https://www.ans.org/news/2025-04-14/article-6931/us-advances-microreactor-program-for-military-sites/

>desert CG
Hopefully it'll scarify efficiency to rely on water. Otherwise those lil niggas are gonna discover that you need +4000 liters of water per MWh.

>>64064711
to avoid rely on water.*

>>64064711
You only need helium gas for microreactors.

>>64064699 (OP)
just put up a couple solar panels. they're in a fucking desert with a shit ton of sun.

>>64064740
I'm not talking about the reactor itself but to the heat sink to use as working fluid or cool the reactor and generate mechanical work.
Water is more efficient than air unless you're willing to operate at red hot temperature and out-gas something OSHA will not like...

>>64064779
Just watch this to know the mechanics behind microreactors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtog_gOaGQ&pp=ygUqdHJpc28gZnVlbCBleHBsYW5hdGlvbiBpbGxpbm9pcyBlbmVyZ3lwcm9m

>>64064699 (OP)
Doesn't Fort Wainwright already have one of these? The base up in Fairbanks, Alaska?

Terrorists be like
>FREE DIRTY BOMB!

Alright lads, you know the drill.

GRAB YOUR RODS, AND HEAVE H

>>64064883
retard

>>64064699 (OP)
man, can't wait to see other countries act like total fags about this... doesn't matter how safe it actually is

I'll care when they get Fusion working the US has 2 grid scale projects that have broken ground but i've got no idea if they are even at the working prototype stage for the actual fusion power generator.

>>64064883
Federal Protective Forces would like to know your location.

>>64064699 (OP)
DOW chemical wants to get 3 for a single petrochem plant in Texas. One of them just to produce steam for process heat. I am raising my kids to exclude all nuclear skeptics from their lives.

>>64065118
You are a good parent.

>>64064699 (OP)
Post your nuclear powered ground vehicle

>>64064901
New Zealand already pissing and shitting itself in fear despite not even having any US bases

>>64065138
Some one has to build the space elevators. Might as well be them.

>>64065141
Does this count?

>>64065018
30 more years bro

>>64065141
This reactors are only 1.2MW. Or to put it another way 30x times weaker than they'd need to be to fire a single jet engine.
The dream is dead.

>>64064699 (OP)
Pretty cool. Secretary of Energy is a SMR guy, so not surprising shit like this is finally moving forward.

>>64064779
If the thermal output isn't fuckhuge (Which it shouldn't be for a microreactor), a convection based heatsink will do the trick.

>>64064844
Kek