Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design 965
core plexus writes "This article describes a proposal from a Japanese corporation that wants to thrust the Interior Alaska community of Galena into international limelight by donating a new, unconventional electricity-generating plant that would light and heat the Yukon River village pollution-free for 30 years. There's a catch, of course. It's a nuclear reactor. Not a huge, Three Mile Island-type power plant but a new generation of small nuclear reactor about the size of a big spruce tree. Designers say the technology is safe, simple and cheap enough to replace diesel-fired generators as the primary energy source for villages across rural Alaska."
Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design (Score:2, Funny)
New term (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Technology good. (Score:4, Funny)
Whaaaa.....? (Score:4, Funny)
Randy Virgin? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:nuclear power is cleaner.... (Score:3, Funny)
Like guns, the uranium will leap out and attack people. Don't give me that "safety" crap. I don't want to be disturbed by facts...
Yeah, I'm sure it's safe... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Desi (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Whaaaa.....? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well, this is a good place to start (Score:5, Funny)
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Schwab
Re:waste? (Score:5, Funny)
A major Japaneese corporation donates a high tech, ultraclean nuclear reactor to remote Alaskan village. The plant goes online, and everyone is happy until....
One day, all contact with the village is lost. A crack team of physicist/commandos are sent in, headed by Jean-Claude Van Damme or Vin Dielel (the Governator's too busy). What they find will SHOCK and HORRIFY the world, horribly disfigured villagers, mutant killer walruses (they came inland, they're mutants!) and a conspiracy going further than they could have imagined.
Re:Pretty clever Toshiba! (Score:1, Funny)
It didn't work out too well for the Japanese.
radioactive (Score:4, Funny)
So is this one of those situations where limelight = green glow?
Re:nuclear power is cleaner.... (Score:3, Funny)
Austin Powers' nemesis? (Score:5, Funny)
Um... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:waste? (Score:1, Funny)
it is a pet, which is basically a waste of resources.
Why do we continue to let you have food? After all, you are just a waste of resources too. We should instead transfer those resources to someone who actually contributes to society.
Jerk!
It has not (Score:1, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, small nuclear reactors build YOU.
Could they make it even smaller? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Well, this is a good place to start (Score:2, Funny)
someone should send them a couple of athlons for xmas.
You know..... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh wait, wait........imagine a beowulf cluster....oh fuck it.
TERRORISTS! (Score:1, Funny)
Think about the children! What will happen if we don't stop these evil-doers now!
sincerely,
Darl McBride
Re:nuclear power is cleaner.... (Score:2, Funny)
Sound advice, regardless of the environment.
Re:Technology good. (Score:2, Funny)
> Too many luddites are trying to reverse the tide of
> technology.
Nope, just trying to reverse the tide of foolish and careless use of technology. Technology is only good when mixed with large doses of wisdom.
> Nuclear technology is a triumph of physics--it's
> something no other animal has mastered.
We haven't mastered the fire of the atom. Like the fire from heaven, we stole it, and can barely control it. Like the fire from heaven that destroys homes and rampages through forests and entire towns, the fire from the atom has run wild: Bravo, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Tokai, among others. Our stupidity, carelessness, greed, and pride have cost lives.
The only animal that ever mastered this fire is the child of H-bomb Bravo: Godzilla, the Dreaded God of the Atom and of Destruction. Play with his fire, and he will burn you.
After the big blackout, there were a number of articles on various new, safe, technologies that could be used to power individual buildings instead of relying on a grid. Perhaps one or more of those technologies would do the job without the risks associated with a reactor.
"Our people.. stricken with disease.
You.. you played with the fires of the gods.
And you dare to come here and ask us for help!
You betrayed us! You expect us to trust you after what you have done?"
Infant Island Chief, "Godzilla vs. Mothra" (US Version), 1964
Re:nuclear power is cleaner.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well, this is a good place to start (Score:3, Funny)
That would be sweet! As Dying-of-Cancer Man, you could fight crime using the awesome power of your inspiring tale of courage!
DoCM: "Stop, villain! *pant* Your nefarious schemes are over! *hack cough* Oh, there goes the last of my hair..."
Villain: "Your body wracked with cancer and the effects of chemotherapy, I'm surprised you can stand, much less threaten me."
DoCM: "I just want to leave the world... a better place than I found it..."
Henchman: "You can't hurt him, boss... He's dying of cancer!"
Villain: "You're right! Such courage and love of life... We surrender, Dying-of-Cancer Man!"
Re:Well, this is a good place to start (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who's calling who an idiot? (Score:3, Funny)
In a Related Story... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I want one in MY backyard (Score:2, Funny)
Impossible! (Score:3, Funny)
Except, of course, for the public to rationally consider anything at all with "nuclear" in its name. That is really impossible.
What is it with people and "nuclear"? This reactor is suggested by the Japanese of all people. They were nuked. Twice. If anyone should automatically shut down his brain and cringe at the sound "nuclear", it should be them. Yet they seem to be thinking rationally about it. In the meanwhile, it is the Americans who nuked them who black out when hearing the word. What is this, some sort of guilt trip?
Wait, I got it. These Japanese are also scared of nuclear power. But they hell-bent on revenge! They'll install these miniature nuclear plants all over the USA, and at a predetermined time will cause them all to explode, killing everyone in the continent! Notice they don't suggest it be used in Japan? Launch a pre-emptive strike now!