The one and only Homocon blogs about how U.S. dependence on dirty fossil fuels over clean nuclear power is very apparent after the recent hurricane.
I was shocked when his blog mentions the town of Galena, AK was given a Toshiba 4S nuclear powered “micro-reactor” to h–
Whoa, Toshiba? Toshiba builds nuclear reactors? Yeah, and have been doing it even after we dropped two A-bombs on them and Godzilla flattened Tokyo.
Better yet, it sounds like Toshiba has shrunk a big ol’ nuclear reactor down to “micro-reactor” size!
I looked for the Toshiba 4S micro-reactor today at Best Buy but came up empty. None of the salesmen on the floor were able to find any in the back room either. Eventually the sales manager got involved, but we just couldn’t find one. “It’s probably selling at a price point similar to those 60″ plasma screen TVs,” I said. “Can you look it up in the store’s computer? Maybe one of your other stores across town has one.”
“I haven’t heard any other stores talking about it,” the sales manager said. “Maybe we’re sold out because of the Labor Day sales?”
Well, that was a better theory than the lefty idiots at Amazon.com had: Their online sales rep blamed my inability to find a Toshiba 4S micro-reactor on their site because of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s connections to big oil…
Amazon.com is in Seattle, for cryin’ out loud. What do you expect?
What about nuclear reactors in U.S. Navy ships? Those are relatively small and IMAO has readers that know how to use them.
And I’ll use ’em too! Anyone want to hire a used reactor operator?
IMAO has already got one. If I’m not mistaken, that was Harvey’s job in the Navy on the Enterprise.
There are different sizes of reactors. There are small research ones (like the one at UF). There are large ones that power cities. The one I worked at produced about 1000 MW/hr (I think I have the units right – I’m civil, not electrical). Then there are the ship sized ones. Of course, the ship sized ones don’t have as much protection and backups (you get lots of shielding from the ocean when the ship sinks to the bottom). There are some new types (ie pebble reactor) that are supposed to be virtually impossible to melt down. At least as long as you don’t play with it (ie Cherynoble). They’re a great alternative to oil/coal and are reasonably safe. They’re also cleaner. Nuke (power) the earth!
NO PODCAST STRIKE. BRING IN THE SCABS!
Seriously, I want one. Where do I buy one and how much? No more paying Sempra, the thieving fools.
I only wanna buy one if it’s a breeder reactor. I need bomb-quality materials for my own evil schemes for world domination….
GEBIV’s right. I used to climb all over those things like a monkey when I was in the Navy.
Which may or may not explain why I’m childless…
Yeah, but I thought you were kidding about working in the nuclear reactor because you made a joke about Jimmy Carter…
Hey Harvey, I had one so it can’t be that bad. There is the problem of him glowing in the dark, though…