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All,
A member recently took great umbrage at a news story that I posted because it didn’t have anything to do with ham radio. If you are similarly offended, please DO NOT READ THE STORY in this post, it has absolutely nothing to do with ham radio.
For those of you that are open-minded to getting information on non-ham news events, you might be interested in reading Westinghouse unveils small modular nuclear reactor.
Small nuke is the way of the future. Current plants are based on 1950’s designs and do create waste that is a disposal problem. But think small nuke, like the US military uses in aircraft carriers and submarines and integrated with current and very sophisticated computer systems that those two items do not even have. Using them in a distributed system would mitigate if not eliminate Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) induced failure on a wide-scale. They could be economically deployed to smaller less populated areas. If they were kept isolated from the larger grid, if there was a grid failure then they could be connected to the grid incrementally. My only surprise is that they are talking about only one and it not being operational for a decade. I don’t understand the delay.
Be safe,
Phillip
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Hmmm.
Two things: First, read the *entire* EULA for *any* Microsoft product with regards to using at a nuclear power facility. The corporate equivalent of, “duck ‘n cover”.
Not good.
Second, This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1
And for a bonus round … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory
Eventually, the only really workable solution for on-demand high density energy generation — and sufficient accessible storage density — will be nuclear in nature. Nothing else fits the equation.
One just seriously hopes it will happen in a time whence wisdom, caution and abundant attention to safety, excellence and minor details has become the norm — instead of the exception.
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