Comment on What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now?

SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Vanth@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The two nuclear developmemts I’m watching closest are the test molten salt reactor in Oak Ridge, TN and just recently heard about a new permit to build one for Abilene Christian University in Texas.

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  • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Molten salt sounds like a terrible design for modular, the whole problem is if it loses power it freezes solid, you’d want a huge one with tons of backup imho.

    I’d imagine a tiny pebble bed or traveling wave, something fairly inert and safe.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There have been others building a prototype or research reactor, but the M in SMR also stands for mass-produced and nobody got even close to that.

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