What are you talking about? 'A bit of extra life'? You do realize that well over 90% of nuclear 'waste' is Uranium-238, right?

Even if it is only 60F, it's takes significantly less energy to heat water from 60F than from 32F!

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Holy supporting research Batman! http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-solar-panels-cool.html

ABOMINATION

You pretty much hit it on the nose.

Not only would a brain simulator have to simulate neurons, but also synapses, neurotransmitters, neurotransmitter receptor types, glial cell types (e.g. astrocyte computation), mRNA expression and probably about a library of congress worth of stuff we don't even know about yet.

That's essentially true, but this beats out solar and wind on the grounds of power density. For nations with not a lot of land area available to devote to energy farming, these will come out on top. Just one of these reactors will likely put out 1-2 Gigawatts. Sustained. That's hundreds of acres equivalent for solar or wind, during ideal conditions only.

This won't get anywhere near simulating a brain.

How is there not a single post on the actual nuclear technology he is researching and advocating for! C'mon nerds!

Traveling wave reactors (google them) are projected to run without refueling for 60 years on what is 'waste' now and then become the storage facility for the next ~500 years until it fades into background rad. Oh, and they're made to be put in the ground like missile silos. Think of them as nuclear candles. Without having to refuel by hand and taking people out of the equation as much as possible the chances for error get reduced significantly. They also have large negative energy coefficients so a loss of coolant does not lead to a meltdown.

After researching as much as possible into TWRs I'd say the current stage of developement is trying to get the exact alloy of uranium, burnable poisons (look these up too, they're sweet), etc just right to create a long lived sustained reaction. I'd imagine that such work is really heavy on the super computer time.

I hope that these researchers have access to lots of money and super computer time. If only there was some tech billionaire funding them...

Beat me to it! MMOs always gave off the addictive drug stink to me, this just proves it further.

"Other nations of europe, please get rid of your nuclear power..and buy from us!"

"Fuel is finite"

True, but misleading. Traveling wave reactors extend our fissile material by 1000s of years.

I would not call nuclear power a dead horse. Boiling water and light water reactors, sure.

High tech nuclear power is the only source of power we have to be able to deploy exponential electricity rapidly. Why would we need that? For the robot welfare state!

~Scott

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