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  1. WillE

    accidents or incidents regarding nuclear powered naval vessels

    Thank everyone for the postings, they have been very informative. The reason I posed the questions in the first postings had everything to do with California’s self imposed energy “crisis”. Of course they have not built a new power plant in the last 20 or so years while their population has...
  2. WillE

    accidents or incidents regarding nuclear powered naval vessels

    Thank you again for your valuable insight … I don’t want to seem to be gushing here but you have helped a lot. Actually your help has been in confirming some of the answers I had intuitively assigned to some of the questions. I was of the opinion that commercial reactors were non-economical...
  3. WillE

    accidents or incidents regarding nuclear powered naval vessels

    in regard to your response "The government can afford to spend a lot of money on the engineering of these systems, as they have no worries about turning profits like utilities do." I look at the facility that a commercial power company has to construct, complete with upstream emergency...
  4. WillE

    accidents or incidents regarding nuclear powered naval vessels

    given that a large part of the U.S. Navy is driven by nuclear "propulsion" and so little has been made through the years of any accidents or incidents concerning the heat source of this system of propulsion I am curious: 1> are any incidents or accidents regarding the heat...
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