Proposed deployment of nuclear reactors for Singapore

REACH Portal - Nuclear Reactors deployment

21 May 2026

After careful study and exhaustive scouring through various AI information on nuclear reactor, SMR, fission, fusion, and if they are hit by bombs - the danger of radiation, I feel that the following infrastructure deployment for either SMR nuclear reactor - fission or fusion will be the safest for Singapore - being a small city state with little margin of errors as safety is paramount for Singaporeans and residents.

SMR nuclear reactors should be deployed in:-

1. Offshore islands preferable to meet the emergency radius of 1.6 km safety distance for SMR nuclear fission reactors (be it gas-cool, thorium-molten salt or uranium pellets).

2. Underground - organized in a honeycomb design - modularized, isolated - per comb, per nuclear reactor. Pse see diagram for reference.

So that if there is radioactive leakage - it is confined to that particular comb.

3. The offshore islands provide a buffer safety distance of 1.6 km - and in the event of leakage, the buffer distance will help in reaction time.

4. As gas-cool are using kernel plus multi-layer cladding to ensure nuclear fission to occur within protected kernel while allowing heat to generate electricity - leakage of radiation will be prevented.

Hence accident or leakages are very rare - in which deploying gas cool nuclear reactors underground will be safe due to the multi layer cladding protection from leakage or normal accident.

The need to rely on seawater as coolants and dilution - will rarely be needed - and hence need not be located on surface areas near the sea.

5. As modular honeycomb design per reactor are used, any leakage in one reactor will not affect the rest.

Also in underground, leakages will not harm population through radiation by air or sea.

6. However if offshore islands are not feasible - eg. Not sufficient underground space, underground soil too soft and not feasible for underground structure to house the nuclear reactors to be arranged in the honeycomb design - then alternative choice is to deploy in mainland underground or underneath Jurong island that have a larger surface area and harder underground soil.

7. I feel that offshore + underground deployment for nuclear reactors will allay the safety considerations concerning radiation leakage, terrorism or missiles attack in the event of war.