Damn the measuring instruments, full speed ahead! Those instruments tell sometimes nasty things.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>wrote: > A couple of people have written to me to say that this is a test reactor so > you would not need a permit for it. I doubt that. > > In the US you are not allowed to install a 1 MW conventional boiler without > a license, and you are not allowed to operate it without a permit. I do not > think they would make an exception for a nuclear reactor that works by > unknown principles. On the contrary, this would probably invite more > scrutiny than usual. > > Peter Gluck <peter.gl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At such a great scale "The Oct. 28 Test" is a contradiction >> in terms- it has to be at least "the 3 days test starting on Oct. 28" >> No company having elementary idea of engineering would accept a short test >> for such a Behemoth, there are necessary hours to make all the 52 Fat-Cats >> functional . . . >> > > I agree. Plus you would need a week or two setting up and calibrating the > instruments beforehand, and some days to take apart the machine and look > inside it, either before the run or after. > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
