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by exabrial 957 days ago
I have a dumb question... we have marine reactors like the A2W; which seems like a SMR to me. Whats different about the design constraints for these?
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epistasis 957 days ago
Highly enriched uranium is not generally considered suitable for civilian reactors.

Plus, I've never heard anyone cite cost numbers for an A2W, but I'm not sure there's a reason it could compete on cost. Military hardware is not known for having the cheapest options, quite the contrary.

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exabrial 957 days ago
Ah, I didn't know it used higher-level enriched fuel
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