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    Russia To Ring The Arctic With Floating Nuclear Power Stations

    This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH

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    Image of Charles Hamilton Charles Hamilton
    05/03/09

    In reply to Russia To Ring The Arctic With Floating Nuclear Power Stations
    "Poor Mr. Polar Bear. When he's not jumping from melting ice chunk to ice chunk trying desperately not to drown, he's avoiding the floating Russian nuclear power stations and their potential toxic waste."


    I'll bet the Giz staffs masturbates while watching "An Inconvenient Truth".


    The Arctic ice is not melting, polar bears are not drowning.


    And Al Gore is not God.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/03/09

    @Charles Hamilton: When Gore returns to earth, every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    05/03/09

    In reply to Russia To Ring The Arctic With Floating Nuclear Power Stations
    Well, if they duplicate the power supplies for their atomic lighthouses, but more improved, the chances of theft and use would be dropped highly.
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    Image of Nintenboy01 Nintenboy01
    05/03/09

    In reply to Russia To Ring The Arctic With Floating Nuclear Power Stations
    Wait, so they've been dumping nuclear reactors and other toxic waste into the ocean? Maybe all those hideous deep-sea creatures that scientists think are new, undiscovered species are actually irradiated mutants!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/03/09

    @Nintenboy01: Godzilla!!
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    Image of jetRink jetRink
    05/03/09

    In reply to Russia To Ring The Arctic With Floating Nuclear Power Stations
    I stopped paying attention at this sentence: "The plants' potential impact on the fragile Arctic environment through emissions of radioactivity and heat remains a major concern."


    Say you have a gigawatt power plant. If it is just 10% efficient, and most plants are at least 40%, then it emits 240 gigawatt hours per day of heat. That's only equal to the amount of heat from 10 square miles of daily sunlight at the earth's surface. The ocean currents and underwater vents are thousands of times more significant when looking at heat production.

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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    05/03/09

    @jetRink: It's more the fact that this is in addition to whatever natural amounts of heat the water receives than the actual amount of heat they give off that is important. Well, that, and the nuclear waste problem.
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    Image of Dreamwriter Dreamwriter
    05/03/09

    @jetRink: You're saying that in a nuclear meltdown they don't put out any more heat than when they are normally in action?? That statement was clearly talking about the case of a nuclear accident, not normal operations.
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    Image of Daniel Grinton Daniel Grinton
    05/03/09

    @Dreamwriter: Because nuclear meltdowns are so common, am I right? The fact is that nuclear power is more efficient and, yes, safer than the functional alternatives that would have to be put up north in the situation these plants would be used for. The detractors are simply being fearmongers.
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    Image of digitalzombie digitalzombie
    05/03/09

    @Daniel Grinton: Russia + Nuclear Power Plant = chernobyl. Need I say more?
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    05/03/09

    @digitalzombie: Making such childish defenses to why these plants should not be made hinders the argument. I'm as opposed to this idea as any other person, but to suggest that Russia has learned nothing from Chernobyl is naive.
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    Image of Morgan Breden Morgan Breden
    05/03/09

    @Jesustron: Your ignorance is digusting. Your yearly energy consumption from your house does far worse to the environment than these plants will do.
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    Image of podspawn podspawn
    05/04/09

    @Morgan Breden: Tell that to someone that lived near to Three Mile Island, Einstein. Talk about an ignorant statement.
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    Image of Daniel Grinton Daniel Grinton
    05/04/09

    @podspawn: Can you actually name more than 2 nuclear accidents?
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    Image of Gann Gann
    05/04/09

    @Daniel Grinton: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/03/09

    In reply to Russia To Ring The Arctic With Floating Nuclear Power Stations
    Oh Smithers, now that I've got my beloved floating Arctic plant, and my prized collection of extinct animals encased in carbonite, I'm on top of the world!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    05/04/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: But sir, what about the inanimate carbon rod?
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    Image of nukee nukee
    05/03/09

    In reply to Russia To Ring The Arctic With Floating Nuclear Power Stations
    Didn't they learn anything from Chernobyl about poor plant design?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    05/03/09

    @nukee: Actually, IIRC, Chernobyl was the fault of the coal miners.
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    Image of Zomb Zomb
    05/04/09

    @GropedByChuckECheese_GitEmSteveDave: Actually chernobyl was caused by the Russians disabling the reactor safeties and trying to run their reactor at lower power settings when they knew that the reactor was extremely unstable at low power. Reactor began heat up and instead of being shut down by the safety precautions it continued to heat and build pressure until it exploded twice
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    05/04/09

    @Zomb: @nukee: From what I understood:


