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US Plans "Disposable" Nuclear Batteries
holy_calamity writes "A US government program is in the works to design small nuclear reactors for use by developing countries. The work continues despite fears about security and nuclear proliferation. Plans include having reactors supplied with fuel by the US and other trusted nations, or to build reactors with their whole lifetime of fuel packaged securely inside — like a giant non-user replaceable radioactive battery.' '"
Finally, we can get rid of those cranks in the XO....
And yet, you continue to waste by using a computer to connect to slashdot. Hardly a necessary expenditure of resources. Wouldn't it have been better to use that energy to desalinate water in the third world?
Lights? Ha, if you want to really conserve, why aren't you going to bed with the sun? Heat? What makes you so special that you can't just take the temperature as nature dishes it out? There is no question that your ecological foot print is enormous compared to the majority of the world's. Not to mention how few resources you really need to keep yourself alive.
You're a hypocrite. So long as I can still hear you bitching about conserving, you aren't living up to your own standards. The baby steps you have taken mean nothing, if you truly believe that conservation is the solution then you have no choice but to go out and live a 'natural' existence.
You have a pretty poor standing to tell the rest of us how to live if you haven't taken every conceivable step for yourself.