They’re going call themselves geniuses for “discovering” positive power co-efficence reactors, I guarantee it.
It’s 100% on track for them to throw out all safety measures and use dangerous outdated technology, but package it as new and better.
China already has Gen IV commercial reactors, this’ll be rehashed Gen II but without guardrails. On the bright side those bastards take a decade+ to come online, by which time this may have blown over, if not there’ll be worse problems. Also on the bright side, I don’t live in the US.
Golden opportunity for small (thorium so no fission bomb materials) reactor in a container designs to have their day, but noooo. Sigh.
What’s a co-efficence reactor? Don’t think I’ve ever heard that term
I’m guessing he’s talking about a fusion reactor that produces more power than it consumes (a “positive power coefficient”).
Fusion, nope. This is old school fission baby. If they get fusion up they deserve the genius tag.
If that’s really what @givesomefucks meant, then I have no idea what the hell a “positive power co-efficience” is (other than a made-up/misspelled word).
…maybe a breeder reactor?
