Comment on China’s Nuclear-Powered Containership: A Fluke Or The Future Of Shipping?

Nomecks@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bogdugg@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Supposedly, a meltdown at sea is pretty low risk because you have the perfect heatsink literally everywhere around you, and its a molten salt design, which I think(?) (source: my ass) means that the fuel would at worst leak into the sea and immediately solidify back into some inert state.

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  • lovesickoyster@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and its a molten salt design, which I think(?) (source: my ass) means that the fuel would at worst leak into the sea and immediately solidify back into some inert state.

    tmsr design has a freeze plug, a part of fuel that has to constantly be actively below freezing temperature and if something goes wrong the fuel is just dumped into a separate container where the reactivity drops to zero. It never leaves the system.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well yeah but most accidents at sea actually happen fairly close to where there are people. At ports/canals as opposed to just in the middle of nowhere.

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  • Municipal0379@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    source: my ass

    Be careful you can get stuck in the swamp!!! Lol

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• occhionaut@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah no fucking shot this works out.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never heard of a nuclear powered u-boot?

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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  • romkube@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    youtu.be/cYj4F_cyiJI?feature=shared

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