Thoughts? Good idea? Doge apparently rubber stamped it so there’s that.

>US Army nuclear program
Uh…
>Mini nuclear reactors to power bases
Oh….
>being run by them with minimal safety over site to stick in who knows where
UH OH NOT AGAIN

I miss Daddy Rickover

>>63990456 (OP)
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ8cYheR5xo

what if the taliban had nuclear reactors?

>>63990475
Unironically, this. I don't trust the Army to match the autism that man instilled in his particular pet project in the Navy that still carries on to this day.

>>63990456 (OP)
>microreactors
It's amazing how technology progressed to this point. Personally, I'm excited on what we could do with these.

Alright lads you know the drill, grab your rods and heave!

>>63990497
How would they acquire them? How would they feed them? How would they maintain them?

>>63990456 (OP)
why?
just use solar
its cheaper, faster, more power

>>63990554
>cheaper
Microreactors have lower capital cost
faster
You have to set up a lot panels to have adequate power generation, which isn't fast. Microreactors are just powerplants on a truck in which it could be plugged to any existing infrastructure.
more power
Depends on how much area you need to set up the panels, which depends on how power hungry the base is. Also, solar panels are completely useless at night.

>>63990580
>Microreactors have lower capital cost
no they don't
panels are stupid fucking cheap now
its why china is rolling out the equivalent of several nuclear plants worth of solar per WEEK
>You have to set up a lot panels to have adequate power generation, which isn't fast.
you just have a machine lay them out
they are so cheap you don't even need to collect them afterwards if you want
>Depends on how much area you need to set up the panels
just lay more
>Also, solar panels are completely useless at night.
truck around some lithium
its not hard man

https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/1lj33mq/china_installs_more_solar_in_1_month_than_the/
>China installs more solar in 1 month than the total energy the US uses
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-breaks-records/104086640
>China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week

>>63990584
>its why china is rolling out the equivalent of several nuclear plants worth of solar per WEEK
my bad
its actually per DAY now
anyone still arguing for nuclear is fucking retarded

>>63990584
Let's set aside the majority of your stupidity, and focus on the fact we're talking about having a compact power source for a FOB that is very likely to be unideal for solar placement. Instead you want to have to ship around massive more amounts of material, and then batteries on top of that, because all you fucking know is solar.

>>63990584
Based retard

>>63990456 (OP)
TRISO is pretty retarded fuel. Each grain of uranium oxide is coated with 3 layers of carbon and silicon carbide that has high melt temp to self contain the melting and gassing fuel, slows and shield more of the neutron down at high temperature, therefore auto taper off and shut down from each grain of fuel to prevent melt down. As long as the muhreen stay away from the forbidden whoppers, everything will be just fine.
https://youtu.be/7gtog_gOaGQ?si=ITQlR8Vm6kp_SrrD
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2117/ML21175A152.pdf

>>63990591
>FOB
they always pick ideal locations for solar anyway
>Instead you want to have to ship around massive more amounts of material
it would be a few trucks extra and infinitely cheaper

>>63990607
>they always pick ideal locations for solar anyway
Do you know what a Forward Operating base is?
>it would be a few trucks extra and infinitely cheaper
And a microreactor is one truck.

>>63990611
>>63990580
>a microreactor is
>is
they are still fiction, whereas diesel and solar panels exist right now

>>63990456 (OP)
(Wo)manned entirely by 300 lb Shaniquas.

>>63990596
>forbidden jawbreaker

>>63990623
They just passed passive shut off tests

>>63990456 (OP)
sounds like mortar bait.

>>63990611
>Do you know what a Forward Operating base is?
they always pick a large cleared area
solar could be used as fencing/defense too

>>63990611
>And a microreactor is one truck.
one truck that costs hundreds of millions
vs a few trucks costing a few million

>>63990588
>China installs more solar in 1 month than the total energy the US uses
physically impossible and you are a retard for posting the "fact" without checking it
>71 GW of solar per year
the US uses over 26,000 TWh a year

>>63990584
>>63990588
Least pants-on-head retarded chinkshill btw

>>63990607
>Mortar round misses
>Takes out significant percentage of your power
>Have to wait for replacements for months
>Repeat over and over and over

vs

>True future tech
>Sits protected in a bunker

>>63990662
>the US uses over 26,000 TWh a year
physically impossible and you are a retard for posting the "fact" without checking it

>>63990687
>>Have to wait for replacements for months
you just have a spare semi loaded with panels
if a mortar round can take out even a noticeable percentage of your power then you didn't put enough panels down
i just don't think /k/ really grasps the cost difference
for the price of a tiny reactor you could get enough solar panels to power an entire fucking city

>>63990694
Now go away, chang.

