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[quote user="LogginLocos"]He named it the X-12 and the only thing stopping the project was money.[/quote] And a viable heat sink, trained crews, the railroad unions and the fact that the report COMPLETELY glosses over public health and safety.  The article that was linked by Mbinsewi cited the original study, available here: <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020157130;view=1up;seq=19">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020157130;view=1up;seq=19</a> A direct quote from the above: "The study was based on the efforts of three graduate students and three staff members.  The fields of training were physics and chemistry.  Gross errors in engineering judgement must therefore be attributed to the lack of engineering experience of the investigators." It is a good read to get a solid laugh.  Edit:  Your background would have to be in nuclear power to fully understand how utterly ridiculous this was.   Especially the part of about maintenance costs.  I actually had to stop reading.  So much is wrong with this..  The main problems are stated within the report.  They could only speak in generalities about reactors because it was all classified at the time.  They couldnt even get a cost figure for the fuel.   And none of them had engineering experience or training.  They probably couldnt get an engineer on board with this (pun intended). It makes a pretty neat model though.
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