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Re:G-20 Climate Talks Threatened by Clash over Coal Ahead of... by spaetzleesser on Friday October 29, 2021 @12:48PM (#29040709)
From my experience military equipment is not designed to be efficient in terms of cost. I am pretty sure their designs can’t be used for commercially viable power.

They are also operated in super secure environments like submarines and aircraft carriers. Harder to secure a large number of commercial plants all over the country. Even accidents are much more forgiving out on the ocean vs on land.

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Re:G-20 Climate Talks Threatened by Clash over Coal Ahead of... by giarc on Friday October 29, 2021 @01:13PM (#29041004)
So could we not just operate them on water? Many large cities are on water and already have ugly ports. Just build nuclear reactors in ships, park in port and connect to grid. Have coast guard/navy secure them.
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Re:G-20 Climate Talks Threatened by Clash over Coal Ahead of... by glogla on Saturday October 30, 2021 @03:31AM (#29046801)
They have one in Russia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov
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Re:G-20 Climate Talks Threatened by Clash over Coal Ahead of... by spaetzleesser on Friday October 29, 2021 @06:24PM (#29044208)
Again, look at the economics. I bet it won’t work.
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Re:G-20 Climate Talks Threatened by Clash over Coal Ahead of... by i_am_proteus on Friday October 29, 2021 @01:27PM (#29041176)
That's the general thrust of the modular bit - it's easier to build ten 100 MWe plants (mostly) in a factory and ship them to the site of a power station than build a 1GWe monolith on the same site.
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