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Originally Posted by Skybird
They had not been optimized for civilian/commercial use, since they were not intended for that, but for a different purpose: to fit into a limited space, and that's it.
Anyway, the point regarding these new small reactors as designed and planned for commercial use now is that their existence in shiops and submarines proves the principle safety of these. That is a major point in Germany, because as you know as good as I do many Germans turn immediately hysteric over the " high!-risk!- TECHNOLOGY!!!-ATOMKRAFT...!!! "
Germans... Next.
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Same here in Australia, the mere mention of the word Nuclear has everyone in panic mode, current Labour government has seen to that!!
Makes my blood boil.
So now we have to stare at thousands of ugly wind turbines defacing the countryside!