200 KW mini-reactor

Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) wrote:
Here's a NSFW (Not Safe For Work) video for you, since you're so fond
of Barbara Eden:
http://www.jibjab.com/view/86147


That girl in the video was a dead ringer for her. :-D

Pat

On Dec 21, 2:38*pm, (Derek Lyons) wrote:
"Martha Adams" wrote:

[ a recently illustrated space 'colony'.]

But the really big missed thing is Work. *Look at that nice
pictu what do the people *do* in this place? *What is its
purpose? *Settlements are communities: they exist in a
larger social environment where they do something that
covers costs of existing there. *This projected settlement
touches on nothing of the sort: it can only exist as a
parasite, continuously supported. *Thus it features a major
failing and in my view, it cannot exist over the long run.

That is one of the negative legacies of Star Trek in particular, and
of science fiction in general - the existence of 'colonies' with no
visible means of support.

The support is called "artistic license". One cannot apply pure
science to science fiction and get it.

Eric


D.
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Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/

-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

On Dec 20, 9:43 pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:30:43 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

The future is officially here!
The robot is vacuuming the floor, the flat screen TV is on the
wall...but something is missing...The Nuclear Reactor In The Basement of
course!:
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...shiba-micro-nu...
This could have major ramifications for space exploration and bases on
other planets.
Is this now small enough to drive a large vehicle?

Size isn't the only issue. How do you do electrical conversion in a
reliable way, and how do you keep it cool?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galena_Nuclear_Power_Plant

technical data in NRC proposal

http://www.roe.com/pdfs/technical/Ga...er%20Rev02.pdf

It is a straight up steam turbine set up being run by a heat from a
low pressure sodium coolant loop in the reactor. The reactor is a
very simple modular design with one (1) control rod, passive safety
feature (to shut it down as required and not needing power to work)
and is supposed to have a life of 30 years and the whole reactor core
is to be removed and disposed of at the end of it's useful life and
possibly replaced with another reactor core module.

All radioactive materials to stay in the reactor module through the
life of the reactor and removed for final disposal at the end of life.

What it says in the advert anyway.

On Dec 26, 11:24 pm, Alfred Montestruc wrote:
On Dec 20, 9:43 pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:30:43 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

The future is officially here!
The robot is vacuuming the floor, the flat screen TV is on the
wall...but something is missing...The Nuclear Reactor In The Basement of
course!:
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...shiba-micro-nu...
This could have major ramifications for space exploration and bases on
other planets.
Is this now small enough to drive a large vehicle?

Size isn't the only issue. How do you do electrical conversion in a
reliable way, and how do you keep it cool?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galena_Nuclear_Power_Plant

technical data in NRC proposal

http://www.roe.com/pdfs/technical/Ga...tepaper%20Rev0...

It is a straight up steam turbine set up being run by a heat from a
low pressure sodium coolant loop in the reactor. The reactor is a
very simple modular design with one (1) control rod, passive safety
feature (to shut it down as required and not needing power to work)
and is supposed to have a life of 30 years and the whole reactor core
is to be removed and disposed of at the end of it's useful life and
possibly replaced with another reactor core module.

All radioactive materials to stay in the reactor module through the
life of the reactor and removed for final disposal at the end of life.

What it says in the advert anyway.

Sounds perfectly doable and relatively failsafe as of at least a
decade ago.

- Brad Guth

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:39:33 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Scott
Hedrick" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:


"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
...
opened the window curtains during daylight so my neighbors could see that I
spend around 97.5% of my time in the apartment either stark naked or
wearing only my briefs

Rhonda must be drooling...

More likely shopping lobotomies to purge the image from her brain.

On Dec 29, 2:56*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:39:33 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Scott
Hedrick" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:



"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
...
opened the window curtains during daylight so my neighbors could see that I
spend around 97.5% of my time in the apartment either stark naked or
wearing only my briefs

Rhonda must be drooling...

More likely shopping lobotomies to purge the image from her brain.

Rand, did you say "I do" for both you and your wife during your
marriage? As much as you like thinking for other people I feel it is a
fair question.

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:39:05 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Eric Chomko made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On Dec 29, 2:56*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:39:33 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Scott
Hedrick" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:



"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
...
opened the window curtains during daylight so my neighbors could see that I
spend around 97.5% of my time in the apartment either stark naked or
wearing only my briefs

Rhonda must be drooling...

More likely shopping lobotomies to purge the image from her brain.

Rand, did you say "I do" for both you and your wife during your
marriage? As much as you like thinking for other people I feel it is a
fair question.

Why would I, or anyone else, care what an idiot "feels" (the right
word, since you never actually think) is a fair question?

On Dec 31, 12:53*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:39:05 -0800 (PST), in a place far, far away,
Eric Chomko made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:





On Dec 29, 2:56*pm, (Rand Simberg)
wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:39:33 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Scott
Hedrick" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
...
opened the window curtains during daylight so my neighbors could see that I
spend around 97.5% of my time in the apartment either stark naked or
wearing only my briefs

Rhonda must be drooling...

More likely shopping lobotomies to purge the image from her brain.

Rand, did you say "I do" for both you and your wife during your
marriage? As much as you like thinking for other people I feel it is a
fair question.

Why would I, or anyone else, care what an idiot "feels" (the right
word, since you never actually think) is a fair question?

Well since you're an idiot, why don't you answer the question.