The essentials
TOPIC
The diesel comparison
At a remote site, delivered diesel can cost many times the wholesale price. That is the bar a microreactor has to clear, and it is a low bar.
TOPIC
Years without refuelling
Long-life cores remove the resupply convoy entirely. For defense logistics that is the entire value proposition.
TOPIC
Transportability
Factory-fuelled, sealed, shipped, operated, and returned. That model needs a regulatory framework that mostly does not exist yet.
YEARS
Core life
CONTAINER
Transport
DIESEL
The competitor
SEALED
Fuel handling
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