A new look for nuclear power

[Marlin]

A new look for nuclear power

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/new-look-floating-nuclear-power-0624

[HydroDave63]

I'm pretty sure that "once-through cooling" objections would be formidable...

[Marlin]

I'm pretty sure that "once-through cooling" objections would be formidable...

Once through? I didn't see that in the article, I did see:

"At all times, the cooling water and seawater are kept separate so that contaminants cannot flow from one to the other."

[Ksheed]

Will never happen

It already has: http://enformable.com/2014/09/first-floating-nuclear-power-station-scrapped/

...and another one coming soon: http://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/nuclear-russia/2014-10-russia-announces-yet-newer-delivery-date-first-floating-nuclear-power-plant

[Chimera]

The idea of off-shore/floating nuclear power plants has been bandied about for decades . . . and MIT is just now discovering this entirely unoriginal idea?

On the other hand, the Navy has been making them for decades.  They call them aircraft carriers.  And, strangely enough, the fresh water and the salt water don't mix.