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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."
Gives new meaning to the term "Northern Lights".
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
So's fire (unless you count dragons).
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Pitr bought out Toshiba, and started up his plutonium-powered UPS device again?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Don't you see? Nukular stuff is like guns, it's EE-VILE!
Like guns, the uranium will leap out and attack people. Don't give me that "safety" crap. I don't want to be disturbed by facts...
Sony today announced it's latest line of personal entertainment products that, miraculously, don't need batteries, ever. Say hello to the new Sony NukeMan.
WARNING: RADIOLOGICAL HAZARD. DO NOT OPEN; NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. IF DEVICE BECOMES OVERLY WARM, IMMERSE IMMEDIATELY IN HEAVY WATER AND CALL THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY'S RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM. DO NOT USE WHILE PREGNANT OR NURSING AN INFANT. DOES NOT CONFER SUPER-POWERS UPON USER. KEEP AWAY FROM EASILY-MUTATED ARACHNIDS.
Available in red, purple, pink, sky blue, and glow-in-the-dark green.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
A major Japaneese corporation donates a high tech, ultraclean nuclear reactor to remote Alaskan village. The plant goes online, and everyone is happy until....
One day, all contact with the village is lost. A crack team of physicist/commandos are sent in, headed by Jean-Claude Van Damme or Vin Dielel (the Governator's too busy). What they find will SHOCK and HORRIFY the world, horribly disfigured villagers, mutant killer walruses (they came inland, they're mutants!) and a conspiracy going further than they could have imagined.
There is a reason for everything. Sometimes that reason just sucks.
So is this one of those situations where limelight = green glow?
Wouldn't they just find a way to buy a brand new core? That way they get the 90 day warranty.
Randy Virgin sounds like a villian in an Austin Powers film
I googled for "bomb neutron deflector"... should I just ignore the black helecopters that just landed outside my house?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?