[HN Gopher] Cutaway drawings of nuclear reactors around the world
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       Cutaway drawings of nuclear reactors around the world
        
       Author : scrlk
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-08-11 21:41 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (econtent.unm.edu)
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | I guess
       | https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/collection/nuceng/id/36/rec...
       | (which, unlike the others in this collection, is not stationary)
       | was a predecessor to today's "50 Years of Victory" icebreaker?
        
         | acidburnNSA wrote:
         | Indeed. This was the first nuclear powered icebreaker. Admiral
         | Rickover toured it at one point.
        
         | themaninthedark wrote:
         | https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/collection/nuceng/id/30/rec...
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         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
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         | NS Savannah is not stationary either.
        
       | cynicalpeace wrote:
       | As much as we like to make fun of the French- they are the
       | world's visionary for solving energy production. Which in turn,
       | is the world's best chance to sustain humankind.
        
         | qball wrote:
         | The French were the only Western European country to realize
         | that the US did not have their best interests in mind when it
         | comes to energy security in Europe.
         | 
         | History has done nothing but show that pursuing nuclear as a
         | vital national resource was the right call.
        
       | callumprentice wrote:
       | My dad was a draughtsman and worked on the piping layouts for
       | some of these reactors. We used to spend hours talking about them
       | and he would often sketch out portions of the design from memory.
       | He passed away on my 50th birthday (quite some time ago) and
       | seeing these brought back such a flood of wonderful memories.
       | 
       | Thank you OP.
        
         | coffeemug wrote:
         | Tell us more stories about that. Whatever leaps to mind.
        
           | callumprentice wrote:
           | He would get so excited by the challenge of fitting the miles
           | and miles of pipes efficiently into a small 3D space and it
           | was of course long before the advent of computers so he had
           | to figure it out in his head. I remember having an Atari 400
           | and trying to come up with a "solution" for him, having no
           | idea what I was doing of course.
           | 
           | He once explained that by using lots of concrete and steel,
           | the reactor was built to withstand a jumbo jet crashing into
           | it and my young brain couldn't fathom why that might ever be
           | a thing.
           | 
           | He was a phenomenal artist - the kind neighbors from afar
           | would often come to for help with anything artistic - so his
           | quick sketches of say, part of them steam pipe layout looked
           | like they were done in Autocad 20-30 years early. I wish I
           | still had some.
           | 
           | Good memories - thanks for suggesting..
        
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