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Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ... by torpfactory on Friday September 04, 2020 @12:23PM (#24376357)
I think they are not trivial but relatively easy parts of the design. I’m sure they can design support structure to withstand whatever arbitrarily large earthquake you throw at it. The structure doesn’t need to be particularly light or compact so there shouldn’t be any design constraints getting in the way of strength. The heat transfer problem is much much harder and they’ve already solved that apparently.
Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety ... by sandworm101 on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:04PM (#24377382)
I;m not saying it is impossible, just interesting. One option could be to suspend these reactors on cables from above. That might let them swing around all they want during even a huge quake. The water would act as the dampener. Not much extra engineering required.