Comments - Rep. Larry Dunphy: Adding more large-scale hydro would lower bills - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-28T13:21:41Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A50073&xn_auth=no60 minutes had a story about…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2013-07-29:4401701:Comment:500802013-07-29T15:07:13.047ZMike DiCensohttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/MikeDiCenso
<p>60 minutes had a story about a 14 year old kid who built a nuclear reactor in his parents garage. He is self taught and has decided to skip college and go directly to work designing and consulting for nuke interests. He states what I have been saying all along. The NEW NUKE designs are very different from designs of half a century ago. (3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukoshima) He wants to and probably has by now, design fail safe reactors which are impossible to melt down. They simply shut off…</p>
<p>60 minutes had a story about a 14 year old kid who built a nuclear reactor in his parents garage. He is self taught and has decided to skip college and go directly to work designing and consulting for nuke interests. He states what I have been saying all along. The NEW NUKE designs are very different from designs of half a century ago. (3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukoshima) He wants to and probably has by now, design fail safe reactors which are impossible to melt down. They simply shut off automatically. Let's look at other sources and not throw all our eggs in the wind basket when the impacts are so excessive and the tiny amounts of energy are so expensive.</p>