[HN Gopher] The U.S. Army Tried Portable Nuclear Power at Remote...
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The U.S. Army Tried Portable Nuclear Power at Remote Bases 60 Years
Ago
Author : bcaulfield
Score : 12 points
Date : 2021-08-31 21:37 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com)
| andyxor wrote:
| the most successful "portable" nuclear reactors are those on
| nuclear submarines, they have been in continuous operation for
| more than 60 years with very few incidents
| credit_guy wrote:
| It looks like the Department of Defense is considering such
| reactors again [1], and the author of this article is very much
| against it. So much so that he published this exact same article
| at least 3 times before [2], [3], [4].
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| [1] https://www.defensenews.com/smr/energy-and-
| environment/2021/...
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| [2] https://theconversation.com/the-us-army-tried-portable-
| nucle...
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| [3] https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/07/project-pele-the-
| military-...
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| [4] https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-is-trying-to-
| bui...
| mjevans wrote:
| It really does read like a scare mongering fear article.
| Including mention of problems but no concrete followup with
| current details, or at the very least a mention of no
| resolution to the issue as of a specific time of fact-finding.
| Retric wrote:
| It's common for identical articles to be on different websites,
| most famously thousands of newspapers used to publish the same
| comics. Either their owned by the same company or he sold them
| multiple time.
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