Author Topic: Congrats Australia! (Read 857 times)

SD67 · « **Reply #30 on:** November 26, 2007, 02:35:35 AM »

I visited the site once when I was studying Electrical Engineering it was an informative visit..

SD67 · « **Reply #31 on:** November 26, 2007, 02:36:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Excel1
that explains kings cross

-tronski- · « **Reply #32 on:** November 26, 2007, 08:11:09 AM »

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Originally posted by Bluedog
It seems a lot of people do not realise that there has been an operational nuclear reactor in Sydney for very nearly fifty years.
Lucas Heights reactor went critical in January 1958.

Yeah I drive past it when I visit my brother...I love how they renamed the suburb to take away the stigma of the research reactor

Tronsky

Boroda · « **Reply #33 on:** November 26, 2007, 11:25:01 AM »

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Originally posted by -tronski-
Yeah I drive past it when I visit my brother...I love how they renamed the suburb to take away the stigma of the research reactor

As I said before - I can see a small research reactor from my window at work, it's across the fence in Physical Problems Institute. It was shut down maybe 20 years ago, but it's still there. It's at Kosygin street 2, 500m from Gagarin square, now it's almost center of Moscow. We had like 16 reactors in Moscow, now they are trying to withdraw Kurchatov's institute from the city, but several reactors will remain here anyway.

Tronski, I thought you were from Canada?

68ROX · « **Reply #34 on:** November 26, 2007, 11:35:13 AM »

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Imo MODERN nuclear plants are alot better than coal burning plants so i think the future may be nuclear perhaps based on Thorium fuel. There should be strict design criteria and an international org that can certify and inspect all plants and make sure they are run and maintained at a very high level of safety.

I agree....and yet ANOTHER valid reason that buttmonkies like Iran should never get one.

"Achmed....what is THIS button for?".......(mushroom cloud)"

68ROX

bongaroo · « **Reply #35 on:** November 26, 2007, 11:40:24 AM »

N.C. State has a small research reactor right in the middle of campus. Pretty cool actually.

What happens if the rocket carrying all the waste to space fails and dumps it all over somewhere? that isn't worth the risk me thinks.

Boroda · « **Reply #36 on:** November 26, 2007, 11:59:50 AM »

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Originally posted by 68ROX
I agree....and yet ANOTHER valid reason that buttmonkies like Iran should never get one.

"Achmed....what is THIS button for?".......(mushroom cloud)"

What if this Iranians think the same about Americans or Russians?

Americans laughed when in 1947 Molotov said that there is no such thing as a "secret of an Atomic Bomb". Don't underestimate your opponent. Iran is advancing quite fast and building a modern society, they are not prehistoric savages from "300 Spartans".