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Originally Posted by Xringer
I'm wondering how small these things could be made.?. Could the be used on Navy ships etc? Space stations?
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This does look like a pretty cute idea. If the whole setup would only decay into plant food in a few years, we'd really have a solution.
The USSR actually had a large number of very small nuke power sources that they used to provide power to very remote coastal markers, channel markers, etc.
The power units worked pretty well, however still requiring periodic maintenance.
When the USSR collapsed, the money just wasn't there for maintenance (or anything else), and the units just kept working...
...at least some of them just kept working... the ones that weren't stolen for their uranium (it is said that dirty bombs are easy to make), or failed due to containment shells cracking, sending hot nuclear waste out into the surrounding land, air and water.
Just imagine the BP spill, if it had been nuclear.
Now imagine many thousands of nuclear spills.
Our government, thanks to our brave military, has made a nuclear wasteland out of Iraq (the cradle of civilization), thanks to the many hundred tons of Depleted Uranium we spread around there.
* * Half-Life = 4.5 billion years * *
Have you bothered to check out the rise in the birth defect rate in Iraq since we brought them democracy and depleted uranium? I'll make it easy for you...
CLICK HERE and read.
How safe is your life savings in the hands of our government? (If there is any problem with Social Security, it is that our government could not resist the temptation to spend our money on their wars.)
How safe is the environment in the hands of the government, dealing with a problem that could last many,
many thousands of years?
Think about it... really, think about it.