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Naval Reactors Should Be Empowered to Show the Way Again
Marlin:
Naval Reactors Should Be Empowered to Show the Way Again
http://theenergycollective.com/rodadams/303516/naval-reactors-should-be-empowered-show-way-again
Fermi2:
If Naval Reactors shows the way every commercial plant in the country will go Fukushima. WHAT an idiot.
Gamecock:
--- Quote from: Broadzilla on Dec 05, 2013, 06:44 ---If Naval Reactors shows the way every commercial plant in the country will go Fukushima. WHAT an idiot.
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I know the author....
He is not an idiot, but he is wrong in this case. Rod never worked at NR so he has a view of "the program" that is not reality.
Fermi2:
Anyone who would write something like that is an idiot in my mind.
Marlin:
I have to disagree with both of you. The industry is locked into light water reactors to redirect the technology may take an entity that is not locked into that mindset. Thorium, small modular reactors and breeders are not on the front burner for the commercial industry and the DOE is not independent enough to steer to new nuclear options with its mandates to find new green alternative power sources. I won't argue the fine points but the general concept of giving the Navy (military/NASA) the mission to innovate and turn over technology (of mutual benefit) to the private sector is sound and has been in practice for a very long time (i.e. GPS, materials sciences, internet). Last I heard the Navy is funding Robert Bussard's Polywell fusion reactor.
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