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This has been posted here before, about two years ago -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569564 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569564 -- but (1) it's v
by gjm11 16y ago
This has been posted here before, about two years ago -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569564 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569564 -- but (1) it's very good and (2) the old URL no longer works.
It's by Charlie Stross, a science fiction author and former hacker. It describes a lengthy tour of the nuclear reactor complex at Torness in Scotland.
- ScotterC 16y agoNot to mention that it's an AGR (Advanced Gas cooled Reactor) something that doesn't exist in the U.S. or most of the world. Very cool.
- lkiujhygjk 16y agoVery clever design, much more efficent, much safer - negative temp coeff and no chance of a steam explosion. But they never reached the critical mass (sorry) to make them standard and so cheap to build and operate.
- burgerbrain 16y agoHe also posts on HN as 'cstross'.