They’re going call themselves geniuses for “discovering” positive power co-efficence reactors, I guarantee it.
It’s 100% on track for them to throw out all safety measures and use dangerous outdated technology, but package it as new and better.
China already has Gen IV commercial reactors, this’ll be rehashed Gen II but without guardrails. On the bright side those bastards take a decade+ to come online, by which time this may have blown over, if not there’ll be worse problems. Also on the bright side, I don’t live in the US.
Golden opportunity for small (thorium so no fission bomb materials) reactor in a container designs to have their day, but noooo. Sigh.
those bastards take a decade+ to come online, by which time this may have blown over
Par for the course: send billions of dollars to friends of those in power, then eventually decide not to care about results.
Yet somehow keeping underprivileged people from starving is “fraud, waste, and abuse”
What’s a co-efficence reactor? Don’t think I’ve ever heard that term
They might be referring to the void coefficient, but that’s just one part of reactor safety.
I’m guessing he’s talking about a fusion reactor that produces more power than it consumes (a “positive power coefficient”).
Fusion, nope. This is old school fission baby.
If that’s really what @givesomefucks meant, then I have no idea what the hell a “positive power co-efficience” is (other than a made-up/misspelled word).
…maybe a breeder reactor?
I’m thinking a literal pile of uranium
