WTF? I read voraciously but somehow managed to miss this -- we now have home nuclear reactors?? WTF!! Is anyone else just a tad freaked out at the thought of your neighbors having nuclear reactors in their basements?
http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/The_Fabricator/2008/04/10/Frist_Seeks_to_Install_Nuclear_R/First a gate, now a HomeNuke 9000
Former Sen. Bill Frist, who last week won a zoning variance to install a towering 8-foot gate outside his Bowling Avenue mansion, has now filed papers to begin installation of a nuclear reactor in the home’s basement.
The small reactor, part of General Electric’s HomeNuke 9000 series, will produce enough electricity to power the mansion and will allow Frist to sell the excess power to NES for redistribution to other customers, says a Frist spokesman.
“Installing a home nuclear reactor is a very responsible thing to do,” the spokesman continues. “Nuclear energy doesn’t contribute at all to global warming, and, like all of us who were inspired by Al Gore, the senator has been working hard to reduce his carbon footprint.”
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Frist hasn't changed one iota:
“I don’t know much about these things, but Frist said in a letter that he saw a video of one and that, since he’s a doctor, he could tell that it was safe,” one board member says.
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Yep, and he could override Terri Schiavo's physicians by watching a videotape and declare she wasn't in a persistent vegetative state. Assholes, both Frist and the person who made the above idiotic statement.
HomeNuke9000....I may have heard everything now.