Collimatrix Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Guys, I'm just about done with research for a mega-post (which is sort of like an essay, but less rigorous) on nuclear energy. Are there any topics you would like to see me cover in particular? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Fuel cycle Differences between military and civilian reactors Why thorium advocates are (usually) wrong Comparison of various reactor types Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Seconded. Also an expanded post on nuuuuuuuukes iiiiiiin spaaaaaaaace LostCosmonaut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Why hippies are wrong would be a nice section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Regarding the wrongness of hippies, it's highly annoying to me how people flip shit about Three Mile Island, and how it has basically shut down construction of nuclear plants in this country. Yes, what happened at TMI was a bad thing, but to hear people talk about it you would think the entire state of Pennsylvania was turned to a radioactive wasteland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted October 30, 2014 Report Share Posted October 30, 2014 Out here we have Hanford and the Downwinders. Which would be a good name for a garage/punk band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 Seconding T__As suggestion. Vote to include the caveat 'even when they are on yhe right side of the debate'. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted April 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 OK, I'm actually still working on this. I'm stuck for a couple of niggling and stupid reasons. 1) I moved house in January and lost the outline. I could re-create it, but have not done so. 2) I'm working on the section on reactor design types, and I've realized that my organizational scheme is a complete mess. I should re-make it entirely, but I don't know of a good scheme to categorize reactor designs by. Some people categorize them by coolant, which is weird because otherwise very dissimilar reactor designs end up in the same categories because they happen to use burned, mashed-up hippies for coolant or whatever, while others categorize them by moderator and sort of lump all the fast neutron designs together. 3) The next section is on burn-up, and I need to do a lot of reading on that still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted April 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Fuck it. This became a multi-part article. Part 1 is up. Xlucine 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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