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Originally Posted by VRM
Well, good - something we can agree on! My uncle explained some of this to me when I was a kid (he was a nuke officer on sub), and I've always found it interesting. I've always been in favour of nuke energy plants as well, and I grew up living about 12 miles away from one of them. The only side effect that I am aware of is a third arm and the ability to breathe underwater. 
I've never seen pics of the laser scaled with anything else - can you post?
Steve |
I would have to look for it... I saw it on a TV science program.
Now Ron, what has Cold Fusion got to do with this, or are you like me, suffering from a cold and dipping into the cold medicine?
And yes, it is true that 3 Mile suffered the damage for the reasons you described. Today, the design that is being proposed in future installations is sort of a "pre-fab" deal. It is assembled and delivered completed. Since it is a standard, closed, carefully controlled-in-a-factory-built machine, it is also "pre-signed-off" on. How do I know this? I have a friend who works in a nuclear plant in Chattanooga. Also, they have a place to store them... Yucca Mountain. And as the French have showed (yeah, I know, FTF), these can be recycled and reprocessed back into useable rods thus increasing their lifetime indefinitely. So storage is less of a concern. Somewhere I read that the French (who have the highest number of Nuke plants) can store all of their current waste in a home garage (lead lined, under 100 feet of concrete, of course)
Mike