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To: yldstrk

I’m all for it as long as we use the more advanced and modern designs that fail safe.


15 posted on 03/23/2011 8:24:31 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: taxcontrol
I’m all for it as long as we use the more advanced and modern designs that fail safe.

One very good advance in nuke power are pebble bed reactors. They're design incorporates a passive safety mechanism that greatly reduces the need for redundant active controls. From what I've heard, they would be practically impossible to meltdown, even if you were trying to do so.

19 posted on 03/23/2011 8:34:58 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (When evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will believe in abject nonsense.)
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