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OSU lands grant to test nuclear reactors

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:31 AM PST

By The Associated Press

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CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State University researchers have gotten a five-year, $6 million grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to test and study new designs for nuclear reactors.

The Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics is researching a type of reactor that operates at temperatures exceeding 2,000 degrees and uses gas instead of water for cooling.

Although the new reactors are three times as hot as existing ones, they are also 35 to 50 percent more energy-efficient, cost less to construct and create 50 percent less nuclear waste.

OSU will build a one-quarter-scale reactor as part of its research to test the new reactor designs at a cost of $3.6 million.

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TeenCitizen wrote on Feb 3, 2009 1:12 PM:

" Best of luck with the testing! at least this can't create a black hole "

Thought wrote on Feb 3, 2009 3:11 PM:

" Why construct anything that the byproducts you cannot safely get rid of??? Sometimes cheap is not so cheap!!! "

TDN Bad Boy wrote on Feb 3, 2009 3:34 PM:

" Well I thought Liberals wanted to do everything like the Liberals in Europe? Those countries are so far ahead of nuclear technology and development that it isn't funny. But hey if the Liberals want to burn down all the rain forrests and jungles or use land to grow fuel instead of fuel. That's what is happening with bio-fuels development in the U.S. and around the world at the present. Maybe if run out of land to grow food, then maybe nuclear energy won't be such a bad idea. And if we are to believe Al Snore about global warming than we had better develop every kind of clean fuel possible so that countries like China and the U.S. stop emitting those deadly gasses that we can't get Snore to breathe. "

columbian wrote on Feb 3, 2009 5:30 PM:

" TDN BB: IF IF IF IF .MAYBE YOU NEED TO MOVE TO EUROPE, ILL PAY FOR THE MOVE.HOW MANY NUCLEAR PLANTS DID YOUR BUDDY GEO.BUSH HAVE BUILT?YA WHAT A JOKE TROJAN WAS.RATE PAYERS WILL BE PAYING FOR IT THE NEXT 40 YEARS.SURE BUILD 60 OF THEM. "

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