"Montblack" wrote in message
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("Gig 601XL Builder" wrote)
I agree completely, almost. Use the McNukes for electrical generation on
a city by city basis. We have the ability to build very small, very
efficient reactors. We do it all the time and if you live near a Naval
base there is one or more floating out there in the harbor.


I almost completely agree with you too.

Still SMALLER though! Not city by city, but smaller (think KFC or Taco
Bell size).

Single large users would each have one - Twin Cities Ford Assembly Plant
would have one - if they didn't already have a power-producing dam on the
Mississippi River. Bio-Diesel/Ethanol plants would have one. Steel plant
gets one. Mall of America would have a McNuke Plant. Etc, etc.

Twin Cities (50 miles x 50 miles) might have approx. 20 or 30 of these
things humming along. Also, no 'line loss' is not an insignificant gain to
factor in - with my McNuke Plant (MacArthur Fellows 'genius grant') plan.

Maybe I've only taken a bite out of 20% of the need for juice in the Twin
Cities, but it's a 20% that wasn't there yesterday.

IMHO, it's easier to keep a handle on construction costs when the
cookie-cutter plants are so small (tiny) ...and private industry is buying
the darn things.


You could well be right. I have no idea how much electricity can be produced
by a reactor in say a Ohio class sub. But what ever is done it needs to be
the same few designs used everywhere.

Back when they were building new nuke plants they were pretty much starting
from scratch on each one. That is just plain silly.