[ale] [OT] Load Control Switch

[Watson, Keith]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Kinney
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 17:38
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Load Control Switch
> 
> 
> Yeah. Nuke powers famous promise. Too bad no one listened to the engineers
> on that one. We really need a crap-fuel recycling plant that can "burn"
> all the radioactive "sludge" from the older reactors. Plus a total
> redesign to not require active emergency cooling. Maybe pumps to keep the
> emergency cooling from automatically flooding the reactor and shutting it
> down during use? Heat powered hydraulic rods that automatically insert
> above a given temp and must be manually removed? And that process kills
> the pumps holding back the cooling flood.
> 
> Seems simple.
> 
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III
> I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.
> 
> 

Why not use a thorium reactor?

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor#Thorium_cycle_advantages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium_fuel_cycle

Who this is really getting OT,
keith


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