China to Pioneer Melt-Down Proof Reactors

pease1 writes "FT.com reports China is poised to develop the world's first commercially operated "pebble bed" nuclear reactor. If successfully commercialized, the pebble bed reactor would be the first radically new reactor design for several decades. It would push China to the forefront of development of a technology that researchers claim offers a new "meltdown-proof" alternative to standard water-cooled nuclear power stations." This was mentioned in September of last year but now looks as though the plan is moving forward.

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Re:Safe Nuclear Power

[cliffski]

plus even if you have a *safe* place to put it, you need to trasnport this stuff and store it, for thousands of years. To safeguard this stuff you have to be lucky every day for maybe ten thousand years. Al Queada need to get lukcy once with a group of guys with RPGs stopping a waste train. Your next headline is a dirty bomb that irradiates manhatten, goodbye american economy.
Is it REALLY worth this much risk just for you people to stop driving goddammed SUVS?