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Remember reading that, it was in pre-2008 dollars.


So it be over 200 dollars in 2023, From a low end of 198 in 2008 all the way up nearly 300 if you drop all the way back to 1992.



Me I mainly waiting to see if the Helion Fusion reactor works anywhere near as advertised, which for me be making 2.5 times more then you put in. They say it be roughly 500 megawatts, but even if it only outputs like 100 megawatts if be enough for the navy to look at that HARD. Cause the Safety factors for Fusion are Far FAR FAR loser then Fission. IF it eats a missile you will not be able to measure the amount of radiation basically compare to the outside and you cant melt down at all.  Break yes, but you can train that unlike fission deals and again at worse is low beta radiation, which standard Damncon gear for DDGs be rated to stop it without it getting activated.

And you can automaticed to the point of Turbines if you wanted, which Helion is doing. Thrown in that the Big 500 megawatt assembly is smaller then a standard LM2500 turbogenset? Be a damn near drop in replacement. Only issue being needing to throw in a set of electric motors to turn the props, which be a bigger design issue for refitting the Burkes imo. The Ships with Intergrited Electric Propulsion like the Type 45 or the Zumwalts be a near plug and play deal.


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