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2024-11-12 Cyber

Inside the secret plan to re-open America's most infamous nuclear power plant code named Tetris

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10329 views ] Top

#1 More people died in a Oldsmobile driven by Senator Ted Kennedy than at Three Mile Island.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-11-12 07:26|| 2024-11-12 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 There was a movement towards the idea of building small distributed nuclear power plants until the environmentalists put the kibosh on anything nuclear. Back in the 1980s around the time of Three-Mile occurred and later Chernobyl there was a breeder-reactor design project at Oak Ridge. After the nuclear accidents, Congress pulled the funding and the project came to a full stop. Sodium was to be the coolant. Small, distributed nuclear plants that gracefully degrade or shut down is not a bad safety concept. Unfortunately, nuclear power is not an easy sell to people today. Wind and solar are not the answers to our power problems. EVs are not the answer either.

Posted by JohnQC 2024-11-12 10:59|| 2024-11-12 10:59|| Front Page Top

#3 The Swedes and French have long operated nuclear plants. They go for medium size with standardized design. The problem in America is that they sell yuge plants of unique designs that take up time and money (beyond the usual graft).

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-11-12 12:07|| 2024-11-12 12:07|| Front Page Top

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