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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: power shortages
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 14:51:58 +1100
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On 9/03/2024 7:06 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:56:48 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-03-08 16:01, John Larkin wrote:
>>> On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:40:26 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:22:29 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 3/8/24 07:40, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>>>> On a sunny day (Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:13:56 -0800) it happened John Larkin
>>>>>> <jl@997PotHill.com> wrote in <h8mjui5kf50de3tkplpf1e12k12r8dgl58@4ax.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/amid-explosive-demand-america-is-running-out-of-power/ar-BB1jtM69
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Increasing demand and declining reliable supply could put people in
>>>>>>> the dark.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yesterday I was reading Netherlands gov has decided to build 4 new nuclear power plants.
>>>>>> They still have to find locations for 3, what if next doors?? ??
>>>>>
>>>>> These are planned to be the --now old-fashioned-- Westinghouse
>>>>> design? Big installations that need ten years to build?
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to start an industry of
>>>>> small modular reactors. Tens of megawatts rather than hundreds,
>>>>> Something that could fit on a barge, or a train, transported
>>>>> where it's needed, and up and running in months rather than
>>>>> years.
>>>>
>>>> Already in development!
>>>>
>>>> https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/
>>>
>>> It's really not a technical problem. The public has an irrational fear
>>> of radiation.
>>
>> Gosh, it is a very rational fear.
> 
> Stay away from mountains and airplanes and your own cellar. Don't ever
> eat bananas or potatoes.

Nuclear waste is a lot more radioactive than bananas and potatoes.
If you've got radon in your cellar, you should put a fan to move it out.

https://www.epa.gov/radon/health-risk-radon

Smoking causes about 160,000 lung cancer deaths a year in the US. but 
radon cause about 21,000 - it's worth worrying about.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney