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Robert X Cringely Predicts More Mininuke Plants

Posted by timothy on from the make-them-bouncy-and-floaty dept.

LandGator writes "PC pundit Robert X Cringely had a life before writing 'Triumph of the Nerds' for PBS: He covered the atomics industry and reported on Three Mile Island. In this blog post, he analyzes the Fukushima reactor failures, and suggests the end result will be a rapid growth in small, sealed 'package' nuclear reactors such as the Toshiba 4S generator considered for Galena, Alaska. He thinks Japan may have little choice, and with rolling blackouts scheduled, he may be right."

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  1. Re:I'd be open to it, but good luck with everyone by rmstar · · Score: 1, Troll

    Pebble bed reactors aren't safe either. The germans built one for research and it caused them quite a bit of trouble. The Juelich reactor it was. Pebbles get stuck and break, because granular media have odd ways. And the mess to clean up at the end is as incredible as with other tech.

    Nuke is just too unsafe.