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Floating nuclear power plants to be mass produced for US coastline
UK-based Core Power has announced that it plans to mass produce a fleet of floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs) using advanced reactor design and modular shipbuilding to be anchored off the US coast in about 10 years.
To get around this as well as speed up production, Core Power plans to use Generation 4 reactor design combined with conventional modular shipbuilding methods to crank out floating nuclear plants on an assembly line basis. The heart of these atomic Liberty ships is a compact molten salt reactor, which is an advanced version of a design first developed in the 1950s. Though it has its disadvantages, molten salt reactors have the pluses of being compact, mechanically simple, are cooled largely by passive circulation, and aren't prone to runaway nuclear meltdowns – which should make the neighbors happy.
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