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Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida
grassy_knoll asks, "So how fragile is the electrical grid, and just what technical problems could shut down five reactors?" "Five reactors at a nuclear power plant in Florida had gone down on Tuesday and two were now back online amid a massive power outage in the southern state, CNN reported. The report on the Turkey Point nuclear plant came as four million people had lost electricity in Miami and elsewhere in Florida, with traffic signals out and major delays on roads, authorities and media said."
i'm sure the reactors shutting down had nothing to do with global warming (no strawman arguements pls). you'd be wrong thinking the environmental movement approves of nuclear though, dead wrong. if they have their way we will all be paying $10 per kilowatt for power, i'm high jacking this topic to highlight the point that THIS is exactly how we will end up if we allow it to happen.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Mod parent down.
Saying that "Nowadays one tries to break power generation up into much smaller parts" is a flat-out lie. Plants are as big as ever, and the majority of the baseline generating capacity being built today is many hundreds of megawatts for coal, and over a gigawatt per reactor for nuclear.
Why? The AC is totally, completely full of shit.
Canada's fully civilian nuclear engineering community leaks sensitive material like a CANDU calandria. "Oh that's OK, we have lots more" -- whether that's about fine-tuning for rapid 239Pu or tritiated water production or recovering from all the D2O spilled out onto the floor.
"If you can't fix it; feature it" - the final statement in such a set of web-published handwritten notes.
I suppose this is something to be proud of. It's certainly different from the way any other nuclear engineering community ("establishment", usually, and under the purview of a quasimilitary section of a department of energy) operates.
The Liberal-controlled press invented this story, even dragging out stock photos, to try to convince voters that Nuclear Power is not reliable.
Surely, we at Slashdot know beyond all doubt that Nuclear Power is reliable, fundamentally reliable, and reliable above all other forms of energy. Moreover, it is "Safe and Clean" so if you see any more stories about radiation leaks, and plutonium being flown over the US in an unsecured airplane, don't fall for it. The Left is just making up lies to discredit the one socialist program we Republican love best - single-payer-nuclear-insurance_&_ subsidy_program. Government does energy best, so anytime the government decides winners, the best technology wins out. Worked for Corn and Stalin, works for nuclear power. No other form of privately-developed-power provides as much power as the government-funded nuclear industry - so nuclear is better, and more reliable damn it.
AIK
If the "slashdot consensus" is so valuable, why are so many of you unemployed, junior-college losers?