US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design

Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by mLuby on Saturday July 30, 2022 @05:50PM (#32290714)

> but that term [battleships] is sometimes used colloquially to refer to any surface warship other than carriers

Really? I wouldn't be surprised to hear someone call a frigate a cruiser or a littoral combat ship a destroyer or an amphibious assault ship a carrier but everyone knows battleships are the biggest big-gun ships out there.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by MichaelCollins on Saturday July 30, 2022 @06:13PM (#32290881)

I think so, at least for some people who don't have an interest in military stuff or machines generally. Similar to the way any armored but unarmed truck may sometimes be called "a tank." (https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=police+tank&iax=images&ia=i...)

I try not to judge, I'm probably equally wrong without knowing it about things as far outside my area of interest.

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by kelnos on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:56PM (#32293027)

I would not be surprised if many people who don't have knowledge of naval vessels would use "battleship" as a generic term for "surface naval vessel". A possible driver of this could be the "Battleship" game.

I would also not be surprised if there were many people who'd never heard the terms "destroyer" or "cruiser".

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Re:US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor de... by josephcsible on Sunday July 31, 2022 @12:07AM (#32293085)

But the "Battleship" game has five different kinds of ships, only one of which it calls a battleship, and it does include cruisers and destroyers.

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