NuScale's nuclear reactor looks suspiciously like an old design, (that melted down) « nuclear-news
Why Does NuScale SMR Look Like a 1964 Drawing of Swiss Lucens Nuclear Reactor (which suffered a major meltdown in 1969)? Whatever NuScale is, or is not, it clearly isn’t “new”. The Bible must have foreseen the nuclear industry when it said that there was no new thing under the sun. While there might be something new about it, certainly its scale is not. And, it seems mostly a remake of old military reactors, perhaps with influence from swimming pool reactors. The main ancestor seems to be the US Army’s SM-1, made by the American Locomotive Company, making its most distant ancestor ...
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