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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Nuclear Companies Hope Small Is Beautiful

Nuclear Companies Hope Small Is Beautiful

You can design a reactor in a hundred ways. It is like the French cheese dilemma; because there are some 500 cheeses in France, who is to say which are the best?In the world of cheese, the decision has been made by those who have most successfully brought their cheeses to market; hence the domination by Brie, Camembert, and Roquefort.So it has been with nuclear reactors.The man who made the market decisions was the late Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, the crusty father of the nuclear navy. An autocratic visionary, Rickover feared that if too many reactor…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Nuclear-Companies-Hope-Small-Is-Beautiful.html

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