{"id":197439,"date":"2008-02-04T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/04\/bad-ideas-combining-nuclear-power-with-explosive-metals\/"},"modified":"2008-02-04T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T03:38:00","slug":"bad-ideas-combining-nuclear-power-with-explosive-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/04\/bad-ideas-combining-nuclear-power-with-explosive-metals\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Ideas: Combining Nuclear Power With Explosive Metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that there advantages to Sodium cooled reactors, particularly the fact that, because of the small cross section of the nucleus of Sodium, you can get a much more complete burn with fewer waste products, but that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologynewsdaily.com\/node\/9120\">Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Prototype Development, memorandum of understanding<\/a> (MOU) will lead nowhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The U.S Department of Energy (DOE), the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have expanded cooperation to coordinate Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Prototype development through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU establishes a collaborative framework with the ultimate goal of deploying sodium-cooled fast reactor prototypes. A sodium-cooled fast reactor uses liquid sodium to transfer heat, burning the plutonium and other transuranic elements in the process producing clean, safe nuclear power, less waste and increasing non-proliferation goals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes the Hindenberg look like a cap gun.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid Sodium <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">explodes on contact with air<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand that there advantages to Sodium cooled reactors, particularly the fact that, because of the small cross section of the nucleus of Sodium, you can get a much more complete burn with fewer waste products, but that the Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Prototype Development, memorandum of understanding (MOU) will lead nowhere. The U.S Department of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1249,1163,1042,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nuclear-power","category-proliferation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}