Oh yeah, and fuck Bill Gates ya lizard
Comment on UK small nuclear competition: Rolls Royce in, Bill Gates snubbed
Porka_911@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Good. Now let’s put the tender to a BRITISH company. British pound paying for a British company, with British jobs and tried and tested British engineers. Did I mention British?
Porka_911@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 year ago
Did you have one in mind?
Porka_911@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Any one of the three British companies pitching.
Spambox@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In this case though, RR does have the experience and means to do it. They already make SMRs for submarines.
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
There’s 12 sat in old subs in Plymouth at the moment. Not sure they are RR though?
I’ve often wondered if they could be repurposed
plymouthherald.co.uk/…/devonport-dockyards-12-nuc…
stevecrox@kbin.social 1 year ago
Wikipedia lists all 12 subs as having Rolls Royce Pressured Water Reactors.
Your PWR reuse idea is is kind of where Rolls Royce is looking to go with Small Modular Reactors (https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx).
I suspect refurbishing decades old PWR reactors would be far more expensive than just building new ones, for example a SpaceX Merlin engine costs $1 million and a Blue Origin BE-4 costs $15 million. Nasa argued it would be 'cheaper' to reuse Shuttle components for the Space Launch System (SLS). Refurbishing Shuttle RS-25 engines has cost Nasa $50 million dollars per engine, restarting a production line is costing $100 million for each new RS-25 engine.
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 year ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimov_VK-1
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bit of a difference between a foreign startup you can’t control getting very close to them and RR, a company they can control and who isn’t reliant on them, doing a project for them.
This really isn’t the gotcha you think it is, sorry.