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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by cykros on Saturday September 21, 2024 @12:53AM (#41607566)
I mean, classical plants and those based around the regulations that the US currently has on the books thanks to some questionable lobbying in the 60s require large amounts of water, sure.

These are hardly the only viable plant designs that exist. Molten Salt, Pebble Bed, and other designs exist.

China is currently underway building a molten salt cooled Thorium reactor.

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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by sgarland on Saturday September 21, 2024 @09:51AM (#41609971)
Russia has had sodium-cooled reactors [0] for some time. America experimented with them at least back to the 1950s, with the USS Seawolf (SSN 575, not SSN 21) having a sodium-cooled reactor (S2G) for her first few years.

Russia also had lead-bismuth reactors, at least militarily, with the Alfa-class.

[0]: https://www.neimagazine.com/news/mox-use-at-russias-bn-800-r...

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