We almost built 8 gigawatt-class floating nuclear power plants

Re:We almost built 8 gigawatt-class floating nuclear power p... by s1artibartfast on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:19AM (#31467867)

Thank you for sharing! What a great article. As I read it I formulated several questions only for them to be clearly resolved as I read further. This is so often not the case.

I would be interested in learning more. Is there one of the recent development projects that is more mature and likely to succeed than the others?

Does the science Friday episode have additional information not included in the writeup?

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Re:We almost built 8 gigawatt-class floating nuclear power p... by acidburnNSA on Sunday May 22, 2022 @09:30AM (#31467985)

Thanks for saying so. I'd say the writeup is more informative than the Science Friday piece, honestly.

There are a few good modern reports about using his kind of idea for making ammonia and hydrogen, but nothing too serious is going on outside of Russia and China on this topic.

[1] https://www.lucidcatalyst.com/hydrogen-report

Most of the people talking about it in advanced reactor space are using very low readiness reactors rather than PWRs, which led me to make this extremely fringe starwars prequel meme: [2].

[2] https://i.imgur.com/bDaVjRY.png

The Koreans have the PWRs and the ship industry in place, they'd be the best to make this happen again. But so far they've just done a few small MOUs here and there. Again, nothing too serious is happening from what I can tell. I'd be happy to be wrong.

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Re:We almost built 8 gigawatt-class floating nuclear power p... by s1artibartfast on Sunday May 22, 2022 @10:34AM (#31468599)

Thanks again!

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