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Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design
core plexus writes "This article describes a proposal from a Japanese corporation that wants to thrust the Interior Alaska community of Galena into international limelight by donating a new, unconventional electricity-generating plant that would light and heat the Yukon River village pollution-free for 30 years. There's a catch, of course. It's a nuclear reactor. Not a huge, Three Mile Island-type power plant but a new generation of small nuclear reactor about the size of a big spruce tree. Designers say the technology is safe, simple and cheap enough to replace diesel-fired generators as the primary energy source for villages across rural Alaska."
I must say, after checking up on those blue-prints of Titanic, it does sound very safe too.
momg userfriendly u truly are the comedy connosir and when u pst it on other sites it makes me think your some kind of comedy pilgrim come to blow our minds!!!
The environmental problems from uranium mining are pretty bad. You need to take that (and other factors as well) into account.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
Your ignorance is blindingly obvious.
Please read the article before making a fool of yourself next time.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
We got it all wrong --- avoid TEXAS at all costs. I lived in that "place" for two years, and frankly, I don't know if you could pay me enough to melt there again. I mean, the place has an ego bigger than its borders, and the people don't seem to get the idea that Texas is not all that great.
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He ment "NOPE", because you are wrong. :-), as you are wrong.
Chernobyl, simply cought fire and burned.
You mix up the russian Chernobyl reactor wih the american Thre miles Island reactor.
The later had a core melt down, but did not "spill molten fuel" all around.
There is no dispute about the fact, as it is no fact. And no dispute about you being wrong
angel'o'sphere
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
If we compare Three Mile Island reactor #2 with a Ringling Bros. big top circus, it suddenly becomes much safer by association. And Chernobyl #4 is about the same size as a Carmelite convent. That makes it safe, secure, and peaceful.
I think Joel Gay and the Anchorage Daily need a bit of what used to be called "journalistic integrity"
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Problem is that the vast majority of the anti-nuclear people are immune to reason and prefer to ignore facts that undermine their position. Rather than arguing with highly vocal fanatics, it's much easier to slip something under their radar by changing its name.
You know it's coming. I knew it a long time already, as an unevitabile consequence of war technology development. And guess what, the first to develop it will be the USA. Love or hate it, USA has the means and the cojones to get into this sort of project.
Sigged!
The Titanic was unsinkable.
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