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To: minnesota_bound

Still not thinking outside the box.

Uranium-fueled Light Water Reactors are OBSOLETE. Newer designs are available, and could be put into mass production, using modular design, trucked to site, and be up and running within WEEKS. These newer designs use a far smaller quantity of uranium to be operational, and when the energy is down to a level where useful heat is no longer available, the module is pulled out, sent back to the manufacturer, and recycled with a new charge of nuclear fuel. And the land requirements? We are talking about less than ten acres for a multiple installation, to perhaps no more than an acre for a specialized application, like a remote area, or a military post.


14 posted on 02/24/2023 4:17:40 AM PST by alloysteel (Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov)
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To: alloysteel

Agreed. Modern solutions to obsolete nuclear power technical problems are readily available. But the Left has salted the ground so thoroughly that nobody is even allowed to discuss them.

We (the US) should be world leaders in this technology, but that is not allowed either.


16 posted on 02/24/2023 11:41:10 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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