What about those poor polar bears?
Posted on 06/30/2019 7:15:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Russia's civilian nuclear industry also faced public questions following the Chernobyl catastrophe, which shaped concerns about "the peaceful atom" for decades to follow. Construction of dozens of nuclear plants stopped, affecting not only massive Chernobyl-scale projects but also slowing down the use of low-power reactors like the one in what would become the floating station (The Chernobyl plant produced up to 4,000 megawatts. Lomonosov has two reactors producing 35 megawatts each).
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Sounds like a James Bond plot
As noted above, “Ice Station Zebra”!
a good read and not too different from the Bond series.
Russia should be confined to windmills...
A nice find!!
Still waiting for the mini thorium reactors from Toshiba.
Electric so cheap, no need to meter!
In 1960 Camp Century was built East of Thule. It included a nuclear reactor for power.
Thank you for the link and not just for the story of the Sturgis but for history of the Army Engineers.
And I wonder what keeps holding up scaleable Thorium Reactors? The chicoms and Indians are working on them from our research.
By golly, an electric car with unlimited mileage.
Finally.
USS Lexington, CV2, which was originally laid down as a battle-cruiser after WW1, provided power to Tacoma in December 1929.
May very well have been the event?
The old man did thirty years US Navy and was home on shore leave that 7 Dec.
No phones on the farm, so he put on his uniform and hitchhiked into Cincinnati. Found a recruiting station, they took the farm address and told him to wait there for orders.
A few days later they telegrammed him, New York City, the Yorktown. (Until the Battle of Midway).
How on earth did the Department of the Navy move so fast???
Thanks very much for the information.
This is a really bad idea
Can you expand that tidbit?
What about those poor polar bears?
This is not the RMBK design of Chernobyl. Probably more along the lines of submarine and ship power designs, but the article is more about fear mongering than tech.
If America doesn’t stomp on the thorium gas pedal, we will overnight be out of the energy business when these start coming online. It would be better if we owned the tech and licensing business, both at the private and public enterprise levels.
There is also the CANDU dirt burner reactor tech of North America. NCSU has a very small version of it on campus here in Raleigh!
You're welcome,
Ironically I happen to live on Thoria Rd. but
I'm just not sold on Thorium... yet.
The operating temperatures are just so high,
it makes me skeptical that material science has advanced sufficiently
to allow a core to be designed that can withstand the heat for
the expected life of any significant power plant.
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And I wonder what keeps holding up scaleable Thorium Reactors?
My guess, the cost of security.
Deep set with a small footprint, a good thing before 911.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S
Russia should be confined to windmills...
NB: You can never get up, if you must hold the other sob down.
Now I found this...
http://www.navyhistory.org/2014/03/going-ashore-naval-ship-to-shore-power-for-humanitarian-services/
LoL!
“It’s not 3 roentgen, it’s 15,000.”
That photo is such a farce.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_State_University_reactor_program
Very nice!
And try as I might, could not find any photos of the townies with torches and pitchforks?
A fantastic educational tool.
Maybe. Took us less than 20 years to forget 911. Chernobyl happened in 1986.
I’ll tell you, the series did highlight how bad it actually was, and how bad it could have been.
So, Fukashima. They had at least two reactors explode from steam pressure - the roof blowing right off.
How bad is all of that.
And why oh why haven’t we completely gone to LFTR technology? All of the downsides of Thorium are so, so much easier to deal with than with Uranium.
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