Re: Yet another new battery breakthrough

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:46:32 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 19 Dec 2007 08:48:06 GMT, Robert Latest <boblatest@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Martin Griffith wrote:

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html

"The [...] reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and
totally automatic and will not overheat."

Hey, that's great! A safe nuclear reactor at last. Also note the welcome
change in marketing language, quite different from the "Prone to failure by
human error--non-negligible risk of contaminating large populated arteas"
that we got so used to.

robert

How could that reactor be safe? It would have a critical mass of
uranium, and produce the standard cocktail of incredibly nasty hot
isotopes. And it would kill any person or cat who hung out in the
vicinity for very long. At least you wouldn't need to mow the grass
nearby. Hey, store the apartment complex's garbage next to the
reactor, so it will stay fresh and odorless.

John

Sounds like something everyone in San Francisco should have... along
with their overly taxed caffeinated soft drinks ;-)

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