Thanks P.J. :-)
2011/3/15 P. J. Alling <[email protected]>: > Oh, if you think that's bad look up the published specifications of the US > DOE's latest Tokamak, a basket ball court sized device with superconductors > holding nearly an atomic bomb's worth of energy surrounded by a liquid > sodium blanket. What could go wrong? > > On 3/15/2011 11:42 AM, AlunFoto wrote: >> >> 2011/3/15 David Parsons<[email protected]>: >>> >>> There is plenty of Uranium on this planet, it's not really rare. >> >> Far more common than eg. silver. It's mining the stuff that is >> difficult. AFAIK, Canada is the only country left with ore containing >>> >>> 1% U. >>> Besides that, the waste fuel can be re-used (but currently isn't due >>> to government policies, not from any technical reason) and the supply >>> can be extended for several usage cycles. >> >> If breeder reactors had no technical issues at all, you wouldn't have >> to blame the government. The Fast Flux Test Facility in USA was an >> experimental breeder of sorts, wasn't it? IIRC it used liquid sodium >> for cooling the core, but transferred the energy to steam before >> putting it through the turbines. Nobody knows if that design is >> quake-proof. It's probably not. If the steam leaked into the sodium >> cirquit, it would ka-boom enough to maybe even satisfy Marvin the >> Martian. :-) >> >> Not that I claim to be an expert on these things, but then again, who is? >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
