Comments on: The Navy has disposed of 142 reactor compartment packages

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:56:12 +0000

A professor of construction management who did research on reactor disassembly and disposal told me that the costs of doing so equalled the costs of the initial construction, and that the regulatory agencies had not built that cost into the electric rates.

By: Lu An Li

Lu An Li — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:14:37 +0000

Idaho Falls where most if not all of those reactors buried. Most atomic place the USA. I hope all that stuff properly safeguarded.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 04:44:58 +0000

The main issues are size and mass production. Miniaturization and mass manufacture of computers are what turned them from dog-slow room-sized glorified artillery calculators to lightning-quick Apple Vision Pro and gAI estuaries. I should be able to have a disposable nuclear reactor the size of a D battery with the power output of a portable gas generator and the half-life of an unvaccinated house cat. Instead they chose to zero out real economic growth in 1971 and give women bank accounts in 1974 to “solve the population problem” and play peekaboo with 280 characters and “flying cars” in the form of upsized upjumped quadcopter drones of impossibly high disk loading.

America was cool once, once upon a time, before the lawyer coup.