(02-26-2023, 02:30 PM)DJC date Wrote:I'll make it easy for you; how are the reactors on the latest Virginia and Astute class nuclear powered submarines cooled?You keep presenting examples of designs from the 80s and 90s and using them to talk down current and future technologies.
It's like using the steam powered horseless carriage as a reason not to have an EV.
By the way though the Virginia class nicely supports my longevity argument, they are expected to remain in service until 2070 from first launch in the early 2000s. But how can that be, the Renewable Apparatchik's tell use nuclear power plants have to be decommissioned after an average service life of 30 years? Is it because they want to compound all the environment overheads into 3 decades to make the emissions overhead twice the real world case?
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"