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MINI NUCLEAR REACTORS OFFER PROMISE OF CHEAPER, CLEAN POWER
WSJ ^ | 11 Feb 2021 | DANIEL MICHAELS

Posted on 02/11/2021 2:19:08 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT

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My back yard is available.

Such a deal!

1 posted on 02/11/2021 2:19:08 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Also available here:
https://archive.vn/xocQe#selection-363.6-371.15


2 posted on 02/11/2021 2:20:15 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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It’s smart. Honestly, if we wanted to lower air pollution, the best thing we could do is mini-reactors in marine shipping. Cargo ship pollution is WAY bigger than all automotive pollution put together, but no one wants to talk about that.


3 posted on 02/11/2021 2:23:28 PM PST by ksm1
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The public has been too brainwashed to accept anything with ‘nuclear’ in the name. The peasants will freeze in their huts while Bill Gates has his own reactor.


4 posted on 02/11/2021 2:24:19 PM PST by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Faster, please.


5 posted on 02/11/2021 2:24:48 PM PST by SSS Two
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Fusion energy is only thirty years away.


6 posted on 02/11/2021 2:27:44 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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Anything that allows any form of "energy independence" for citizens of the USA ist verboten.
7 posted on 02/11/2021 2:28:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The Technology for Smmall reactors maybe available.But the leftwing anti nucleaar idiots would be against them from day one.

A battalion of Security troops would have to be stationed there to protect them.

I’m all for it.Though I don’t see Joe Biden,The imposter in Chief pushing for those small nuclear reactors even though they’d be much more productive then windmills or solar panels.


8 posted on 02/11/2021 2:30:20 PM PST by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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We should have started this 50 years ago. If we can fit a reactor into a sub or an aircraft carrier, we can have them for power production in general use.


9 posted on 02/11/2021 2:30:48 PM PST by lurk ( )
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You can put ‘em close to the point where energy is consumed rather than having to pipe the power in via transmission lines.


10 posted on 02/11/2021 2:32:13 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan. )
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A little to big to install in the 100 x 300 foot power plant that my little town is closing down, but the right size to go on the outskirts of town. It would have been nice if the 2d article you linked to had provided the size on the ground needed for it.


11 posted on 02/11/2021 2:32:26 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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The public has been too brainwashed to accept anything with ‘nuclear’ in the name

Gee, I wonder why?

Cant wait until 50,000 unprotected little nuke reactor start glowing the suburbs.

12 posted on 02/11/2021 2:36:54 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (Sarcasm. It's my only natural defense against stupidity!)
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This pitch has been round for decades; sounds great until the karens, the condo associations, the busybodies, the environmentalists put the kabash on it once again - better to suffer in the dark than glow in the dark they say.


13 posted on 02/11/2021 2:38:29 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Can’t wait until Antifa begins to play with unprotected little nuke reactors ...


14 posted on 02/11/2021 2:39:54 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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That isn't what brainwashed the public.

This is:



15 posted on 02/11/2021 2:40:23 PM PST by Bratch
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Serfs didn’t own the firewood they chopped to keep from freezing to death in ancient and medieval times. If we are to return to kind of a Super Feudalism, under the Trillionaire Aristocracy, then we will own no reactors, either.


16 posted on 02/11/2021 2:45:09 PM PST by Richard Axtell (President Asterisk is an ass to risk the economy and rights of all Americans.)
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Exactly - it was the movie that shut down the industry. The accident at Three-Mile Island was a minor event due to the safety protocols in place. The movie and the event occurred at about the same time, I don’t recall which was first.


17 posted on 02/11/2021 2:45:32 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: Born to Conserve

Fusion energy was “thirty years away” 50 years ago.


18 posted on 02/11/2021 2:45:39 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: Born to Conserve

“Fusion is only 30 years away”.

~Abraham Lincoln


19 posted on 02/11/2021 2:47:51 PM PST by ETCM
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Piss on nuclear power ....GAS heating water in order to spin a turbine / generator is the way. Since I really looked into the dilemma of dealing with spent fuel rods I have been against this electricity generation system. It doesn’t get much easier than boiling water to make steam than with a gas / natural gas flame and a boiler.....K.I.S.S. rule .....I have always been amazed at how much natural gas is burned off while drilling...I do welcome any Freepers to quell my angst about spent fuel rods and the radioactivity life they have?


20 posted on 02/11/2021 2:50:13 PM PST by mythenjoseph
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