The real frontier is the modular nuclear plants that are about the size of a very small factory. They can be shipped in on a couple of trucks and put together very quickly. Each one could run a small city. If more power is needed, you get another one. When the fuel cells are spent, you ship it back to the factory to be decommissioned. There are a lot more “economies of scale” with the modular reactors. Problem is.... there are no facilities built yet that I know of that will build these modular plants. But they are meant to be more enticing to investors because of their smaller size and affordability.
The real issue is....... there aren’t enough people who can run them. You have to be very bright to operate reactors. most conventional land plants don’t even let college graduates operate them (they do maintenance for years). A lot of the operators come from the Navy. But with IQ scores falling, colleges allowing everyone in (and thereby rigor in the classroom content declining) there is a question about how you can even have them if there isn’t a workforce smart enough to operate them.
There, fixed it. The whole idea is the entire plant can be made in a factory and returned to a factory for refurbishment.
That size plant would also make nuclear powered ships a commercial reality.
Only refuel with a new plant every thirty years. The ship is designed to make installation and removal easy. The design is facilitated with easy access to virtually unlimited water for cooling.
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Enhanced safety protocols may include new plants programmed to initiate an emergency shutdown if the unwelcome personal pronoun alarm is pressed. New recruits are being trained in this as a priority issue. Thus your concern about lack of unqualified operators is based upon misinformation. /sarc