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China Goes Nuclear
Rei writes "Wired reports that the People's Republic of China has announced plans to build 30 new nuclear reactors by the year 2020, and by 2050 have almost as much nuclear power as the entire world produces today. The reactors are to be pebble bed reactors, in which helium replaces radioactive, pressurized water. A Chinese research institution demonstrated the safety of their test reactor against meltdown by shutting off the coolant."
Isn't that what they call running a reactor without coolant until meltdown in China?
A Chinese research institution demonstrated the safety of their test reactor against meltdown by shutting off the coolant. ...thus creating in an explosive instant the second thing in China you can see from space. ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
One word: Godzilla.
And we all know that rockets never blow up or otherwise fail on launch.
That is why we have Superman to fly the waste up and out of our atomosphere and fling them at the sun.
...China syndrome. At least this way, the sizzling ball of radioactivity won't have to burn all the way through the earth's core to get there.
And then he popped the spent waste from the core into his mouth, rubbing his tummy while patting his head. Clever Chinese, their nuclear reactors run on bubblegum! And so many volunteers to store the old bubblegum in their glorious patriotic towns. Meanwhile, in Oilmerica, Monkeyking Dubya has announced even niftier newkular reactors, that will send us to Mars, to convert their heathens!
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It's `nucular' not `nuclear'...
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Jeez, have we learned nothing from Sim City 3000? By the time they finish this thing, the rest of us will have fusion power.
i bet the local walmart will take on a subtle, eerie glow at night.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
1/67 people develop skin cancer. Stil think the sun is so safe. And, i couldn't help but notice our friend 'the wind' taking otu a big chunk of florida the other day AND coming back for more. Geothermal? sure if you don't want your lava tv exploding! Hydro? do you know how many people a year drown?
don't worry, there is an answer. we can rocket all our water into the sun and, with a bit of luck, put that thing out (okay... we might need a bit more water... but it can't be that much more). no sun would mean a constant earth tempreature which would mean no wind. we could power everything with nuclear power and live happy knowing our children won't blow away.
The Neo-Bohemian Techno-Socialist
turn something sitting on your desk upside down,
it says: 32 ounce.
aw crap.
It depends. If the fallout grows second sets of arms on everyone, cleanup will take half as many people!
I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!
Hey, hey.
Nevada has had hundreds of nuclear reactors in its history. Of course, they were all of the prompt critical variety, and only ran for a few microseconds, but that still probably adds up to more nuclear reactors than the rest of the country put together!
"...Realisticly this means there is no gurantee we can successfully pass the information on about where we have buried the stuff for the required length of time...."
:)
Hell, in America screwing future generations of humans is a primary operating principle...and we like it that way
Where do you think the fuel for nuclear reactors come from? Could it be the ground?
This looks like a job for goatse.cx!
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
And you go to Stanford?
The title of this article should have been, "China Goes Nuclearer".
No comment.
It's a disaster waiting to happen! I've got you there, admit it.
"Hey! It's all ball bearings nowadays. Now you prepare that Fetzer valve with some 3-in-1 oil and some gauze pads, and I'm gonna need 'bout ten quarts of anti-freeze, preferably Prestone. No, no make that Quaker State."
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
The Flinstones really were ahead of their time.
The reactors are to be pebble bed reactors
Stoneage technology rocks.
Carbon based humanoid in training.
This Canadian suggests Redmond.
So when a Chinese reactor melts down, do they call it America Syndrome?
In Soviet Russia, spies in China give nuclear secrets to YOU!
Sorry. Burn, karma, burn...
I imagine you'd have to blow it up pretty hard to do that. Nuking it would work, but, ahhh, redundant I'd say.
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
Im not sure about you guys, but if I were to buy a nuclear waste storage bin, I wouldn't buy one that says "made in china" on a little gold sticker on the bottom !
*Yes, its a joke!*
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