Comment by quotemstr
16 hours ago
Submarine reactors run on super high enriched fuel instantly one could instantly repurpose into a bomb. Lots of gen 4 and 5 reactor designs that combine low cost, compact footprint, and running on less expensive and carefully controlled fuel.
French have some LEU submarines. They seem to be pretty good on paper. Needs refueling every ten years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffren-class_submarine
France also built full-sized commercial plants rather than batteries of small reactors. That's because scale matters for efficient production.
That is rapidly changing.
https://onu-vienne.delegfrance.org/Nuclear-power-and-SMR-are...
https://regulation-oversight.asnr.fr/oversight/small-modular...
Cool! Thanks