<div dir="auto">I saw Rick and Morty the other night.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Finally, there's a cartoon character I can use as a role model. Thank you Rick!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 9, 2017 7:37 PM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What's good on TV?<br>
<br>
NOVA, Frontline<br>
For example, here's a NOVA episode called "The Nuclear Option"<br>
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/video/2365930275/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/video/<wbr>2365930275/</a><br>
<br>
It is about thorium molten salt nuclear reactors that burn current<br>
nuclear waste to much smaller amounts (about 10% of the total) and leave<br>
waste with just a 69 yr half-life, not thousands of years.<br>
<br>
There's a cool youtube video showing a meltdown for a Molten Salt<br>
Reactor in Utah in the 1950s. They had visitors during the test, but<br>
when none of the guys working the meltdown test started running, so the<br>
visitors figured it must be safe enough. The reactor temperatures rose<br>
higher and higher after all reaction controls were removed ... then the<br>
reactions started slowing until they stopped - with zero positive<br>
controls needed. No power. No pumps. No explosion. Do nothing, you end<br>
with a fizzle, not a boom.<br>
<br>
There are multiple "new energy" companies performing designs of this<br>
type. Nothing full scale in the USA. I've seen a few proposals for<br>
20-30 yr modular reactors. At the end of their life, take the entire<br>
reactor out for processing and swap in a new one.<br>
<br>
China is building full-scale versions of these plants now. They are<br>
willing to take big chances to solve their power issues. Google for<br>
videos on "molten salt Nuclear Reactors china" to find more.<br>
<br>
NatGeo did a 2 hr episode about these reactors too.<br>
<br>
I'm pretty excited about a "green nuclear option" for clean power that<br>
works at night, without wind, and can produce power for 50-200K homes,<br>
without the risk of an explosive meltdown due to electrical or pump<br>
failures.<br>
<br>
It is the next best thing until I can have a nuclear reactor under my<br>
sink next to the garbage disposal. Hope they get solid, safe, designs<br>
approved and built in the USA, so we can start eating away at all the<br>
partially spent nuclear fuel being stored around current nuke plants.<br>
<br>
Plus these are entertaining:<br>
* Rick and Morty<br>
* Squidbillies<br>
<br>
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On 04/09/2017 05:20 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> There's stuff on TV worth watching?<br>
><br>
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