Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 13/12/2024 10:09, D wrote:

  On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, Lars Poulsen wrote:
 

On 2024-12-12, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

I wonder if they could use the model from some SMR startup for ships? A reactor
that is preloaded and welded shut. Then it operates for its entire lifetime
until the fuel is used up, and then you change to a new reactor.

 That is sort of the model used on the submarines ... and on the NS
Savannah in the early 1960s. From what I have read, it could be
commercially viable today (with the improvements in relevant technology
in the last 60 years).
 

 Thank you. Let's see... there is much interest in the SMR. Let's see who will be the first to take the step among the EU members.

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Well UK isn't EU, but it is likely that RR who built reactors for Britains nuclear submarines, will have something in production by 2030 or thereabouts. There is considerable interest from several EU nations- the Czechs are in there too, as are the Poles, and Dutch.
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France is solid EDF big scale and Germany is in a total mess at the moment as their green policy collapses.
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I think by 2030 at least three  possibly four reactor designs will be out there working commercially across Europe and SE aAsia and probably Africa too.

Would be excellent! As long as someone takes the first step, usually the rest will follow. =)