Name: 原発は水に浮いている...ちょっと待ってください。 (Nuclear Power Plants Are Floating on Water…Wait What?)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T09:58:38.000Z
Duration: 4 min 25 s
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- Nuclear power is one option to free humanity

from our dependence on fossil fuels for energy.

So a few countries are aggressively pursuing nuclear power

with reactors to serve as mobile power plants.

Is this idea ingenious or a disaster waiting to happen?

China is reportedly starting construction

It's expected to be hooked up to the grid

Now, I know there are some keywords in there

that set off alarm bells for some of you.

Particularly, the words: Russia and nuclear power.

in the history of nuclear energy occurred

For some, this forever tainted nuclear energy

A floating reactor can be tugged to a new location

or it can bring power to remote parts of the world.

First and most obvious is the motion of the ocean.

to keep the reactor temperatures at safe levels

even as the whole system pitches and rolls around.

with heavy concrete containment vessels over them

to prevent radioactive material from escaping

solving the containment issue makes the ship heavier,

The good news for anyone losing sleep over this

is we have a lot of experience with atomic power at sea.

the submarine, USS Nautilus, launched in 1954.

have built hundreds of nuclear-powered submarines

The U.S. Navy has a stellar safety record

and a number of serious accidents resulted

Since the late 1970s though, safety and reliability

became a priority, and their track record improved.

There are also several Russian operated icebreakers

that rely on nuclear power that are in service right now.

and years of accumulated experience in mind,

of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Dale Klein,

think fears about a floating Chernobyl are overblown.

maybe it will lead to more offshore reactor designs.

MIT even floated their own idea for one back in 2015,

Their concept was to combine a nuclear reactor

with the same kind of cylindrical platforms

only, giant and with a nuclear reactor inside.

The MIT researchers believe they could be mass produced

and deployed easily, making them much less costly

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原発は水に浮いている...ちょっと待ってください。 (Nuclear Power Plants Are Floating on Water…Wait What?)

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