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To: TimF who wrote (293)	7/2/2022 11:52:21 PM
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"This isn’t the only way of building a reactor, and many experts think that other reactor technology would have been better suited for power station construction. Light water reactors came to dominate because it was the technology being used by the US Navy, who in turn chose it because it had useful properties for ship-based reactors (for instance, another technology being considered used liquid sodium as the reactor coolant. This was ultimately deemed unsuitable for naval reactors, since sodium reacts violently with water.) For historical reasons, it was deemed important to develop the US’s civilian nuclear power sector quickly, and so existing light water reactor technology was used." - - - - - - A Thorium reactor ran just fine at Oak Ridge back in the day. No cooling tower necessary, they even shut it down when they went home at night. Rickover's nuclear sub construction requirements have hampered civilian nuclear power development ever since. That said, US Navy Nuclear Submarines and their Crews are impressive!

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