>>63990697
Yeh bro im sure supply is gonna have it in their hearts to let us have spare semis filled with more solar panels to immediately get ruined by inaccurate IDF.

Cant wait for this to actually be rolled out instead by sheer retard factor

>>63990713
you aren't getting mini reactors
its just not happening lmao

>>63990713
>reactor gets hit
>everything is fucked

your next line is
>durr it won't get hit!

They used a nuclear reactor like that in Antarctica.
Cooling may be an issue in warmer areas.

>>63990713
I'm thinking solartard is either helmettard's or battleshiptard's new personality
only a schizo retard like that would so unequivocally and fervently attempt to push such a monumentally stupid setup that would collapse with a single barrage of common HE-frag

>>63990717
Sorry sister. It’s in a dirt bunker. Far more hardened than the miles of panels laying out in the open. By the time we’re taking proper munitions to lose a hardened reactor we’re already fucked
>>63990722
>Listing nameniggers
>Implying I know or care who they were

>>63990734
>It’s in a dirt bunker. Far more hardened than the miles of panels laying out in the open
might even be made mobile, if they can fit it all in a HEMTT

>>63990722
if your fob is getting barraged with HE then its already over man

>FOB
why do they keep insisting on this shit?
literally making yourself a sitting duck begging to get raped

>>63990739
>Just move your solar panels over and over
A truely Big Army TM answer right there. Someone give this man a siggyniggy commissioj

>>63990746
getting barraged with HE is nothing to be very bothered with
getting struck by a bunker-buster, IS

>>63990758
Learn to read, stay in school.

>>63990734
they're not nameniggers, as a matter of fact they explicitly HATE being named, they're lolcows.

>>63990584
Why do renewable shills regularly ignore topography and the fact that land is a limited resource, you already have the greedy government controlling millions of acres of land for defence installations and what not, you really want to give them the carte blanche to gobble up more land for setting up renewable energy farms?

>>63990747
Because brownoids are violent idiots who just want to kill Americans so its fantastic bait to lure them out.

If the enemie overruns the fob couldn’t they then use it to leak radiation

>>63990806
oh nooooo the enemy is using bunker busters against tiny reactors in FOBs!

Better invest in solar!
>cluster munitions
ruh roh

dumb as hell
if one catches a missile, you've just fucked the entire area

>>63990955
It's a simple matter of which threat is more common. Hajis with DJI drones or airbursting HE frag RPGs are way way waaaay more common than enemkes with bunker buster bombs.

And this without discussing the land area requirements. Solar for expeditionary military basing is just plain retarded.

>>63990464
SL1 had something like 80% of its control on the central rod. It was a magical time back then. I don't think anyone's repeated that mistake since then, even in an experimental format.
>as a reminder, sl1 was indeed an experiment
>turns out it's a bad idea to have that much control on a single rod
>and now we know

>>63991219
Bro if the enemy wants to waste their bunker busters on missions to bonk my shitty little FOB while i sit in a conex box crankin it, they can have my little buried science project.

>>63990497
You can’t maintain reactors if you’re running away to pakistan.

Why do chink shills have to insert themselves into everything?

>>63991393
Compensation mostly

>>63990554
You can't bury solar to protect it from enemy ordnance.

>>63990623
>Carrier warfare is unproven, we should keep building battleships

I swear I read about this in Popular Mechanics in like, high school, 2006 or something, conex-sized nuclear reactors that were self-shielding fusion reactions and could be placed onto standard infrastructure vehicles and sent to power a FOB. I also seem to remember reading an article in the last decade about self-shielding fusion reactors not working the way they had hoped. Either way I'm sure someone in marketing and sales at some MIC are happy about the press coverage. It is a neat idea because we could then power neighborhoods and cities like that, but I'll believe it when I see it actually exist.

