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Re:Westinghouse AP300 Small Module Reactor by pyrale on Friday May 05, 2023 @09:18AM (#35828857)
Nuclear subs and carriers produce a fraction of the power of a commercial nuclear power plant.
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Re:Westinghouse AP300 Small Module Reactor by killjoywashere on Saturday May 06, 2023 @01:16AM (#35838269)
I'm not sure why that matters? Salt water is salt water. An carrier's brake horsepower is ~200MW, so a fraction, but a reasonable fraction. When San Diego had a county-wide power outage in 2011, the carriers at North Island pushed power to the grid to support essential services.
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Re:Westinghouse AP300 Small Module Reactor by pyrale on Saturday May 06, 2023 @06:10AM (#35839887)
smaller-size systems along with less budgetary oversight means higher maintenance costs are less likely to be problematic.
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