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2015-10-24 Economy

Feds Approve First New Nuclear Reactor In 20 Years

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-24 05:35|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 I hope they got it right. I live 30 miles downwind.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-10-24 05:47|| 2015-10-24 05:47|| Front Page Top

What could possibly go wrong ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-24 06:02|| 2015-10-24 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Now, the long unending court fights by the greenies.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-10-24 08:49|| 2015-10-24 08:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Hopefully, and I mean I really hope, by the time this is ready to come online one of the Fusion start-ups will have produced a working design that produces more energy than it takes to run. Even better would be the Proton/Boron11 reaction cycle that offers the direct conversion to electricity. And I think the start-ups are the best bet because I sure don't trust any of the government backed research such as ITER to work. With the possible exception of the Navy's such efforts. After all the Navy is interested in a useful end product. The DOEs fusion researchers are interested more in process, expermentation, discussions, meetings and their end product is of course the Holy Grail of acedamia "Publication". The DOEs efforts have been more about producing papers and phds than electricity. After all if we had cheap electricity our betters (the afore mentioned phds) might be offended that we might use that energy to run our A/G's or other such nonsense.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2015-10-24 10:00|| 2015-10-24 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Also, when Fusion finally becomes possibe the Greens will fight it tooth and nail. Because it isn't "re-newable". It isn't "green". It isn't "Earth friendly". Oh, wait we can't say "Earth". It has to be "earth" because the capitalization of the first letter might be construed as "sexist", "racist", or poosibly religous. Better to tell everybody the reactor runs on pixie dust and harmonious thoughts

Posted by Cheaderhead 2015-10-24 10:06|| 2015-10-24 10:06|| Front Page Top

#6 I live 30 miles downwind.

This is the second reactor at the site. Watts Bar 1 has been online nearly 20 years. 2300 MW is the two reactors total capacity.

BTW, WB-1 also produces tritium for US nuke weapons.

Posted by Betty Hitler2611 2015-10-24 10:13|| 2015-10-24 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Does anybody remember that when Sir/St Thomas More wrote Utopia the word literally meant "nowhere"

Posted by Cheaderhead 2015-10-24 10:39|| 2015-10-24 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 This is the second reactor at the site.
The people that built No 1 are not the ones that built No 2. The present Authority can't keep an Ash Pond in one place.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-10-24 12:24|| 2015-10-24 12:24|| Front Page Top

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