Small Reactor - ideal for any number of sci-fi scenarios?

[Atheist-Lite]

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-We ... 02117.html

The 200 MWe design is an integrated pressurized water reactor (PWR) in which all primary components are located inside the reactor pressure vessel. It is designed to be completely fabricated in the factory and is scaled to be shippable by rail. The Westinghouse SMR's passive safety systems and components draw on those developed in the design of the AP1000, the company's full-scale PWR currently under construction at Haiyang and Sanmen in China and earmarked for new build projects at Vogtle and VC Summer in the USA.

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You can power the mall with this beauty even after the zombies attack? or put one on a spaceship and go to mars?

[Azathoth]

Power the mall? Fuck that. Use someone who has been bitten get it to a high concentration of Zs and set the fucker to blow.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We used to lug a generator to a small island we partied on off Puerto Rico. Having one of those would have made our boom boxes into death machines.

[Mysturji]

Set it for "China Syndrome", stand back and wait.
The tiny core melts through the sheilding and down through the Earth's crust... all the way down... until you get a teeny tiny 1/2 inch diameter volcano like a vertical lava pressure-washer squirting magma into orbit.

[Rum]

Handy takeaway Islamic terrorist model available yet?

[Ian]

How cost-efficient is it? Do you get more bang for your buck?

[Atheist-Lite]

Having put all the primary parts on the inside I assume they've no plans to fix it should there be a critical system malfunction? and that's a cost saving straight off !!!

[mistermack]

I thought that tiny reactors were not new? What do they have in nuclear subs, and aircraft carriers?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I thought that tiny reactors were not new? What do they have in nuclear subs, and aircraft carriers?

They had one on Cassini. 27 pounds of plutonium.

[Atheist-Lite]

Commercial small reactors are new?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Commercial small reactors are new?

Nah, Popular Science has been predicting they'll be available widely next year.

And they've been doing that since at least 1946.

[mistermack]

I don't think there is such a thing as a commercial reactor. They don't produce electricity at a commercial rate. On land anyway. Maybe they are the most commercial way of powering a sub, or carrier, or space craft though.