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“It's interesting - there seems to be some fear deep down in that comment. The word "Impossible" at the end of it draws attention.For the record, I work at a nuclear reactor, as an engineer. I was once a fan of nuclear, until I realized how hard it is to gain public support for new nuclear. Last year, US generation of renewables (without hydro) was 28% that of nuclear. This year, that share is ...”
“Why not have the tremendous resource of the US armed forced (funded to the tune of nearly $1,000B annually apparently) used to produce floating SMRs for commercial (or even subsidised or hell even gifted for free) sale?A sub or ship outputting 2 x 100MWe connected to the local grid of a buyer nation.Say she could build 500 of these ships a year that would equate to 100GWe of supply ...”