To: elmatador who wrote (12978 ) 9/22/2024 1:27:37 PM From: Elroy Jetson 2 RecommendationsRecommended By
Read Replies (1) | Respond to China has been spending just as much money on small and safer nuclear reactors and hasn't yet built any in spite of the fact that the Chinese Communist Party doesn't have to comply with any regulations at all . When you know absolutely nothing, absolutely everything is possible. The limits to what you can do only appear after you start doing the work. You slowly or quickly learn what you can't do or don't want to do and why.tiny nuclear reactors that fit inside a shoe box. Simply surround a nuclear heat source, typically plutonium, with a thermocouple and it reliably provides non-stop power to a spacecraft or a remote location on Earth for a very long period of time before the radiation destroys the device, except when it fails suddenly earlier. The USSR also used these "reactors" to power remote weather stations and other devices, which after the fall of the USSR, were found by locals and taken apart out of curiosity and killed many people. The radiation from plutonium is relatively safe but ingesting even microscopic amounts of plutonium is deadly. In the era of the USSR no citizen would have dared to touch or open any state-owned device they found. But nuclear devices outlive communist regimes.
