[The good old days...]
Posted on 04/18/2022 9:37:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Submarine reactors are certainly smaller than typical power plant reactors, but one thing submarine reactors have going for them is a plentiful supply of cooling water.
I used to live on a nuclear submarine. Most submarine reactors are substantially larger than 5 MW. My submarine had a 100MW plant. Most are substantially smaller than that now however but much larger than what this article is talking about.
Patrick Henry SSBN 599
What powers a nuke sub?
[The good old days...]
yes or one for each house. eventually.
They will be testing one at Eielson AFB near North Pole, AK. Really, if this works, it could be huge. For real.
The link is broken for me... 😞
Scale down a nuke sub reactor. How hard would that be?
Why can’t they just use the reactor out of a nuclear sub?
hisutton.com/NR-1.html
Or this...
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