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A1Bs are not submarine reactors but I guess that's not important. If it were as simple as just taking a carrier reactor and plopping it in the middle of a corn field everyone would be doing it already. For their cost calculation that user is that user is making lots of mistakes. You cannot compare the A1Bs thermal power output and to the electrical power output of power stations while also ignoring all of the cost of all of the additional systems which have to be built into the power stations themselves to manage them. These systems also have to be built into aircraft carriers but they seem to be glossing over those costs. Its also necessary to look at lifetime costs. The peak power output of naval reactors is very high relative to their size because they need to make ships go fast sometimes. Key word sometimes. If you run a naval reactor at its listed max power output its expensive highly enriched fuel is not going to last nearly as long as its supposed to. This gives people incorrect ideas about lifetime cost since you are comparing to power stations meant to put out a lot of power near constantly. If you take into account all the costs naval reactors are not at all competitive with normal civilian nuclear reactors and that should not be surprising to anyone. Civilian nuclear engineers are not stupid. Nuclear power plants don't just neglect naval reactors for no reason.
Also, as previously mentioned, naval reactors have nuclear proliferation concern. The reason naval reactors get to go 30 years between refuels is because they use use uranium enriched to >90% rather than the 3-5% used in commercial reactors. Not only is this very expensive, it adds a long list of concerns to the already long list of concerns surrounding nuclear energy.
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