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leonidasrupyesterday at 4:36 PM1 replyview on HN

There are many kinds of Gen IV reactors. Which of the Gen IV reactors would you prefer? Which Gen IV reactor can not melt down, even if explicitly sabotaged?


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cogman10yesterday at 5:42 PM

> Which of the Gen IV reactors would you prefer?

TBH, probably the SCWR. They seem like the easiest to build without a lot of new surprises.

> Which Gen IV reactor can not melt down, even if explicitly sabotaged?

One like the BREST. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREST_(reactor) . Funnily my preferred reactor, the SCWR, would probably not be immune to some sabotage, specifically explosives around the reactor. But a reactor which uses a metal coolant would be. It just so happens that the nature of a SCWR cooled with water means that the reactor core has to be much beefier anyways, so it's a lot harder to really damage even if that was an explicit goal.