The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere

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Earlier this month, the DOE announced a conditional agreement made with private firms Westinghouse and Radiant to conduct the first reactor tests at its Demonstration on Microreactor Experiment (DOME) facility, located at Idaho National Laboratory.

These experiments, featuring two trailer-sized microreactors, will be “the first of their kind in the world” ...
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The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere

Compact, energy-efficient microreactors could soon help generate electricity for remote locations.
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Trailer sized, eh? Timothy McVeigh approved.
 
There is a butt joke here somewhere?
 
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I've advocated for this for decades. During my time in the Navy I lived with a large number of nuclear power plants (submarines) surrounding me at all times. I've always thought that if we had The Army Corp Of Engineers building and operating Dams and Hydroelectric power plants why don't we have the Navy Corp Of Engineers running small Nuclear power plants all over the country. The Navy has a large number of trained nuke qualified engineers running them now and doing it safely for decades. This^^^ is a great idea. Fuck these solar & wind farms.


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Goldhedge said:
Maybe Ai can monitor and control them to keep them from going BOOM?

They would be handy in a NC, TX, NM flood situation...
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Well AI would help, but the NAVY has thousand of well trained engineers running nuclear power plants right now. They've done it safely for decades


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Can they make them as small as a gold watch?

 
I wonder if it's anything like the Russian nuclear powered missile that flew around the Earth for a day?
 
Vichris said:
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Nope,......but there's really no real demand for that


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There would be if everyone could have one in their backyard powering their home for 50 years.
 
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Goldhedge said:
Maybe Ai can monitor and control them to keep them from going BOOM?

They would be handy in a NC, TX, NM flood situation...
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That...is the problem.

While we're dumbing-down the population, AND imposing the Grate Replacement...favoring 70-IQ Haitians over average Caucasian Americans...we're gonna increase the complexity of systems in general?

A hundred years ago, a Model T was simple enough to fix with a monkey wrench and a hammer. And owners were smart enough to use those tools - in fact, smart enough to make a lot of improvements on the Model T and later cars. Occasionally even factories adopted those field improvements.

Now we have drivers named NO NAME GIVEN, driving Peterbilts with computer-controlled engines and airbags...right into vans filled with families. And those Model T owners' great-granddaughters, now middle-aged, protest and provoke LE when they try to REMOVE these illegally-imported chattel.

These are people who, seeing their car has a flat tire, will try to drive it 20 miles to the dealer for them to fix! We're gonna entrust them to handle mini-reactors, or even be in close proximity?

Small enough to trailer, hey? That probably means an envisioned use would be to trailer them out to a site. While the Instantly-American durka-durkas are out there turning our highways into killing fields?

I don't think this is a good idea. I wish it were not so; but I can't help but be realistic.
 
Casey Jones said:
That...is the problem.

While we're dumbing-down the population, AND imposing the Grate Replacement...favoring 70-IQ Haitians over average Caucasian Americans...we're gonna increase the complexity of systems in general?

A hundred years ago, a Model T was simple enough to fix with a monkey wrench and a hammer. And owners were smart enough to use those tools - in fact, smart enough to make a lot of improvements on the Model T and later cars. Occasionally even factories adopted those field improvements.

Now we have drivers named NO NAME GIVEN, driving Peterbilts with computer-controlled engines and airbags...right into vans filled with families. And those Model T owners' great-granddaughters, now middle-aged, protest and provoke LE when they try to REMOVE these illegally-imported chattel.

These are people who, seeing their car has a flat tire, will try to drive it 20 miles to the dealer for them to fix! We're gonna entrust them to handle mini-reactors, or even be in close proximity?

Small enough to trailer, hey? That probably means an envisioned use would be to trailer them out to a site. While the Instantly-American durka-durkas are out there turning our highways into killing fields?

I don't think this is a good idea. I wish it were not so; but I can't help but be realistic.
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Casey, Although I do understand your pessimism and to some degree I agree, BUT..... I'm a bit more hopeful. You should watch this. At 11:48 they touch on the Nuke issue but really this whole video should give you at least a little bit of hope.

 
Vichris said:
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Casey, Although I do understand your pessimism and to some degree I agree, BUT..... I'm a bit more hopeful. You should watch this. At 11:48 they touch on the Nuke issue but really this whole video should give you at least a little bit of hope.
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I appreciate that you want to share the optimism; but I can't see it.

If this woman is speaking factually, and not from Q papers (we had fifty years of destruction, but I don't put much stock in little men in hidden rooms, doing it...no, it was fiat money!) if she's being forthright...then we had fifty years of NOT being able to control it.

And then Captain Underpants with a QT wipe-on tan job, is gonna SAVE US ALL? Trump is a clown. That's more apparent now than eight years ago...or he's a bigger fool, senile on top of his general gaucherie.

If he's the Savior, we're not gonna be saved. Because in three years he can't/won't-be-able to do ANYTHING. Time up.

And all these smug, twisted, pleasure-driven scum are all ready to resume stealing elections, filling our formerly-liveable middle-America cities with vermin hominids, paying them to wreck hotels and drive drunk...paying them better than many with jobs.

ONLY A COMPLETE INVERSION AND SHAKING WILL SAVE US.

Larry Fink still walks. Alex Soros is still a DNC insider. Occasional Cortex and/or Gavin Hairdo, are gonna be the next invaders to the WH, if the party's not busted up.
 
Casey Jones said:
If he's the Savior, we're not gonna be saved. Because in three years he can't/won't-be-able to do ANYTHING. Time up.
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I don't think anyone is saying that. I certainly am not.

All I am going by is that he is far better than what we would have otherwise gotten.

Casey Jones said:
Larry Fink still walks. Alex Soros is still a DNC insider. Occasional Cortex and/or Gavin Hairdo, are gonna be the next invaders to the WH, if the party's not busted up
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Yea, I'd like it busted up too.
.....but that unfortunately, will take time. If it happens at all


Any cases against those and others would have to be slam dunk, airtight cases with zero wiggle room for them to possibly get out of it.

Because if it's not, they will get out.
 
Doesn't matter who is president. Congress will spend the US into a financial disaster.
 
nickndfl said:
Doesn't matter who is president. Congress will spend the US into a financial disaster.
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Yeah, but on margins, it can make a difference.

It took a vacant chair, occupied by a ventriloquist's dummy for four years...for the demented nihilists to open the border and PAY for importation costs, with money inflated out of OUR savings! Well...not stackers' savings, but very few are as deep into the Boating Accident as I am.

It took a brain-dead tool to order Jab Mandates - this from the party of My-Body-My-Choice? When it's destroying babies, and decent people want it stopped, it's a choice. When it's destroying brains and literal hearts, and the Big Pharma sociopaths want the Malthusian money-train sped up...you got no choice, you white scum. GET IN LINE FOR YOUR SAFE-AND-EFFECTIVE.

Yeah, I think the office still makes some difference. That's why I'm furious at the Orange Clown, at this point.

We got the same GD thing we voted against.
 
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