[AR] Re: MSR reactors.
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 14:06:52 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019, Anthony Cesaroni wrote:
I like the design for ground base power production.
It's got a number of advantages, not least the option of doing continuous
fuel reprocessing -- stripping out troublesome fission products etc. as
they form, rather than letting them hang around to cause trouble.
To quote Mahaffy, "we're caught in the Rickover trap" ...
Rickover has a lot to answer for. At the end of Polmar&Moore's "Cold War
Submarines", they quote a Russian sub designer on how it was that the US's
huge lead in submarine technology steadily shrank, until the last Soviet
prototypes were pretty much the equal of the US's best: "We had
competition in submarine design. You had Stalinism!"
(Rickover not only crushed all submarine concepts rivaling his own, but on
at least a couple of occasions, he did his best to erase them completely
from history.)
Henry
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