News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer. Parent comment

Re:The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer by djsumdog on Saturday December 14, 2019 @12:30AM (#21787993)
That makes a lot of sense; probably why we only see nuclear reactors on military vessels.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer by srg0 on Saturday December 14, 2019 @04:57AM (#21788699)
Not true. The fleet of Russian icebreakers relies mostly on nuclear propulsion. Wikipedia lists four different cargo ships equipped with a nuclear reactor at some point of time. The regulations and infrastructure are lacking but the interest is there.

Burning oil to move goods around the world is not a sustainable long term solution. Nuclear propulsion might be.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer by loeg on Saturday December 14, 2019 @04:29AM (#21788619)
I've thought about this somewhat. We only trust the military to run nuclear reactors; ok, can we work with that? The US military is already a grift and jobs program; maybe we can turn the Navy into a grift and jobs program that is also an electricity utility.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Smaller and Safer by andromeduck on Saturday December 14, 2019 @05:00AM (#21788703)
Make them power all the shipping, oceanic towboats.
[ Parent | on HN ]