Lets just invade the oil bearing countries, enslave the men, breed with the women, and take their oil.
Ideally we would want millions of tiny electric power plants spaced every block or so.
There are no easy answers.
That is what Edison wanted, and thank God it never happened. Loss is not an issue to the point that we need plants every block, just one every few hundred miles would suffice. You can thank Tesla for that.
Brunswick in Brunswick County
Between 2002 and 2005, Progress Energy added 244 MW in new capacity at units 1 and 2 through uprates.
In 2003, Unit 1 set a world record for continuous operation of a boiling water reactor (BWR), 707 days.
Operator: Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc.
Location and Service Territory: The Brunswick power plant, named for the county in which it is located, covers 1,200 acres at the mouth of the Cape Fear River.
Construction Cost: $2.490 billion (2007 USD)
Reactor Descriptions: Both units are General Electric Type 4 boiling water reactors.
Cooling System: The Brunswick facility is cooled with a once-through system that pulls water from the Cape Fear River and discharges it 2,000 feet out in the Atlantic Ocean.
Shearon Harris in Wake County
The last construction permit issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission went to the Harris Plant on January 27, 1978.
On February 19, 2008, Progress Energy applied to the NRC to build two AP1000 reactors at the Harris plant. The application is currently under review.
Shearon Harris: Progress Energy Carolinas submitted a COL application to the NRC in February 2008 to construct and operate two additional reactors at the Shearon Harris site. The reactor design will be Westinghouses AP1000. According to Progress, commercial operations would begin no earlier than 2018.
Edison wanted DC power and Tesla was behind AC power, good thing AC won out.
How many of you have actually checked to see where your power comes from or how many plants your homes utility provider has or is planning to construct ?
At this rate I'll never fulfill my dream of building a 1st gen graphite cooled reactor directly on the San Andreas Fault made entirely of C4 and Papier-mâché, covered in ungrounded lightning rods and graffiti mocking every belief system in existence
At this rate I'll never fulfill my dream of building a 1st gen graphite cooled reactor directly on the San Andreas Fault made entirely of C4 and Papier-mâché, covered in ungrounded lightning rods and graffiti mocking every belief system in existence
I bet libs use more. Takes a lot of power to charge up that Macbook, iPod, iPhone, and Volt.
If it takes a 9.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami to almost kinda sorta meltdown a nuclear reactor, then I want Japan building all my power plants.
Well, weren't those plants built by GE?
Lets just invade the oil bearing countries, enslave the men, breed with the women, and take their oil.
Not to mention their disturbing propensity for exploding.The men make poor slaves and the women are horrid and prudish. Kill the whole lot and take the oil.
Not to mention their disturbing propensity for exploding.
Not in favor of killing them either though.
So what you're saying is that because there's a slim chance that two gigantic natural disasters might occur within an hour of each other and because one plant had trouble with them, we should stop building and disregard the entire technology as "too dangerous".
Shit, if we had that kind of attitude, we'd have stopped refining oil after Katrina, and certainly after the BP spill last year. I mean, heck...disasters might cause problems, so obviously the entire industry is unsafe.
But, hey, that's OK, because we always have wind and solar...at least until something happens at a wind or solar farm.
Seriously, shit happens...get over it. If anything, this should spur the government into action to allow more, newer nuclear reactors to come online so that the old, unsafe ones can be decomissioned.
Until this diaster it was my layman's understanding that all US nuclear plants were supposed to be like this. It was my understanding that if there is a problem/loss of power the rods were supposed to drop by gravity into the block that stops/greatly slows the reaction. I thought the multiple redundant backup systems beyond simple gravity were just icing on the cake. At least that's the way it has always been sold to us from PR material and tours of the power plants I went on as a kid.
Chernobyl didn't worry me much-Russian design and Russian workmanship. Only the North Koreans would cut more corners on safety than them. This worries me a lot because I think it's safe to assume the nuclear plants in Japan are at least as well designed, built and maintained as those here, including the one about ten miles from my home.
The pro-nuclear proponents here are grossly overreacting, to use a bad pun. All Lieberman said was let's hold up until we figure out what went wrong in Japan, and whether we should make corrections here. Pretty common sense, especially when we don't have a whole lot (if any) new nuclear plants in the construction pipeline anyway. He did not call for shutting down our current plants, or a future ban. The reaction is kind of like when the NRA gets its panties twisted when there are calls to regulate in any way cop killing armor piercing bullets, machine guns or bazookas.
If it takes a 9.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami to almost kinda sorta meltdown a nuclear reactor, then I want Japan building all my power plants.
I guess I can understand just waiting for this thing to go over and look over what happened, see what we can do to prevent those same things from happening here etc
I really hope we don't slow it down too much though. The last reactor was built in what 1979?
And now that we are finally going to start building some more theres another incident.
I hope our politicians don't make any knee jerk decisions because of this, thats probably asking a lot though unfortunately.
Well how are people supposed to charge up their Volts now??? Sorry guys, maybe you can strap a windmill to the top of the thing.
Knee jerking at its best.
Thanks for saving me the work.Harvey, while you're at it, let's post some other pictures:
Harvey, while you're at it, let's post some other pictures: