Nuclear Opponents Make Viral Video Opposing Toshiba 4S Project in Alaska

AFP: Toshiba Corp. is developing an ultra-compact reactor with an output of about 10,000 kilowatts and has started procedures for approval in the United States, the Nikkei business daily said. The new reactor, the Toshiba 4S, is designed to minimise the need for monitoring and maintenance, with an automatic shutdown function to ensure safety in case of problems, the newspaper said.
October 24, 2009 at 11:46 am - River Reactions
Dateline: Galena, AK
dontflagmebro   October 24th, 2009 - 2:28 pm

Well China is building like 100+ nuke plants. If we don’t ramp up quicly we will fall into 3rd world abyss. Larouche triple Curve is right. Without more power and aqriculture + ranch production. We are doomed to fail.

doogle   October 24th, 2009 - 5:13 pm

Uhm, the light bulb was experimental at one time too. Thank goodness that didn’t catch on.

Paul Oberlander   October 24th, 2009 - 5:58 pm

This woman is an idiot. Light-metal-cooled reactors have been around since the 50s. The technology is robust and not experimental. A few early test reactors had problems, but the same can be said of airplanes. Watch the old footage of airplane tests from before the Wright brothers.

These Luddites would rather we go back to rocks and sticks.

goodrichard   October 24th, 2009 - 8:48 pm

How much does one of these babies cost? I’d like to have one in my garage.

H2K   October 25th, 2009 - 12:30 pm

Oh, I have a good idea. Let’s test a windmill up in Alaska. I have another good idea, let’s continue to not teach hard science and mathematics to our children so that they won’t have the skills to design such a reactor. We’ll have to go to Japan to get the technology.
Thank you liberals! Thank you teachers unions!

Ryder   October 25th, 2009 - 7:03 pm

ha…. an inconvenient solution.

No, let’s stay addicted to fossil fuels… foreign oil, and put generations in harms way to fund and fight oil wars.

F*cking liberals.

Chad   October 26th, 2009 - 3:31 am

These same idiots are also probably out protesting “global warming” and are against drilling in AK also. And the odds are thay are against wind because it kills birds.

Bottom line, they want the entire world to live like they do in Gallena, scratching out a living with no power at all.

Raoul Bloodworth   October 26th, 2009 - 9:55 am

The woman who is speaking is an uninformed Luddite. The S1G and S2G reactors were Sodium cooled designed for the USS Seawolf (SSN 575). The Russians have used Sodium cooled reactors in their submarines. There have been problems, but to assert that this is an “untested” technology, or that there is no body of knowledge about this technology is just plain lying.

CARSON 44   October 27th, 2009 - 2:00 am

The Toshiba Corp. went to Alaska because they have some of the toughest envrio laws on the planet. Their thinking was akin to:New York, New York”. If we can make it here we can make it anywhere.I’m sure they hadn’t counted on presenting their case and having it decieded by some of the most backward people on earth. This reactor is 80 feet below ground, is self contained and discharges nothing.The plan is to give it to them free of charge, reducing their power cost to nothing.They are now running the plant on oil and each consumers bill is unsustainable.
If you had to count on one group of people to produce a nuclear power plant and count on it being safe, could you find any more careful than the Japanese.

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