[Info-vax] The changing world

[Single Stage to Orbit]

On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 20:29 -0400, Dave Froble wrote:
> My son is an NRC licensed reactor operator.  His training was, and
> still is,.  He;s also had to study all the mistakes that have
> occurred.  Maybe so they won't be repeated.  He had to study
> thermodynamics, and in,  temp steam.  Anybody here believe the
> pressure on one side of a can be 200 PSI, and on the other side 600
> PSI, and the valve can be open?  That's the sad story of Three Mile
> Island.  Inadequate training.  Inadequate procedures.

Working with superheated steam is extremely dangerous. Poor quality
welding can get people killed if something lets go under pressure. 

I hate steam. I welcome the day when we can simply use the magnetic
fields generated inside a fusion reactor as a vastly more efficient way
to generate electricity. 

Steam is /just/ so 19th century. 
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Tactical Nuclear Kittens