Another benefit of Brexit.
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2 years ago
Another benefit of Brexit.
I would have thought though that the weight of such a reactor to be universally safe might eat into the cargo capacity of a vessel? Brian
Can't see the link TBH
No.
A complete Astute class sub is 7300 tons. The reactors are pretty small.
The 107,000 HP Wartzila marine diesel weighs 2300 tonnes
It can be managed with submarines and still leave room for the crew - and weapons systems
A panamax class container ship will get through 200 tonnes of diesel per day if running at full design speed. That is on top of 2000 tonnes of marine diesel engine. How much does a small ships reactor weigh?
EU has no policy for allowing nuclear ships at all.
Weight on a ship is not a big deal. Most of the weight in a reactor is the shielding anyway, otherwise they are power dense enough to fly aircraft!
Excellent. Small nuclear reactors are alredy in fairly widespread use; it will be good to see their use develop.
I thought your complaint was that the EU interfered too much in national matters: not that it was failing to.
No not *that* link :-)
Indeed. And it should be good for UK business, if it gets off the ground. I'd still predict some pretty tough competition, though. Not to mention all the opposition from the environmentalists, FFS.
I suppose that it is likely that unless a country has regulations covering marine nuclear reactors, when the first one turns up, the immediate response (amidst public concern) will be to temporarily ban all such vessels and start looking at such regulation.
It's good to get ahead of the game.
I take it the ports then, will be built on Mars.
(There aren't as many protesters on Mars.)
Paul
Oh dear. spin spin spin Shall I rephrase what I said? the EU specifically does not allow nuclear ships
Won't it make them more attractive targets for piracy and hijacking?
Why would it?
That's not what you said. Spot the difference:
(1) "EU has no policy for allowing nuclear ships at all." (2) "EU specifically does not allow nuclear ships"
You don't understand the legal system in te EU. But that isn't surprising. You dont understand anything really. In the EU Roman Law applies: if there isn't a law saying you can do it, its against the law. You are guilty until you are proved innocent
I've pointed this out to the likes of Pammy before; it obviously has a short attention span. But then, being a Septic, this is hardly surprising. It's probably never heard of Romans, never mind Roman Law.
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