{"id":188910,"date":"2010-07-11T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/11\/i-cannot-see-this-not-ending-up-in-submarines\/"},"modified":"2010-07-11T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T12:17:00","slug":"i-cannot-see-this-not-ending-up-in-submarines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/11\/i-cannot-see-this-not-ending-up-in-submarines\/","title":{"rendered":"I Cannot See this Not Ending Up in Submarines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Pix from Hyperion Power Generation<\/a>‘s web site<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Hyperion Power Generation is claiming that it can mass produce a 25 megawatt reactor in the volume of a refrigerator<\/a>, 1.5m in diameter, and 2.5 m high.<\/p>\n

As you can see from the picture, this is just the reactor, and the full installation is a lot<\/span> larger than a refrigerator, but if you are dumping your heat into an infinite 20\u00b0C liquid, the ocean, and you eliminate the super-heating setup, since space is at more of a premium than efficiency, and I can see putting in something north of 15MW in a with a 10 foot stretch.<\/p>\n

Hyperion is hawking their technology for military applications as well<\/a>, albeit for remote bases, not warships.<\/p>\n

I would note that their design, which uses convection cooling with a lead-bismuth coolant<\/a> (the heat carrying capacity of the molten metal explains the small size) sound to me like it would be rather quiet too.<\/p>\n

By way of comparison, a stretched Kilo would displace about 4,500 tons submerged, as compared to a Seawolf, which displaces around 9,100 tons and has a s power plant that puts out something north of 45MW<\/a>, and the Kilo’s Wiki page<\/a> has it exceeding 20 kts with less than 5MW on batteries.<\/p>\n

It would probably keep the aircraft carrier battle group a few hundred miles further off a country’s shoreline during a time of heightened tensions.<\/p>\n

That is assuming, of course, that their numbers are not too good to be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click for full size Pix from Hyperion Power Generation‘s web site Hyperion Power Generation is claiming that it can mass produce a 25 megawatt reactor in the volume of a refrigerator, 1.5m in diameter, and 2.5 m high. As you can see from the picture, this is just the reactor, and the full installation is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135,1161,1163,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-naval","category-nuclear-power","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}