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PamW

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12. Why???

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 12:59 PM

Sep 2013

madokie says:
insane that we use the spliting of atoms to boil water.

WHY?? What don't you like about it?

Should we be doing something else with the energy from splitting atoms?

Is it the boiling that you don't like? Do you think we should heat water to less than the boiling point?

Or is it the fact that we are heating WATER that is your beef? Do you have another coolant in mind.

Please don't just parrot the screed from the anti-nuke gurus. Tell us specifically WHY splitting atoms and
using the atoms to boil a working fluid, that working fluid being water in particular; is insane.

What is wrong with it?

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