Does this absolute nigger brained retard faggot actually believe he's convincing anyone that a huge, complex, time consuming, easy to break (((chinese))) solar panel installation makes more sense than a single small reactor?

Buddy, you or whoever it is you support or whoever it is that pays you is always going to lose because you actually believe anyone would fall for that shit.

>>63990554
Solar panels can be shot. You can have a reactor in a bunker and run cables underground to other facilities which at least partially insulates them from sabotage and direct damage from enemy fire.

>>63990647
>solar could be used as fencing/defense too
Are you legit retarded?

>>63990697
>just have a spare semi loaded with panels
So hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting in the dark doing nothing?
The cost of a nuclear reactor is it's size, safety measures and regulation, especially regarding fuel. Army can basically do all that in house, so still retarded wasteful, but not nearly as much as installing a civilian station designed to provide 20% of the power to an entire regional grid.

>>63990588
你有三厘米长的阴茎,你的祖母是日本慰安妇。
她喜欢这样

>>63992002
>The cost of a nuclear reactor is it's size, safety measures and regulation
It's literally just shitty regulations. All atomic energy "overseers" do is extort hundreds of millions of dollars out of companies looking to build reactors, via mountains of paperwork.
With one notable exception, the bugpeople atomic energy overseer, which is run in a manner resembling the old AEC in the 1950s, namely "shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down". Reminder that the bugpeople are quite literally building as many reactors as their foundries can forge (they don't want to use foreign foundries because of the closed cycle economy thing they've built around nuclear).

>>63990456 (OP)
Yeah, since the 50s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R51FGCPiZJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NH2AUAnzf8&t=15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPWDMHH4rY4

>>63990720
Just install a car door and roll down the window when it gets too warm

>>63990596
>As long as the muhreen
Stop here, go no further. It will.

Verification not fuckin even REQUIRED.

>>63990456 (OP)
>Nuclear reactor
Sounds good
>Powering bases
Less good, that sounds suspiciously like Airstrike fodder.
>Dodge rubber stamped
And now I'm worried.

>>63991856
>The future of warfare is aircraft carriers
>Circa 1912
There's a difference between infeasible and outright nonexistence

>>63990456 (OP)
Might have been a good idea back when the US Army was mostly white. Definitely not a good idea today.

>>63990596
>implying I won’t go in there while piss drunk
>implying I won’t take the entire reactor with the boys, giggling all the way back to our side of the FOB
Tactically acquired. If STALKER taught me anything, vodka should reduce my radiation poisoning.

>>63990504
i dont think you understand

the micro reactors are the same rods they invented decades ago

the jewish mind parasite tricked the world into going hotter and hotter with rods
when all you need is a nice steady boil

The rods have a short lifespan but they are easy to swap (a water tank with hot rods in it that glow themselves)
instead of building a major major plant that cant even handle a "meltdown" which is really the cooling system (water) isnt enough to keep the rods from melting the chamber they are in

again
just light rods with easy to manage waterflow
the rods are not super mega jewish genius rods
so you just swap them in a few years

>>63990720
>PM-3A
A cool idea for the time, but massively constrained in safety testings. According to one documentary I saw, a fair number of engineers and technicians would obtain specific types of cancer later on. Apparently the reactor had leaks all over.

>>63990476
TPBP. We've been working on this shit since the 50s, it's nothing new.

>>63992157
The DOE and DOD expect their designs to be operational this year and next, respectively.

>>63990554
Solar is trash

>>63990554
>solar
Gay hippy nonsense.

>>63990588
>Chinese solar
Just like Chinese cars and Chinese buildings, they have a shelf life of like 5 years because the Chinese don't build anything to last, its the reason why their dam gets so memed.

>>63990596
How many can fit in an regulation asshole?

>>63992442
They're tennis ball sized, so only for the brave/experienced

Great website to track these developments.
All branches have been interested in small modular reactors for awhile. Unfortunately they aren't real until hooked to the grid.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/tagsection?tagid=894

>>63990456 (OP)
is this a proposal that was lost behind a filing cabinet in 1955 and only just now unearthed?