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Old 03-20-2011, 02:20 PM   #1
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Default How to make a nuclear reactor that can't have a meltdown

...Or, "How Trip might sleep better":

http://dvice.com/archives/2011/03/how-to-make-a-n.php
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Old 03-20-2011, 02:32 PM   #2
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The lates generation of nuke reactors don't require any outside power to maintain the core temperature, the only reason this is an issue is because these 20 year old design reactors were hit with a natural disaster far beyond what anyone though could have been possible. Other than this incident, there was TMI, and Chernobyl. Chernobyl doesnt count because it was a bad russian design that was broken by human error and stupid tests ,and their shit was crap to begin with. TMI was an accident, but how many people actually got hurt? 0. There have been a bunch of other minor incidents, mostly dealing with leaky pipes and electrical issues.Also, how many people have actually died from problems with reactors? I bet the number is far less than those that have died mining coal for coal plants or from busting dams.

Anyway, cool link
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The lates generation of nuke reactors don't require any outside power to maintain the core temperature, the only reason this is an issue is because these 20 year old design reactors were hit with a natural disaster far beyond what anyone though could have been possible. Other than this incident, there was TMI, and Chernobyl. Chernobyl doesnt count because it was a bad russian design that was broken by human error and stupid tests ,and their shit was crap to begin with. TMI was an accident, but how many people actually got hurt? 0. There have been a bunch of other minor incidents, mostly dealing with leaky pipes and electrical issues.Also, how many people have actually died from problems with reactors? I bet the number is far less than those that have died mining coal for coal plants or from busting dams.

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More like 40 year old design...
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I think passive is the only way to go. Any active system WILL fail, simply because it can.
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I think passive is the only way to go. Any active system WILL fail, simply because it can.

Cant have a passive system, we need an active system to create jobs (I'm just looking for a reason to argue)
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It's PBR. How good could it be?
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Personally, I think that solar and geothermal are the way to go. We just need to get solar more efficient (I understand wildly more efficient panels are already "in the channel").

PBR is clearly not terribly efficient, but I think PBR is, nonetheless, perhaps a good alternative to offer countries that insist on having nuclear power, whom we don't want having any nuke weapons, as extracting weapons grade materials from the pellets is not practical.
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Any system is open to failure. The one in germany they tried clearly had issues with us maintaining it.

That's the issue, humans still have to maintain and design it.
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Personally, I think that solar and geothermal are the way to go. We just need to get solar more efficient (I understand wildly more efficient panels are already "in the channel").

PBR is clearly not terribly efficient, but I think PBR is, nonetheless, perhaps a good alternative to offer countries that insist on having nuclear power, whom we don't want having any nuke weapons, as extracting weapons grade materials from the pellets is not practical.
In a temperate climate-I agree. Try doing GeoTherm or Solar in Alaska.
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