Read the thread. It's been established several times - mean sea level is the standard unit of measurement for level used by the plants, the NRC, and the Army Corps of Engineers. It's purpose is to supply an easily understandable common ground for technical use of the information. This doesn't mean just water level - internal floors in the plants are also designated by height above sea level.

Just because it's not his particular niche, that doesn't make him wrong. I see a lot of low priced indie games available on Steam and if they're even vaguely interesting I'm much more likely to pick one of them up for $10-20 than if they were $50-60. If I'm going to pick up a game for the higher price it had better be damn good. Speaking of which, Steam is an excellent method of content delivery for bargain bin type games. Easy access and low overhead.

I will however grant that there is a difference between the Liquid Sodium experiment, using Sodium as a coolant only, and the Molten Salt Reactor concept (which sadly does not use sodium salts) wherein Molten salts are used as coolant with the fuel dissolved in it. You kinda lose the humour that way though.

I'm well aware of the difference between Sodium Chloride and elemental Sodium, thank you. While Sodium is indeed a metal, it is also one of the common salt-forming cations and thus may be considered a salt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(chemistry)

Sodium reacts with water energetically, not air. In air it tends to produce a protective oxide layer. Sodium cooling in shutdown is actually kinda useful since it automatically limits the extent of a Loss of Coolant Accident (LoCA).

Liquid Sodium IS a molten salt...?

On the other hand, car heaters work very well using the waste heat from the engine.

If the plutonium were coming out of a smoke stack, I'd agree with you on the danger. But it's not. It's either going right back into the reactor to be split for energy or sent into a pool for long term storage. If you somehow manage to get it into your body, I'll have to quote the meme and tell you, you're doing it wrong.

With a breeder reactor, anything with a short enough half-life to be dangerous from irradiation (as opposed to simply heavy metal poisoning) is going to be reused in the reactor, not sent into storage. Unfortunately, any thoughts of the reuse of nuclear fuel was stopped back in the 70s. Thank you so very much, Ford and Carter.

Unquestioningly. Especially if the alternative is coal. The only thing leaving the nuc plant is steam, where as there's tons of crap coming out of the smokestacks fo the coal plant. Also, you could easily design a system so the waste heat from the secondary side of a nuc plant could be used to provide heat to nearby homes, which could up efficiency and lower costs on both sides.

You could just make the method of execution the operation that harvests the useful organs for transplant. No worries about contaminated organs and I guess you could call it humane - they get anaesthetized and just never wake up. Not my idea - Larry Niven thought of it first (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organlegging)

Does it also go over water?

I apologise; I did not mean to imply that our site safety is dependent solely on offsite power. Under normal operating conditions, they use offsite power. In the event of a LOSP, we have two separate emergency diesel generators with enough fuel for a week stored onsite. If THOSE fail, we have back-up batteries capable of supplying power for up to 24 hours. After that, we're pissing in the steam generators.