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by agentultra 481 days ago
Good luck. I'd wager you'll end up pivoting to SMRs. They exist today. Are cheaper to produce. And their failure mode would be... capsizing the reactor at sea probably and running on stored diesel until you make it to port?

We've been running reactors on ships since the 50s after all.
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bananapub 481 days ago
> I'd wager you'll end up pivoting to SMRs. They exist today.

who is selling ~zero maintenance, mass-produced SMRs today?

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agentultra 481 days ago
I meant in that they could actually be built and working SMRs exist in labs and test facilities in greater numbers than fusion reactors. My local university has been running one for ages.
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ted_dunning 481 days ago
How is that an argument to avoid SMRs if magical thinking about fusion reactors is allowed?
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bananapub 480 days ago
all my other comments on this post are about how fusion doesn't exist and YC funding a Fusion Boating Company before anyone has ever generated any net electricty with fusion is deeply stupid.

SMR can be stupid and not exist too!

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