OT: Gas Prices

Renegade 13 · #1 April 23rd, 2006, 04:24 PM

Fast Neutron Reactor Wikipedia Link

It's fast-neutron reactors I was thinking about. I've included a link to get you started.

They are capable of 'burning' spent nuclear fuel from conventional thermal reactors, and rendering such spent fuel much less toxic at the same time.

Baron Munchausen · #2 April 23rd, 2006, 07:02 PM

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Renegade 13 said:
Fast Neutron Reactor Wikipedia Link

It's fast-neutron reactors I was thinking about. I've included a link to get you started.

They are capable of 'burning' spent nuclear fuel from conventional thermal reactors, and rendering such spent fuel much less toxic at the same time.

It might have been the 'Integral Fast Reactor' actually. This is a specific type of 'fast neutron reactor' designed to completely use up the fuel and leave very little radioactive waste. The US project to develop this was in the news in the early nineties and that's where you might have heard of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor

Renegade 13 · #3 April 26th, 2006, 03:09 AM

And there's some scary people in charge of China...

Ragnarok-X · #4 April 26th, 2006, 01:32 PM

FYI,
over here one litre of gas (not diesel, lead-free) costs exactly 1,63 $ atm. You can see where your prices are going within the next months, should the iran-issue further escalate.

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 April 26th, 2006, 01:37 PM

Yes, but they don't need to do anything to make their populace consume a lot.