    Chernobyl was suffering from inadequate funding. Much basic maintenance had never been performed. It had only a skeleton crew, nearly all of whom were untrained workers from the local coal mine. The only manager with nuclear plant experience had been a worker installing small reactors on board Soviet submarines. Some genius decided to run a risky test of a type that no experienced nuclear engineer would ever gamble on. The test was to shut down the water pumps, which must run constantly in that type of reactor; and then find out whether the turbines, spinning on their momentum alone, had enough energy to restart and run the pumps during the forty-second delay before the backup diesel generators would kick in. The test was so risky that one faction within the plant deliberately disconnected some backup systems, trying to make the test too dangerous to attempt. The test was run anyway. It didn't work, the pumps couldn't keep up, the graphite core caught fire, the coal miners couldn't find any shovels so they didn't know what to do, and the reactor exploded.

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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    I've seen tests with these containers dropped from great heights from a crane. They really are immensely tough and reliable. Good thing too, since the ones I saw tested would contain a slurry of liquid waste, not just boxes of old fuel rods and the like!
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    There seems to be some weird alien language all over that video screen.
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    Image of FThorn FThorn
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    I think it's not a Russian test. The Russian in the caption is the cyrillic phonetic translation of the English "Crash Test". Russians would use native Russian language words.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    03/04/09

    @FThorn: correct it's a British test.
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    Image of mac_kix_windoze mac_kix_windoze
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    Actually you're all wrong. There may be Russian text associated with this video but the test itself is 100% British, my friends. The loco is, I believe a Pacific-class diesel, workhorse of the British railway system for many years. When you see the loco in the side view, the white, double-arrowed logo on the side is the logo of British Rail, until recently the state-owned operator of all train services in the UK.


    This was probably test carried out by BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels Ltd) using a retired BR engine for propaganda purposes in the 80s ie look how safe our spent nuclear fuel is even when hit by a train.

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    Image of Jesus Diaz Jesus Diaz
    03/04/09

    @mac_kix_windoze: Yeah, it is brit.
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    Image of SalParadise SalParadise
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    And the point of this was, what, exactly?
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    03/04/09

    @SalParadise: to prove that the fuel containers are safe to move through populated areas.


    the idea being if you can slam a train into one (a valid concern since the containers would be moved by rail) then you don't need to worry about anything else getting in or out...

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    Image of Weakskills Weakskills
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    PhotoShoped!!!!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    03/04/09

    @Weakskills: Uh, it's a moving picture. So unless you are saying someone photoshopped each frame, please pick a better program.
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    Image of Bystrika Bystrika
    03/04/09

    @Weakskills: Photoshoped!?? if you think so.. then you've been glued to your computer seat for too long.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/04/09

    @Bystrika:


    He was talking about Photo Shope, the latest video-editing software from Adob.

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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    03/04/09

    @McNugget911_GitEmSteveDave: Not to nitpick, but my Photoshop has video timeline editing... they've added a lot of stuff to it. Stop using Photoshop Elements 7! ;)
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    03/04/09

    @ScottRose: Photo Shope rules! I lov it.
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    Image of Jon Schumaker Jon Schumaker
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    instead of blending electronics to see if they hold up, we shall use old Russian trains to test durability!


    "But will it survive a train?"

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    Image of Theophilus P. Wildebeeste Theophilus P. Wildebeeste
    03/04/09

    @Jon Schumaker: Except that it was a Russian train hitting the container, it was a British Rail locomotive.


    The video just came from a Russian website.

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    Image of Jon Schumaker Jon Schumaker
    03/04/09

    @Theophilus P. Wildebeeste:


    I stand corrected.

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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/04/09

    @Jon Schumaker:


    It's over, you can sit down now.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    In Soviet Russia nuclear waste container collides with you...
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    Image of Pixelologist, Esq. Pixelologist, Esq.
    03/04/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: *sigh* Was that really necessary?
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    03/04/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: Sometimes it's best not to take the easy jokes. Don't worry, I still think you're awesome.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/04/09

    @admoseremic: I guess it's time to retire that one now..
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    03/04/09

    @Pixelologist: No, but I did it anyway.
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    Image of GalenAlexis GalenAlexis
    03/04/09

    In reply to This Is What Happens When a Train Hits Nuclear Waste Containers at 100MPH
    ... And the real life scenario is...?
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    Image of suckerpin suckerpin
    03/04/09

    @GalenAlexis: Obviously it's to test for the post apocalyptic wasteland, where massive mutated rhinos wander the plains, running at up to 100mph, crashing into everything that moves.

    We'll need to transport our nuclear waste safely then just as much as we do now.

    The train is simply the closest thing we have right now to simulate a massive nuclear mutated rhino.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/04/09

    @Phenostar:


    That is bullshit and you know it.


    A mutated rhino would be way bigger than that train.

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