Paul Genoa is a moron

7 Responses to Paul Genoa is a moron

1. R says:

   March 1, 2011 at 10:19 pm

   Traveling Wave Reactors do sound cool, but a better bet would be thorium reactors. Of course, there is no good reason I know of not to have some of both…

   As to you comment on regulation, I’d put it somewhere between joke and gold standard, but I’m not sure where; it depends on the day and news story, I guess 🙂
2. Mollbot says:

   March 2, 2011 at 12:17 am

   I’d like to see more of that pebble-bed reactor design that MIT and some South African university worked up…
3. Rivrdog says:

   March 2, 2011 at 7:20 am

   The NRC has been a joke ever since it got changed from the Atomic Energy Commission, and THAT org was a joke after it’s last good leader, Dixie Lee Ray, who, together with my dad, wrote common-sense safety regulations (based on US Navy nuclear reactor doctrine, which my dad also wrote). ancient history.
4. PromptCritical says:

   March 2, 2011 at 8:47 am

   Engineering student and Rickover disciple here.

   I attended a presentation a couple weeks ago from the president a NuScale, a company here in Corvallis developing a modular light water reactor design. Looks promising and closer to market than this.

   What we need to do is get rid of the NIMBY problem associated with Yucca Mountain, and remove Jimmy Carter’s ban on recycling spent fuel. If we do that, we can possibly run safe, reliable nuclear for decades.
5. Rivrdog says:

   March 2, 2011 at 6:08 pm

   My dad worked directly for ADM Rickover. He was the CNO, my dad was on the Nautilus design team, in charge of radiation safety. What he did there resulted in the Nuclear Navy, the largest, safest user of moveable nuclear reactors on the planet. After the Navy, he worked with Dixie Lee Ray to implement the Navy safety program nation-wide, and was hired by his native Oregon to write the rules for Oregon after the AEC released rulemaking authority to the States. He was given 5 years to do that job, but completed it in 1 1/2.
6. Jim says:

   March 2, 2011 at 7:21 pm

   I’m the proud son of a Rickover acolyte, from the early ’60s, Idaho Falls nuke power school.

   Although he didn’t go on to help author such distinguished programs as the safety protocols under Mr. Ray, he did embark on no less than seven WestPac cruises, all of which remain undiscussable to this day.

   I learned an awful lot about nuclear potential from him, the astonishingly strict safety protocls he worked under and the pride that he and his shipmates took in doing their jobs, and doing them very, very well indeed.

   No one, ever, has had to indoctrinate me to despise the leftist, anti-nuclear tree hugging scum. I naturally regard them as the slime that they are, merely by contrasting them to the achivements of the true hereos I’ve had the honor, and distinct pleasure, to have known.

   Our Nuclear Navy is the closest we have to the age of iron ships and iron men. They were, and are, giants.

   Let them run our nation’s nukes, and we’ll be damn near instantly rewarded with clean, safe and abundant power.

   Jim
   Sunk New Dawn
   Galveston, TX
7. Rivrdog says:

   March 3, 2011 at 7:31 pm

   Cap’n Jim, most of our nuke power plants already have a goodly proportion of Nuke Navy types at their control boards. Mostly because that’s the only place you can hire experienced reactor operators from and still have them be US citizens, which USED to be a requirement, dono if it still is or not.

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