Posted on 10/11/2022 4:06:15 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
New solution provides safer nuclear power Nuclear reactors in the U.S. usually fall under the category of Light-Water Reactor. These split uranium atoms to create energy, with leftover materials and heat stored in solid fuel rods that require running water to keep them cool. If the rods don't receive enough water and overheat, the entire facility is at risk of a meltdown.
The new solution proposed by the BYU scientists will store the leftover radioactive elements in molten salts instead of fuel rods. "Nuclear energy can be extremely safe and extremely affordable, if done the right way," Memmott explained. "It’s a very good solution to the energy situation we're in because there are no emissions or pollution from it."
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It would be like striking oil
It's only viable for places that already have security (military bases, etc) or where a bunch of them can be located together (spreading the security cost among a bunch).
Your the nice gator.
Make nuclear small, and you’ve got power for desalinization and molecule splitting to produce hydrogen.
I try to bring the funny.
Hey, what about me?
ALF: “Yeah! A personal-sized nuclear-power plant! It was the latest fad on Melmac! In fact, it was the last fad on Melmac!”
To operate an on-board generation system, an electric vehicle could adapt this technology. It is only necessary to have a point source of heat. A very small molten-salt nuclear reactor can supply that point source of heat, and the heat can be used to operate a Stirling cycle hot-air motor which drives a generator unit, feeding power to the drive wheels.
Only trouble is, there is no throttle on the nuclear reactor, it generates this heat continuously. While not in use, the heat would have to be vented in some way, perhaps for home heating, or a similar fixed-position Stirling cycle motor driving a generator through a connector coupling while the vehicle is not in transit. It is the problem of too much and in the wrong place.
Clever minds can go to work on this problem.
I try. I like having fun more than fighting.
I like chicks better too.
—”The Radioactive Boy Scout.”
YES!
Good memory.
Have you visited the new range on lake street in Hanover Park/ Keeneyville?
Excellent idea to spread the technology, perhaps sell franchises since it could an out of the box type business. Of course government would be fully supportive of the idea, right?
—” In fact, it was the last fad on Melmac!”
Alf was off his feed, and not allowed to dine on the family cat.
He may have been delirious when he said that.
That's no good. Where's the political leverage for endless demagoguery in that?
Fetterman? He aspires to rise to that level some day.
He’s so grumpy so often.
Hey, you got kudos for the song references today.
Don’t steal my Kool-Aid... :)
“Have you visited the new range on lake street in Hanover Park/ Keeneyville.”
We drove by it the other day but we haven’t been in yet. We aren’t really in the market for any more firearms and we do our shooting at our club. Besides, the parking lot was full.
LOL
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—”the parking lot was full.”
A good sign.
You weren’t in the gator fight. I guess your ok also ot you wouldn’t be here.
My oldest sister was named after one of those planes, Anola.
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