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cyclops222

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I am buying the 3 Mile Island Power Plant.
Could someone give me good ideas on starting it up ? I have no experience with reactors. Thank you.
 

racerone

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I have some friends that can help you.-----But it takes more than one person.------Takes more than 1 million $$ -----Takes more than one button to start one of these places.
 

Scott Danforth

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Just need this guy and his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space modulator. (linked from the url below)

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southkogs

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Latch on to the north end of the island with a good hook. Full steam ahead for 25 feet or so ... then let the clutch out on the reactor.
 

racerone

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They will need a few more of these plants to charge the batteries on millions of cars / trucks in a few years.----Amazing how little knowledge is out there on how much electricity is needed to run all the green / electric stuff.
 

64osby

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My son did a study for his engineering degree, the results showed the best "green energy" option was nuclear energy.
 

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My son did a study for his engineering degree, the results showed the best "green energy" option was nuclear energy.
Very true, it is the most efficient.....the only real problem is we still do not know how to dispose of the waste !! The old storage containers from way back are starting to leak....
 

tphoyt

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Very true, it is the most efficient.....the only real problem is we still do not know how to dispose of the waste !! The old storage containers from way back are starting to leak....
Remember when they thought it was a good idea to drop the barrels on the ocean floor.
Who knows how many were really dumped but it’s sure to surface someday.
 

racerone

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Up my way the so called " spent fuel " is not waste.---It is stored and taken care of.-----Unlike the waste from big cities ( your toilet ?) that is flushed away to pollute the oceans. --Unlike the logs on a fire the used fuel looks the same after use.-----You grandkids might figure out a way to take that fuel and put it in a different style reactor.----Near free energy perhaps.-----Nuclear is much mis-understood.----Or perhaps should have been spelled ----" UNCLEAR " I think.
 

dwco5051

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I have some friends that can help you.-----But it takes more than one person.------Takes more than 1 million $$ -----Takes more than one button to start one of these places.
Let's form a partnership. I will gather up a bunch of my old Navy buddies and will supply you with not only reactor operators but nuke certified welders if anything needs fixed before we throw the switch. My last duty station was at a Naval Maintenance Facility in quality control making certain the the finished work package was complete with everything from chain of custody paperwork for welding rods to copies of the current eye tests for the welders and inspectors.

My father worked for Westinghouse for over forty years with most of it with the Atomic Power Division and retired out of the Astronuclear Laboratory and even had a little time on loan to another engineering firm for a project down in Tennessee in the early '40s. Some of his knowledge may have rubbed off on me.
 

dwco5051

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The----" Manhattan Project "----??
He was on loan to Stone & Webster, who was selected as the overall contractor for building the plants producing the necessary fissionable material for the Manhattan Project. Much of his work in APD later was related to containment structures for nuke power plants and designing ancillary equipment on nuke subs. I never knew where he was back then till I was probably in my 60's and my mother told me. One of my schoolmates who started at our school in suburban Pittsburgh in 3rd grade through high school actually was living in government housing at Oak Ridge before the family returned to the neighborhood. I never knew it until we reconnected on face book about 10 years ago. Her father was a micro chemist for Westinghouse and trough his work were able to rectify and produce the vast quantities of DC power need in the production of U2. People took secrecy much more serious back then.
 
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