Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ...
by tlear on Friday September 04, 2020 @04:30AM
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This is very interesting, can reactor like that be used on a ship or submarine(probably stupid question but I am curious). I remember reading some Tom Clancy novel that had a reactor with cooling that used no pumps as a major technical story point.
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Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ...
by HPsquared on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:56AM
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On submarines that might be a liquid metal coolant, as used on a few soviet submarine reactors. Lead-bismuth eutectic is most likely, it would be sensible to avoid sodium/potassium coolant on a submarine.