Peter Ogilvie wrote:
> I heard a snippet on the news a few weeks ago about a low tech way to
> produce power from a nuclear reaction. Think I heard that it doesn't
> produce the super long life radioactive byproducts and cannot self destruct
> like our current technology. Unfortunately, the regulators are so paranoid
> becuasue it is 'nuclear' that they won't let larger scale development
> procede without all the safeguards of our current dangerous technology.
> Because of the regulators, its too expensive to even think about and
> research money is not available. Any one know what this technology is???
Possibly pebble bed modular reactors. You can actually hold the pellets
of fuel in your hands (baseball sized). Read a paper on it at
http://www.uilondon.org/sym/1999/kemm.htm
Regards
Paul Oxley
AfricanAdrenalin.com
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