Nuclear Reactors 309 - The Need For Small Portable Nuclear Power Reactors For Response To Natural Disasters - Part 2 of 2 Parts
Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
Part 1 of 2 Parts:
The big project to build two new nuclear power reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Generating Station in South Carolina was cancelled as of July 2017. In spite of this setback for nuclear power in S.C., nuclear science and technology are still important to S.C. The Savannah River Laboratory in South Carolina is a national nuclear laboratory owned by the U.S.
Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
Part 1 of 2 Parts
I recently wrote about the Soviet Union using a nuclear warhead to extinguish a fire in a natural gas well that had resisted all other attempts to put it out and had been burning for three years. While the U.S. and other nuclear nations considered the civilian use of nuclear warhead for such things as massive earthmoving projects, the Soviet Union was the most active nation in tested such uses.