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The Navy uses highly enriched uranium for its reactors, something like 70-80% enrichment. This is a non starter for civilian use, on account of proliferation concerns. That, and the enrichment requirements drive up fuel costs.
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Naval reactors use HEU specifically so that humans can live and work in close proximity for long periods of time.

Land-based deployments don't have this constraint.

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>the entire US Navy uses them

Is the business of the US Navy to sell electrity on the market?

You are the one conflating things that have absolutely no connections.

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Yes, SMRs probably have a small niche market on military-adjacent applications.
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Ok, this is interesting. I am skeptic about DC's in space, but I do appreciate people actually doing stuff. What is it computing up there. How did you get it up? How does one usually talk with their satellite. I guess you don't merely have a dish since it's probably not geostationary.
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