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In reply to the discussion: Snowstorm shuts down expensive nearly useless solar plant in Massachusetts. [View all]TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)14. Basement actually, but you are conceptually correct.
Small, sealed canister nukes that run maintenance free for 10-20 years at a time.
Nukes that incinerate their own ashes in situ. (And can be easily configured to burn the ashes of previous generations as well.)
Nukes that go from hot to cold at the flick of a switch, AND that is also the ONLY possible failure mode.
Nukes which can safely be run at temperatures so insanely high that hydrogen and oxygen are literally waste products.
Nukes which must be externally energised to burn their fuel one discrete and very subcritical gram at a time.
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Snowstorm shuts down expensive nearly useless solar plant in Massachusetts. [View all]
NNadir
Feb 2013
OP
Pilgrim Station nuclear plant automatically shut down in the thick of the storm Friday
hedgehog
Feb 2013
#2
Speaking as someone who probably lives closer to the nuclear disaster area
Art_from_Ark
Feb 2013
#31
Tell it to the US where the nuke industry wants $60 billion in taxpayer-guaranteed loans to
wordpix
Feb 2013
#41
You're welcome, and yes, I am proud of it and this statement in the OP is why
stevenleser
Feb 2013
#24
Meltdown: Despite the Fear, the Health Risks from the Fukushima Accident Are Minimal
wtmusic
Mar 2013
#50