China already has Gen IV commercial reactors, this'll be rehashed Gen II but without guardrails. On the bright side those bastards take a decade+ to come online, by which time this may have blown over, if not there'll be worse problems. Also on the bright side, I don't live in the US.

Golden opportunity for small (thorium so no fission bomb materials) reactor in a container designs to have their day, but noooo. Sigh.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

those bastards take a decade+ to come online, by which time this may have blown over

Par for the course: send billions of dollars to friends of those in power, then eventually decide not to care about results

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What’s a co-efficence reactor? Don’t think I’ve ever heard that term

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing he's talking about a fusion reactor that produces more power than it consumes (a "positive power coefficient").

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Fusion, nope. This is old school fission baby. If they get fusion up they deserve the genius tag.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If that's really what @givesomefucks meant, then I have no idea what the hell a "positive power co-efficience" is (other than a made-up/misspelled word).

...maybe a breeder reactor?

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I’m thinking a literal pile of uranium

[–] Damarus@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

They might be referring to the void coefficient, but that's just one part of reactor safety.