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> Nuclear power will never be safe

Mmmhhmm. We've had extremely safe, sufficiently compact and mobile nuclear power since the 50s. We know they're safe because navy personnel on nuclear subs / ships have lived long healthy lives. In fact, the commander of the first US nuclear sub (commissioned in 1954) went on to also command the first nuclear ship. He got to live 94 years!

I thought the heliotail's shape was more determined by the pattern of ejection from the sun. Faster particles from the poles, slower from the equator, in a "puffing" sequence.

Because there is no way to decarbonise without nuclear energy doing the “heavy lifting”- keep in mind this is only for energy purposes. This does nothing for the other uses of hydrocarbons.

Renewables are not a viable solution to providing consistent clean energy- as abundant as wind, flowing water, and photons are, the machinery used to convert to electricity don’t produce enough, long enough, or consistently enough. Nuclear energy provides energy at any time of day, any load, any external environmental factor. Doesn’t give a shit. And with people mass buying electric cars, on top of consuming electricity as normal, our infrastructure is in for one hell of a ride.

I don’t get why this is such a hard concept for the Reddit hive mind to understand. You can’t power a country exclusively on solar panels and windmills. We need nuclear energy. It’s a no brainer. The longer we argue the longer the transition is delayed.

The reason I relate it as such is because a comet’s tail doesn’t trail parallel to its trajectory, but rather parallel with the sun’s rays. As the heliotail’s orientation and shape are determined by the Interstellar Magnetic Field’s direction and strength

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RR SMRs is a separate company to RR now (majority owned by RR still), so SMRs and microreactors will be developed concurrently and independently.

Either way, if they wait until SMRs hit the big time to dump money into microreactors it will be far too late and Westinghouse (eVinci) or someone else will have already dominated the market.

The space propulsion side is really nothing to do with RR and I don't think they are developing it as there is no expertise for that. They are simply providing new reactors, as they have done for 60 years.

Thank you, good distinction.

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The heliotail isn't comet-like. It's made up of particles from the sun, but it points in four directions, like a four-leaf clover. It is not affected by the sun's motion around the galaxy.

But the sheer weight of solar panels on a rocket make it unusable.

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The ice tail from a comet is because the sunlight pushes on the ice. The tail always points away from the sun, no matter which way the comet is moving.

I personally have my suspicions that the anti-nuclear “movement” is ultimately funded by fossil fuel interests gaslighting as environmentalists

Nuclear power will never be safe and it's unnecessary. We can easily power the entire world with solar.

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Awesome I’ll for sure put that on my TBR

Rolls-royce. Good so that means I'll never be able to afford that

I guess the point is that it's a form of socialism for the nuclear energy industry.

>the soviet union never was anti nuclear either

The Soviet Union was never anti-nuclear for itself.

However, the anti-nuclear movement in the West was at least encouraged, if not partially funded, by the USSR, especially when it came to nuclear weapons. But it also spilled into nuclear power generation.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |ESA|European Space Agency| |ICBM|Intercontinental Ballistic Missile| |Isp|Specific impulse (as explained by Scott Manley on YouTube)| | |Internet Service Provider| |JPL|Jet Propulsion Lab, California| |MON|Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen| |NTR|Nuclear Thermal Rocket| |RTG|Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator|

|Jargon|Definition| |-------|---------|---| |Raptor|Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX|

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Do you think once the company has SMR's, they aren't going to dump more money into R&D for microreactors?

With the amount of talk around mining asteroids, if RR developed a spacefairing propulsion system they'd explode in market value.

Yes but many countries can now supply it or is that a dumb thing to say?