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Originally posted by Sailor FNQ: ↑

All good points there Pugs.
But hey, these small self contained reactors have been around for 60 plus years.
The Russians had them in Northern Siberia in the 60's.
Surely there's a market for them now?
Especially with the world's perceived hatred towards fossil fuels.
Or is the smart money (China, India, Japan, Korea etc), still staying with coal for the next 30 years?

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If the septics went to a LEU, they would need to be refuelled earlier than the current timeframe.

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Originally posted by pugsley100: ↑

I can't see what's so difficult about this subject.

I think the military have different considerations where cost might not be so important.
Also the fuel they use is of higher enrichment than what a power station uses because of space limitations.
Additionally it's highly unlikely that the military would want their nuclear rectors available for just anyone to use.

One of the problems facing developers of smr's for connection to the grid is getting the cost of a unit of electricity to be competitive with other forms of generation. Especially now that we are in an environment of higher interest rates and coming off a post pandemic supply problems.

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Yes pugs, the septics use HEU, so if they sold one to some country, it could potentially make a nuke weapon, from it., bye bye non proliferation.

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