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Re:Oil System Collapsing So Fast It May Derail Renewables by aunty_helen on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:25PM (#28950390)
>Adopt modular nuclear reactors, and produce hundreds/thousands of them yearly.

We have this, they just go in ships and submarines.

Re:Oil System Collapsing So Fast It May Derail Renewables by masklinn on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:50PM (#28950674)
> We have this, they just go in ships and submarines.

US shipboard reactors use highly enriched (93%, literally weapons-grade because it was originally produced for warheads) uranium, that's not really desirable to distribute throughout the territory.

Even "low-enriched uranium" in a naval context just below 20% (which is the official boundary between LEU and HEU). By comparison regular "civil" nukes use 3-5% uranium.

Re:Oil System Collapsing So Fast It May Derail Renewables by beamatronic on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:32PM (#28950475)
Bring the ships to port and hook them up to the grid. Talk about swords to plowshares.
Re:Oil System Collapsing So Fast It May Derail Renewables by kfprt on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:10PM (#28950868)
They already can do this.
Re:Oil System Collapsing So Fast It May Derail Renewables by acchow on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:31PM (#28950462)
Hundreds of nuclear ships/submarines annually?
Re:Oil System Collapsing So Fast It May Derail Renewables by hcurtiss on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:33PM (#28950484)
Well, at least their reactors.