Comments by "" (@DanielSMatthews) on "Nuclear submarine delivery 'taking shape': Richard Marles" video.

Yeah they actually do, it is called Law School, for a lot of them.
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We do that with every other aspect of our operations, so it seems a logical extension. I have stealth bombers flying past the front of my house, and they are the nuclear strike submarines of the sky.
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There is one other risk that is not being discussed in the video, others could be running compact fusion reactors before we see any custom fission powered sub unless we pay for what is already available to get it sooner. There are 17 seperate commercial fusion companies currently working on different approaches to the technology and billions per year are now being sunk into that technology pathway. Some of the designs proposed are very compact and do not produce a lot of radiation. The more compact the reactor the more room you have for weapons and supplies so that you can stay underwater and on the move for longer, many more months. This issue of technological obsolescence could happen far sooner than many people would expect, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GJtGpvE1sQ
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@bestestusername Note to self, don't buy Russian submarines, or or old soviet power plants.
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Deep down the saner parts of Labor know that we have no long term future without some type of nuclear technology.
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@petersinclair3997 The people who run AUKUS are literally one big family, as in actually related to each other.
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BAE have no expertise in nuclear fusion systems AFAIK. There is one other risk that is not being discussed in the video, others could be running compact fusion reactors before we see any custom fission powered sub unless we pay for what is already available to get it sooner. There are 17 seperate commercial fusion companies currently working on different approaches to the technology and billions per year are now being sunk into that technology pathway. Some of the designs proposed are very compact and do not produce a lot of radiation. The more compact the reactor the more room you have for weapons and supplies so that you can stay underwater and on the move for longer, many more months.
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@KIA-MIA-POW RR has an interest in fusion? I know they do compact modular fission reactors, but they will be obsolete unless we have subs within a decade or less. That is my point. BAE now own the company I worked for too, so I understand how the rest of the show works. It is just this issue of new technology and if we can leapfrog the old gear and go one better, or if we end up with white elephants.
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@stokersruleok5863 YT internal links are more likely to be allowed, but the "system" can act in bizarre ways and even formal references to published science can be deleted. They use a really moronic filter that kills anything it does not understand, even APA style citations that have a DOI part.
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@stokersruleok5863 Japan was hit with two small and reasonably clean air bursts, nothing like bursting open an operating reactor and spilling out all of the isotope by products of fission. That sort of mess would be hot as hell for a long time.
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@stokersruleok5863 The Red Zone there is huge, nobody is meant to live there, and that was not a complete failure of containment like you'd expect if you actually caused an explosion that ripped open the reactor completely and spilled the core into the open environment. If it was deep under water it would be a different issue, like with the Russian subs that sunk, but you can still end up with a stream of contamination flowing off the site, even if it is greatly diluted. If you air burst an enhanced radiation (neutron bomb) W66 over a target you would be clear to enter the location within a week. So you see it is very much a question of exactly what nuclear incident type you are describing.
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Yes that is a very real risk, depending on what "it" is. There is one other risk that is not being discussed in the video, others could be running compact fusion reactors before we see any custom fission powered sub unless we pay for what is already available to get it sooner. There are 17 seperate commercial fusion companies currently working on different approaches to the technology and billions per year are now being sunk into that technology pathway. Some of the designs proposed are very compact and do not produce a lot of radiation. The more compact the reactor the more room you have for weapons and supplies so that you can stay underwater and on the move for longer, many more months.
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