Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Five Key Facts About the SHIPS for America Act" video.

  1. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE - Sorry Sal but you have gotten your nuclear reactor COMPLETELY BACKWARDS. To all the reason aerospace engineers understand the nuclear options are because we'd like to build a Lunar Base. It was an aerospace engineer Kirk Sorenson who used to work for NASA and who was tasked with working out how to power a Lunar Base. From that Kirk kicked off a massive part of the nuclear discussion with his advocacy of Molten Salt reactors and Thorium fuel. I have also worked in Australia's nuclear industry on the mining side and as part of that we did an induction course that covered the full nuclear energy cycle from ore in the ground all the way through to spent fuel buried back in the ground. Also one of my workmates used to be a US Navy nuclear power plant technician/operator on aircraft carriers. FOR SHIPPING there is currently only 1 option and that is civilian versions of existing naval nuclear reactors. So for American commercial ships with nuclear power THEY WILL HAVE to use a CIVILIAN VARIANT of the GE Power reactors currently used in US Navy submarines and aircraft reactors. ALSO most of the Small Modular Reactor technology is based on Naval reactors. ALSO until the money is spent to actually develop commercially usable Molten Salt Reactors then just like with SMRs people need to stop making STUPID claims about using them. Sorry mate, I love your channel and watch it all the time but on this you are 100% WRONG. I you want I would happily do a video with you explaining these technologies.
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