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Time to quote the late Admiral Rickover, again, who described the AP300 in quite a lot of detail back in 1953. [1]

"An academic reactor or reactor plant almost always has the following basic characteristics:

  1.  It is simple.
  2.  It is small.
  3.  It is cheap.
  4.  It is light.
  5.  It can be built very quickly.
  6.  It is very flexible in purpose (“omnibus reactor”)
  7.  Very little development is required. It will use mostly “off-the-shelf” components.
  8.  The reactor is in the study phase. It is not being built now."

1. https://whatisnuclear.com/rickover.html


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