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Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are designing a self-contained, tamper-resistant nuclear reactor that can be transported and installed anywhere in the world. In 'US plans portable nuclear power plants,' New Scientist writes that the sealed reactors would last 30 years and deliver between 10 and 100 megawatts. The largest version would be about 15 meters high and 3 meters wide, with a weight of about 500 tons, allowing for transportation by ships or very large trucks. The DOE thinks that this kind of nuclear reactor -- named SSTAR for 'small, sealed, transportable, autonomous reactor' -- would help to deliver nuclear energy to developing countries while significantly reducing the risk of nuclear proliferation associated with the use of nuclear power. What do you think of this idea? Is it a good one or a crazy one? Leaving a nuclear reactor in a developing country which can potentially become unstable during the 30 years of service of the reactor doesn't seem to be terribly safe.
Read more before deciding. Anyway, there will be no prototypes before 2015."
Apparently the US finally found a use for its nuclear weapons arsenal...
By 2015, we will hopefully have reduced Muslim lands to a large, lumpy pane of glass -- therefore I don't foresee any problems.
-1 shortsighted
Shortsighted? Have you not learned the lessons of history? It is more shortsighted not to realize that the sand niggers are waging global Jihad than to mearly state the truth.
-1 flamebait
The truth often is flamebait to the sheep.
-1 braindead
The blind often think that no one can really see.
-1 deprived of the lessons of history
Have you been living in a hole for the last 30 years? It is you who does not know the lessons of history.
-1 reactively unintelligent
That would be you, touting the liberal, globalist, communist, party line. Oh but, we can't attack anyone on the basis of the ethnicity! That is RACIST AND HORRIBLE. Even though that is what is being done to us. I have no idea how fuckhead sheep like you even exist, people like you are the only proof to me that darwin was wrong.