Axil Axil wrote:
System modularity is a very old and accepted way to configure a system. Power reactors must be highly reliable and modularity is how you do it.
On the other hand, you do not remove and replace one fire tube or one fission reactor rod at a time, without turning off the whole machine! You do not swap out the landing gear or a turbine blade in a airplane in flight, although as someone remarked, that is more-or-less what they try to do in nuclear power plants, because it is so expensive to turn them off.
- Jed
