Oddbean new post about login | logout @f9408be4 They still have a working Naval Submarine reactor out there; it's buried underground (it's the actual reactor compartment from an LA-Class Sub, I think) and is used to train new Engineers and Techs on our Non-Refuelable Sub Reactor Tech. They have simulators out there too, and other training stuff. I'm glad they do this, US Navy has never had a reactor incident... unlike the Russians... (K-19, Cough Cough, 3 Sub Implosions/detonations)
@b2e3a57d Thanks for the "boots-on-the-ground" info! TYFYC
@f9408be4 No problem. Now, if/when I talk about how back in High School, the University-Track Math/Physics/Chem students would talk about various "reactor designs", you won't think I'm either insane, or making things-up. We were, at that time in the 80s, working-on ideas related to liquid-metal compound cooling-loops for reactors, and safety systems. And we all knew that it was stuff that we weren't to be talking-about. I enjoy seeing where it's going. Have a few friends in it.
@f9408be4 One of my best friends went to MIT, and elsewhere, and I know he's involved in the reactor thing, (his Dad was a Senior Engineer at then E, G&G, a principal Naval Reactor Contracting firm. But we don't talk about that; when we talk. He knows I KNOW we can't be talking about that.