Yes, I’m aware. It’s a sector pretty famously pioneered by the British, and Lloyd’s of London still operates.

There’s plenty of insurers not in America…

A nuclear reactor isn’t actually a very complicated machine, in a sense. Put enough nuclear fuel in one place and it gets hot. Then, drive a heat engine with it. Usually one based on steam, although closed-cycle gas turbines, sterling engines and airbreathing jet engines have all been experimented with.

It’s just that you have to keep track of neutron moderation and cross sections, half lives of thousands of isotopes, thermal changes, non-constant demand and the possibility of point failures, all under the condition that you can’t let anything escape. That makes it complicated, but then again each individual part on that list can be learned from open-source materials.

It’s even known what general kinds of reactors are on various military nuclear submarines. For example, the earlier Soviet designs used a liquid lead-bismuth cooled fast neutron design, which is why the Russians have so much polonium, while the modern designs use a pressurised water coolant.

I agree, it’s a fairly productive social science, but is there actual evidence that psychology has made an impact in organisation and management?

There’s plenty of anecdotes and some hard numbers that suggest management is replete with bullshit artistry. For example, most office managers rely on in-seat time as their only measure of productivity.

Mmm, I find it really handy to know that my memories are generated rather than recalled. Sometimes, I remember something that didn’t happen, and I know not to be weird and insistent about it. That hiding things from yourself is a really effective way to manage temptation is also not what I would have expected.

I’d actually say that by social science standards psychology has an above average number of applications.

There’s at least as many parts in a modern reactor as in a dishwasher, but leaving that aside the modular building thing also failed to take off the n times it’s been tried, and for similar reasons. I fully believe there’s a speedup if you do the same project multiple times, although you’d find it would plateau after a while. There’s also a speedup associated with building something large and in place.

The big savings happen when you reach a production run where you can build or configure specialised tooling and run it until after it’s earned itself back.

To be clear, the exact designs on military craft are secret for security reasons, but not the theory and general technology. Commercial nuclear boats have long existed, they’re just niche for all the cost, safety and complexity reasons you’d expect.

I’ve heard it suggested that the mass production efficiencies wouldn’t kick in until they’re building hundreds or thousands. That’s pretty typical for manufacturing, and it’s not like we’ve never built a reactor before.

You could dislike both.

I honestly don’t notice as long as the conversation continues.

Hmm. The warfare-related ones are pretty spot on. Wet powder sucks, if you’re not careful your musket can go off half-cocked and ironclads were well armoured. Ditto for taking no prisoners, although we tend to frown on that now.

My guess would be the more practical it would have been at some point, the less likely it started as a misconception.

Poop-de-loop.

The entire field isn’t therapy.

“Must be at least this rich to ride”

Well, you can feel that way I guess, but good luck getting anybody to care.

It would piss off the other G7 members too much.

Israel does not need us for anything.

Which is also why they might be snake oil. Similar problems to a full-size modern reactor, but without the savings of scale and not having to ship modules around.

Cool, we’ll finally get to find out if it’s actually even more complicated and expensive than the traditional kind.

Okay, so you are serious.

Dude, it’s a meme quote. OP is statistically very likely an atheist, since this is Lemmy.

I guess there’s a parallel if you deliberately signed up for a job enshittifying things, although the difference of degree is obviously large. And OP was being really weird and aggro about it.

(Camp guard was a cush assignment relative to the front, you had to work for it)

Hmm.

“And there you go. As always, posting the wrong information gets you the real stuff (which, to be clear, is Ward Cunningham’s law)”