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Re:HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak ... by coolspot on Saturday June 22, 2024 @05:55PM (#40762543)
> I’ll eat my hat if cargo ships go nuclear.

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Re:HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak ... by ok_dad on Saturday June 22, 2024 @07:04PM (#40763049)
Go nuclear means the future. Past experiments failing is why I said that ships won’t GO nuclear, implying the future. I was a navy nuke, I know a bit about shipboard nuclear reactors.
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Re:HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak ... by bonzini on Saturday June 22, 2024 @06:32PM (#40762804)
Does that count as "going nuclear"? Four have been built, and as of now they've all been decommissioned.
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