Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Nuclear

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

It was July, 1979 at dinner time in Bruno Czechoslovakia.  Seven of us - 
four of us from San Francisco comprised of two native born, one Polak and 
one Hungarian - the other three were two Hungarian kids on honeymoon and a 
Frenchman.  The Frenchman made it interesting - he was the head dude in 
charge of nuclear reactor welding in France.  He was in Bruno for a welding 
convention.  While none of us could speak all the tables languages, we got 
along ok - most interesting dinner.  OH, the reason for this post - what I 
learned is France uses many many nuclear plants - why?  lack of rivers for 
hydro power.  AND their plants are the "other" type from the ones used in 
the US.  A fellow well known in Porsche 356 circles, The Maestro, Harry 
Pellow, was working with a company doing the French design.  US decided to 
go the other way - he's out of a job and he becomes a MIT graduate writing 
books such as "Inside the Inner Circle" a think binder tome of 356 engine 
trivia.  Question for our group - what is "the other way" to design a 
nuclear plant.  Has something to do with using sodium rather than water.  As 
in sodium filled exhaust valve stems.
Onward
DOUG


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Nuclear


> Yep. You've got it!
>
> The biggest issue with nuclear is the word "nuclear".
> It scares people to death.  Perhaps we should rename
> it "friendly" power.  Yea, that's it.  Let's campaign
> for "friendly fision power".
>
> rick
>
> --- LtWacko <ltwacko [at] aol.com> wrote:
>
> > The key to this working is enough investment in
> > safety to make the greenies give it the thumbs up.
> > Then bring down the price of "Mr. Fusion" so I can
> > cheaply power up my flux capacitor, go back in time
> > and then buy some oil futures...  naturally I'll use
> > an F-car rather than that stainless steel rolling
> > pylon.
> >
> > Rodney
> >
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 08/09/08 14:05:44 Central
> > Daylight Time, ferrari-request [at] ferrarilist.com
> > writes:
> > + The only viable solution is nuclear.
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