https://news.yahoo.com/coming-soon-open-source-blueprints-155100604.html
As someone who worked for 25+ years in the military and civilian nuclear industries, I can attest that this would be a HORRIBLE idea.
Each and every reactor is a waste generation plant and a plutonium production facility. None of its products and byproducts are benign, and most are dangerous to the point of lethality.
Here are some things I learned during my nuclear career:
- No design is foolproof.
- No as-built plant functions the way it's supposed to.
- Safety always takes a back seat to profitability.
- Humans make STUPID decisions all the time.
- The true life-cycle costs of a nuclear facility, including storage of the waste it generates, are unknown but almost certainly exceed any value the facility may have while it's operating.
Don't buy this open-source concept. It's just another "too cheap to meter" scam.
Here is another aspect of this horrible idea - mobile military reactors:
ReplyDeletehttps://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-award-mobile-nuclear-reactor-090011049.html
If overrun by the enemy (and we seem to have many enemies), these could be stolen and used as radiological weapons against us. It's just not worth the risk.
Why do we need military bases everywhere anyway? Do they make us any safer? Absolutely not !!!