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Nucular Hydrogen Economy

Posted by michael on from the don't-email-about-misspelling dept.

Mark Baard writes "The hydrogen economy will at least in part be based on nukes. The DOE will build a pilot high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), which theoretically can co-generate electricity and hydrogen, side by side, inside a cheap modular unit."

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  1. nucular??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    when did dubya start posting here?

    1. Re:nucular??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      i was gonna laugh till i read the village voice and saw that they misspelled it too.

    2. Re:nucular??? by ruiner13 · · Score: 2, Funny
      "It's pronounced nook-you-lar. Nook-you-lar."

      /homer simpson

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      today is spelling optional day.

    3. Re:nucular??? by Geckoman · · Score: 4, Funny
      Everyone is scared of nuclear power. Thus the need to rename it nucular.

      "Omigosh! They're building a nuclear power plant in our town!"
      "No, it's a nucular plant."
      "Oh, that's alright then. Whew!"

      Rebranding works. Right, Philip Morris?

  2. Nucular? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spell Czech?

  3. Time to cut the French some slack .... by binaryDigit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Entergy, the second-largest nuclear energy producer in the U.S., hopes to break ground on its co-generation Freedom Reactor within five years.

    OK, we can cut it out with this "Freedom" stuff everywhere now. Tell Entergy that they can go back to calling it their "French" Reactor again, the war is over.

  4. hmm by PukkaStoryTeller · · Score: 2, Funny

    i have never heard of this... nucular? does it support linux?

  5. Nucular, you know by Shouldbeworking · · Score: 1, Funny

    Rooted on the word for the center of the atom, the nuculus. Duh! Come on, folks!

  6. nuclear by t_pet422 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "nucular, it's pronounced nucular." -Homer Simpson

  7. Answer: Chalupas! by el-spectre · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the methane is cheap and easy to get as well... 99 cent menu at lunch means that you can drive home in the evening...

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    "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
    1. Re:Answer: Chalupas! by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "And the methane is cheap and easy to get as well... 99 cent menu at lunch means that you can drive home in the evening..."

      Every time my friend says "I'm going to get gas", I say "Bring me back a Chalupa?"

      It was funny 300 times, but not 301 times.

  8. Re:Nucular ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    this from a person who has a web page for recipes entitled "recipies": http://tomsdomain.com/recipes/index.htm.

  9. Re:Chernobyl fits in a basketball court building.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    only a geek would call a basketball stadium a 'basketball court building'. congrats

  10. SEP Containment by Greyfox · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you use SEP containment technology it doesn't have to last a million years. It only has to last the career of an elected official. After that, it becomes Somebody Else's Problem.

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    I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?

  11. Haha... by Benedryl+Patanol · · Score: 3, Funny
    Officials at the Idaho lab hinted at a dramatic exhibit of its pilot reactor's safety. "We could even do a demonstration in which we dump the helium coolant," said James Lake, associate laboratory director. "That would be a way to show the public in a visible way how safe the technology is."


    1. "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball."
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    "Jerk store Jerry, jerk store... Jerk store!"
  12. Re:Sounds good to me by Xerithane · · Score: 2, Funny

    Absolutely, after spending years on a nuclear submarine I know they are perfectly safe.

    Excuse me, Professor Xavier is calling me...

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    Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
  13. Re:Nucular ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And spells speech, "speach."

  14. Re:Where do you think H2 comes from? by orkysoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should be getting a 25% discount on your "methane" :-P

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    I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
  15. Re:Revival of a Program by Esion+Modnar · · Score: 2, Funny
    do you know Caffeine is more poisonous than Plutonium?

    If it's all the same to you, I'll just keep having that cup of coffee, and avoid that cup of plutonium.

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    They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
  16. Re:Temporary ? by cheekyboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    We could just ignite Juptier with a Nuke, and we could have 2 suns.

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    Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
  17. Re:OW! by Tokerat · · Score: 2, Funny


    Fog is quite scathing on an April morning.

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    CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
  18. Re:You're not likey to hear that by Eric+Ass+Raymond · · Score: 4, Funny
    They're built extremely well.

    That's what they said about the Titanic too.

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    BOO! TERRO