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Re:Ask HN: What are your crazy tech ideas? by thedevindevops on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:53AM (#18439621)
I'd like to work on the control system for a travelling wave reactor or the operating system for a space station.
Re:Ask HN: What are your crazy tech ideas? by hadeon on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:27PM (#18442759)
That's cool! What's a travelling wave reactor?
Re:Ask HN: What are your crazy tech ideas? by thedevindevops on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:34AM (#18460016)
A very efficient type of 'nextgen' nuclear reactor that -once fueled - can potentially run, self-sustained, for decades without refueling or removing spent fuel. But it requires very advanced nuclear physics to design and maintain.