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US Oil Market Crashes
#41
RE: US Oil Market Crashes
(April 23, 2020 at 12:05 am)Fireball Wrote:
(April 22, 2020 at 9:36 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: A type of reactor that runs a "dry pile" using salts as coolant. Neat idea - but the materials-  like Hasteloy- needed to withstand the combinationa of salt corrosion and neutrino enbrittlement - are expensive and a motherfucker to machine.. (I have made parts out of it... .)

Plus - added bonus - all the shit that needs frequent replacing is radioactively hot for centuries. It's a 50 year old idea that never went anywhere because of cost.

Ask a nuke about the particulars... I'm just a schmuck who got a lecture about it...
OH. Molten Salt Reactors. My experience is with US Naval Pressurized Light Water Reactors, though I did get a bit of exposure to nuclear theory during my physics training and subsequent work in plasma isotope separation. I think that you meant neutron embrittlement, btw, not neutrino. Just a nit-pick. I was a Navy "nuke", made it through the first 6 months of classroom, and was at the hands-on training unit and celebrating making 2nd class when some people got into a "disagreement" in a local bar. It was boots and fists and pool cues all over the place. I was no longer a "nuke" or a PO2. I was lucky that the locals turned me over to the Navy for my special court-martial. Kind of hard to hide that you've been in a brawl when you show up at quarters without your glasses and big ol' knot on the side of your head from a pool cue.   Doh I just didn't run from the scene fast enough, I guess.  Blush

Yup. You probably right - neutron. Not neutrino.. Like I said - I'm not a nuke... I just had a friend explain some of this shit 20+ years ago and you got what stuck in my head....
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#42
RE: US Oil Market Crashes
(April 22, 2020 at 9:36 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:
(April 22, 2020 at 9:18 pm)Fireball Wrote: "MSR's"?

A type of reactor that runs a "dry pile" using salts as coolant. Neat idea - but the materials-  like Hasteloy- needed to withstand the combinationa of salt corrosion and neutrino enbrittlement - are expensive and a motherfucker to machine.. (I have made parts out of it... .)

Plus - added bonus - all the shit that needs frequent replacing is radioactively hot for centuries. It's a 50 year old idea that never went anywhere because of cost.

Ask a nuke about the particulars... I'm just a schmuck who got a lecture about it...
As opposed to the current nuclear stockpile which will be radioactively hot for how long?  Remind me how many millions of years?

And for a 50 year old idea that never went anywhere, isn't it odd that that 11 countries are actively working on MSR designs right now?
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#43
RE: US Oil Market Crashes
(April 23, 2020 at 7:33 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote:
(April 22, 2020 at 9:36 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: A type of reactor that runs a "dry pile" using salts as coolant. Neat idea - but the materials-  like Hasteloy- needed to withstand the combinationa of salt corrosion and neutrino enbrittlement - are expensive and a motherfucker to machine.. (I have made parts out of it... .)

Plus - added bonus - all the shit that needs frequent replacing is radioactively hot for centuries. It's a 50 year old idea that never went anywhere because of cost.

Ask a nuke about the particulars... I'm just a schmuck who got a lecture about it...
As opposed to the current nuclear stockpile which will be radioactively hot for how long?  Remind me how many millions of years?

And for a 50 year old idea that never went anywhere, isn't it odd that that 11 countries are actively working on MSR designs right now?

Sorry.. I have little sympathy for the nuke future rapists... Those greedhead shits that are willing to leave behind mountains of radioactive garbage for somebody else later on to figure out.


....

I live downwind from Palisades Nuclear plant..... Back when they were building the motherfucker - they sucked everybody in with the promise of cheap electric. "It will be so cheap you won't need an electric meter on your house". They actually said that.

My electric bill last month was not "almost free"

Then to prevent competition - they bought up several of the hydroelectric dams in the area and dynamited them.

Now it's 50 years later and the plant is due to shut down in 2 years. AND ALL THE NUCLEAR WASTE IS STILL ON SITE - WAITING TO CONTAMINATE LAKE MICHIGAN. With no plans to move it.... It will eventually contaminate the lake. There's no profit margin in dealing with radioactve garbage.

Fuck nuclear power and any cunt who is fool enough or just greedy enough to endorse it.
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