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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bogdugg@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoSupposedly, 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.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Municipal0379@lemmy.world 5 months ago
source: my ass
Be careful you can get stuck in the swamp!!! Lol
lovesickoyster@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.