China Goes Nuclear

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Posted by michael on Thursday September 2, 2004 @09:15AM from the power-to-the-people dept.

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."

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USA syndrome? by MrMr · 2004-09-02 09:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Isn't that what they call running a reactor without coolant until meltdown in China?
Space by daeley · 2004-09-02 09:21 · Score: 4, Funny

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. ;)

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Re:Nuclear energy works! by filth+grinder · 2004-09-02 09:22 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
2050? by FlipmodePlaya · 2004-09-02 09:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Jeez, have we learned nothing from Sim City 3000? By the time they finish this thing, the rest of us will have fusion power.
prediction by flacco · 2004-09-02 09:31 · Score: 4, Funny

i bet the local walmart will take on a subtle, eerie glow at night.

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Re:Seems much more of a threat to the US than Iraq by glsunder · 2004-09-02 09:48 · Score: 4, Funny

turn something sitting on your desk upside down,

it says: 32 ounce.

aw crap.
Re:Nuclear energy works! by Proc6 · 2004-09-02 10:11 · Score: 5, Funny

It depends. If the fallout grows second sets of arms on everyone, cleanup will take half as many people!

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Re:Nuclear energy works! by yiantsbro · 2004-09-02 11:49 · Score: 5, Funny

"...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 :)
Re:Nuclear energy works! by Mikkeles · 2004-09-02 12:05 · Score: 4, Funny

'One of the study issues for Yucca Mountain is how do you mark deadly waste so that someone ten thousand years from now will deduce that is lethal and leave it alone.'

This looks like a job for goatse.cx!

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