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Old 08-03-2021, 01:16 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I don't realy see how smaller nuclear reactors can be more cost effective, safe or efficient than larger ones.
That would be true for [a] scaled down light-water reactor[s].

If the smaller reactors were hand-built onsite instead of mass produced as light water reactors they would need the same containment. Molten salt reactors operate at atmospheric pressure and fail safe.

But they don't make bombs, so there is that. Why are long therms an issue?
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