Posted on 11/19/2020 5:20:31 PM PST by blueplum
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. government said Thursday that Idaho is its preferred choice ahead of Tennessee for a test reactor to be built as part of an effort to revamp the nation’s fading nuclear power industry by developing safer fuel and power plants.
The U.S. Department of Energy said in an email to The Associated Press that the site that includes Idaho National Laboratory will be listed as its preferred alternative in a draft environmental impact statement planned for release in December.
The Versatile Test Reactor, or VTR, would be the first new test reactor built in the U.S. in decades and give the nation a...
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A thorium reactor, I hope.
I’m for nuclear power but if you want to ensure that it’s safe build the prototype in Wash. DC.
Of course it’s not a thorium reactor.
That wouldn’t be complicated enough.
‘Tennessine. Ornl.. hello?
Keep it out of Idaho. Several volcanos are threatening to erupt as is the Yellowstone caldera in next-door Montana. All that shaking would definitely blow up the nukes.
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/idaho.html
You're kidding right?
“‘Tennessine. Ornl.. hello?”
First, work on nuclear energy is the best news I’ve heard in a long time.
Second, the reactor might be designed at ORNL in Oak Ridge, Tn.
Not kidding. My daughter lives in ID and I’m right next-door in Eastern WA.
There’s already an abandoned nuclear site in ID. I have driven past it. Seriously creepy and also seriously guarded. Some I or BLM creep could sneak in and plant explosives, blow it up. Prevailing winds would take nuclear waste right over my daughter’s house.
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/idaho/id-atomic-city/
“A thorium reactor, I hope.”
Duh, VERSATILE test reactor.
Because it generates neutrons at higher speeds than current testing facilities, VTR can perform tests for a broader range of nuclear energy technologies. VTR will conduct multiple experiments and tests simultaneously for multiple users and different technologies. This research will support development of advanced nuclear technologies, as well as the continued operation of the current fleet of nuclear reactors. VTR also could be used to conduct experiments supporting the production of medical isotopes used to treat cancer and other diseases.
Obviously above your paygrade.
I defer to you. You’d be very familiar with things being above your paygrade.
Well you need to learn the difference between nuclear reactors and nuclear bombs - they are not the same. Nuclear reactors don’t “explode” and “shaking” causes them to shut down. Nuclear “explosions” are in fact among the most complicated reactions in modern science. It’s actually extremely difficult to create such an “explosion” with nuclear material. Shaking, banging, and breaking causes complicated machinery to fail. You can’t set one off with a hammer or dropping it on the ground. You’ve been watching too many liberal Hollywood movies.
That’’s odd
The reactors (plural) in Japan got shook up get before they **exploded**.
you know, like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haUawwm7l4k
I hope so too. I have been a fan of the Pebble Bed concept.
The Jap reactors exploded because the tsunami flooded the back-up generators used to power the cooling systems.
I would be surprised if the project did come to Idaho. We seem to be the forgotten state. Although we do have the facility for it at the INL. Would be a great “shot in the arm” for our side of the state.
As for volcanoes, when Yellowstone blows, we’ll all be history anyway. So, it is what it is. I live about 35 miles downwind from Atomic City, so if a nuke “goes off”, we’re still done. 🙄
Interestingly, I was on a Russian flight back in the late 90’s, and on the flight map where all the large cities are shown, Atomic City was listed with a star by it. I found that rather odd... almost seemed like a target.
“The Jap(anese) reactors exploded because the tsunami flooded the back-up generators used to power the cooling systems.”
Well,AFAIK, GE decided to do it that way because they didn’t want to build cooling towers on one of the numerous nearby hills.
Remember how “this technology was SO safe that a meltdown couldn’t happen in a million years.”?
Well, now they’re still melting down after almost 10 years into the Pacific Ocean and it is unstoppable because the are underground rivers under the reactors flowing into the Pacific.
The reactors are SO radioactive that even robots melt trying to get near them to fix them. And this is only about 80 kilometres from Tokyo.
They don’t explode? Have a look
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fukushima+explosion+live
The only thing as ephemeral as promises of new nuclear energy is NASA returning to the moon. (Both are always 10 years away).
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