How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a mile deep

Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by honestjohn on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:15PM (#41370106)

"A mile underground" and "cheap" don't seem to go together.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by hinkley on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:20PM (#41370167)

Has everyone forgotten when we had an oil well leaking .8 miles underwater and we couldn’t do shit to stop it?

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by honestjohn on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:24PM (#41370218)

Are you talking about me or the article?

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by hinkley on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:28PM (#41370268)

The article. Working a mile down is at the limits of our capabilities. In an emergency situation it’s nearly unobtanium. Like Kernighan’s Law for engineering.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by honestjohn on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:50PM (#41370539)

Yeah, it seems nuts. Nuclear submarines have proven our ability to operate a small reactor a km underwater, but under land is much harder.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by hinkley on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @11:33PM (#41375671)

But at 1 atm.

If the pressure vessel fails they autoscram the reactor don’t they? I mean assuming they didn’t get hit with a torpedo.

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