a tsunami washes a nuclear reactor through my house.


3 posted on 06/21/2021 10:14:03 AM PDT by DannyTN
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Here’s hoping....


4 posted on 06/21/2021 10:15:48 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: DannyTN

Yeah, what about the captains on cruise ships who don’t watch where they’re going?


5 posted on 06/21/2021 10:17:09 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Liberals and their unflinching eco-wacko allies will fight tooth and nail to make sure nothing like this ever comes here.

Except for the few elite of course.

The rest of us can suffer and die off.


6 posted on 06/21/2021 10:17:13 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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There is absolutely no reason that nuclear propulsion can’t work for most ships and even trains. The current size of submarine propulsion could be made to fit them. It’s been done for decades. After that, how about semi tractors?


7 posted on 06/21/2021 10:17:17 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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That cruise was a blast!!!


8 posted on 06/21/2021 10:18:47 AM PDT by DannyTN
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Seems like a stock fraud, a start to a bad B grade movie, or a “Hold my beer and watch this moment.”


9 posted on 06/21/2021 10:18:48 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: Larry Lucido

Safer than Batman’s atomic batteries.


10 posted on 06/21/2021 10:20:01 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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> Seems like a stock fraud, a start to a bad B grade movie, or a “Hold my beer and watch this moment.” <

Stock fraud was my first thought. But then again I’m the suspicious type.


11 posted on 06/21/2021 10:29:26 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Larry Lucido

When did Mr e-Cat Rossi get out of jail?


12 posted on 06/21/2021 10:29:47 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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Hi.

$19.99?

Shipping free if I buy two?

5.56mm


13 posted on 06/21/2021 10:31:00 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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—”I hate when a tsunami washes a nuclear reactor through my house.”
Do you want to live in the same place forever?

Scerew up a real estate tax payment and would will wish it was only a nuclear tsunami!


14 posted on 06/21/2021 10:32:28 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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or poor sail boat operators.

I saw a movie about this once, but it had too many words

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Is_Lost


15 posted on 06/21/2021 10:33:11 AM PDT by algore
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“There is absolutely no reason that nuclear propulsion can’t work for most ships and even trains.”

Countries don’t allow them into their ports.


16 posted on 06/21/2021 10:33:16 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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—”Except for the few elite of course.”

Would not want to obscure their ocean view.

Or some noisemaker next to the 18th hole.


17 posted on 06/21/2021 10:34:32 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: alternatives?

—”Seems like a stock fraud, “

Would that in any reduce the taxpayer subsidies?


18 posted on 06/21/2021 10:36:10 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: norwaypinesavage

I guess the rub is ensuring they survive a crash without hurting a lot more people.


19 posted on 06/21/2021 10:36:11 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Larry Lucido

I see it goes to eleven. (at least)


20 posted on 06/21/2021 10:36:50 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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