• Clarke @lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    I don’t even know how to argue with that viewpoint. Are they denying that we have small modular reactors what? It’s a technology that’s been employed since the '50s. I literally have a link at the top of the post.

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      1 year ago

      I like you. You’re funny. I your original post you’re making fun of people because they can’t tell the difference between military small reactors and commercial SMRs. Now you’re saying (correctly) that they’re the same thing. Which is it now?

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      1 year ago

      Right, but they don’t exist commercially and are 10 years away by best estimate (I think I haven’t looked lately). Also, Navy style reactors are not anything like SMR designs currently under development. They are much closer to current PWR reactors in use. I love the idea of more nuclear, hell that’s what I do for a living. I just feel like SMRs are more vapor ware that’s always “10 years away”. I hope not, I know some really smart people who are currently working at Terrapower trying to make it a reality.