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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Underground Mini Nuclear Reactors to Power Homes Within 5 Years?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sounds good to me.  A little radiation buried 200 feet underground probably wouldn't hurt any one.  I pay $600 a month, so $413 a year is great!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[D-Nice]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 10th 2008 2:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Underground Mini Nuclear Reactors to Power Homes Within 5 Years?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[jesus h christ..are you running some of googles servers in your house or something? 600 a month? please tell me you have a home w/ 15+ bedrooms/a family of more than 10...because i simply dont understand how you can run up a $600 bill, unless you live outside the us somewhere. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SimbaDogg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 11th 2008 2:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Underground Mini Nuclear Reactors to Power Homes Within 5 Years?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Lets actually hope they DO NOT quickly push this out. It would literally be a disaster if they issued a recall ;)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[wako]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 11th 2008 1:51AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Underground Mini Nuclear Reactors to Power Homes Within 5 Years?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[this is all fine and dandy....but power suppliers will not pass along the savings to the consumer....you will pay the same amount for your power and the company will pocket the savings as profits...except for me...I am a member of an energy co-op]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Darin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 11th 2008 4:59AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Underground Mini Nuclear Reactors to Power Homes Within 5 Years?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[I would rather see solar hydrogen production]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MyKisa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 11th 2008 6:47AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Underground Mini Nuclear Reactors to Power Homes Within 5 Years?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Nice idea but who gets to pay for the periodic refueling, spent fuel storage, waste management, etc.? Who gets the liability for the containment failure risks. Who gets the pleasure of protecting the burial site, transporters from terrorists? Who needs a nuclear reactor in their neighborhood? Who pays for the steam turbine operation and maintenance? Who gets the responsibility for the condensing steam cycle thermal polution? Is the reactor coolant sodium?  Why is this a cost effective solution to power generation in larger communities? <br>This is being marketed by a venture capital corporate group. Is it really advisable to put our trust in a group that could pull out and leave the local owners to deal with the abandoned equipment? We can't even rely on large utilities to responsibly operate their nuclear facilities now, and we want this? Bull !!!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chernobleman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 11th 2008 7:35AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Underground Mini Nuclear Reactors to Power Homes Within 5 Years?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[Now we are talking. I predicted just yesterday that all the insulation and  weatherizing and caulking and stuff we are doing to make energy use more efficient, will all become a moot point when energy becomes ultra cheap, AND ecosafe. then we will all be tearing down our walls and windows and living in nuclear powered teepees and igloos. this is just a phase to get us to the next phase. the earth doesnt stand still and change is the only constant except for no change or changing change. what was will be gone but then come back and then leave again in different incarnations. what we do will become a crisis to be solved. with mini nukes, the temptation will be to waste so much energy that global warming will be caused by the sheer temperature increase and not co2 emissions from cleanly heating an open home. everyone will have that 1000 horsepower vehicle that gets 500 miles per gallon. that will cause  a wave of new safety developments that will get more and more restrictive until some kind of teleportation device gets invented that ships us all to maui in winter and to alaska in summer. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mitch]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 11th 2008 11:57AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Underground Mini Nuclear Reactors to Power Homes Within 5 Years?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is all well and good, but, as many have indicated, there is the threat of leakage, quakes, recalls, erosion, etc.  The better solution is research on these over unity generators that supposedly are installed into homes and generate enough power to repay the energy used from the electric company and sells back $4 of energy for every dollar consumed.  Now that's a solution.  An inventor in Australia is supposed to be close to marketing a commercially saleable unit for $5000 USD.  This would be a worthwhile investment and would force electric companies to operate at more efficient levels to maintain profitability.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Davis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 12th 2008 10:04AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Underground Mini Nuclear Reactors to Power Homes Within 5 Years?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.medio-ambiente.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=264" rel="nofollow">http://www.medio-ambiente.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=264</a> <br><br>Read carefully: <br><br>Thus, in July last year was published in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine an epidemiological study conducted by scientists from <br><br>the University of Alcala de Henares and Guadalajara's Hospital in which he concludes that the risk of cancer increases linearly with proximity <br><br>to the nuclear power Trillo and that the risk of having a tumor is 1.71 times higher in the environment closest to the nuclear power plant <br><br>(within a radius of 10 kms. around it) than in the area enclosed within a radius 30 kms. <br><br>In July 2001 was published in Environmental Health Perspectives a study by the Cancer Epidemiology Unit of the National Center for Epidemiology <br><br>Carlos III Health Institute that concluded that there was an increased mortality from leukemia in the vicinity of the facilities of nuclear fuel <br><br>. <br><br>Two years earlier, in 1999, the Carlos III Health Institute concluded that there was an incidence of multiple myeloma higher than normal in the <br><br>vicinity of the Zorita nuclear power station in Guadalajara. This study was published in the October issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, <br><br>Biomarkers & Prevention. In this same area, and in 1987 the National Health Institute concluded that the rate of deaths from tumors of the <br><br>digestive tract was between 3 and 4 times higher than the average of the Spanish State. <br><br>In addition to these conclusive data, the studies of 1999 and 2001 from the Carlos III Health Institute also detected the existence of a fee <br>Unexpectedly high of stomach cancer in people of both sexes in the area surrounding the nuclear plant Garoña. This increase, linked to the <br><br>proximity to this facility, occurred in the period after the start of activity of the nuclear plant, after comparing with the situation prior to <br><br>its entry into operation. <br><br>Also, it was found that mortality from lung cancer showed a greater increase in the areas in the vicinity of 30 kms around the central Garoña, <br><br>Zorita and Vandellos-I compared with national trends. The same situation occurred with respect to kidney cancer in La Haba, an area of uranium <br><br>mining. <br><br>According to these studies, Garoña is the environment in which nuclear power has found a higher rate of mortality from leukemia in the <br><br>population from 0 to 24 years, in a ratio higher than in the control populations beyond that radius. In the environment of other nuclear plants <br><br>and facilities for uranium mining has been detected excess mortality from various types of cancer.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cancer = Nuclear]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 26th 2008 7:30AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Underground Mini Nuclear Reactors to Power Homes Within 5 Years?]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/11/10/mini-nuclear-reactors-for-sale-within-five-years/</guid><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.medio-ambiente.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=264" rel="nofollow">http://www.medio-ambiente.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=264</a> <br><br>Read carefully: <br><br>Thus, in July last year was published in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine an epidemiological study conducted by scientists from <br><br>the University of Alcala de Henares and Guadalajara's Hospital in which he concludes that the risk of cancer increases linearly with proximity <br><br>to the nuclear power Trillo and that the risk of having a tumor is 1.71 times higher in the environment closest to the nuclear power plant <br><br>(within a radius of 10 kms. around it) than in the area enclosed within a radius 30 kms. <br><br>In July 2001 was published in Environmental Health Perspectives a study by the Cancer Epidemiology Unit of the National Center for Epidemiology <br><br>Carlos III Health Institute that concluded that there was an increased mortality from leukemia in the vicinity of the facilities of nuclear fuel <br><br>. <br><br>Two years earlier, in 1999, the Carlos III Health Institute concluded that there was an incidence of multiple myeloma higher than normal in the <br><br>vicinity of the Zorita nuclear power station in Guadalajara. This study was published in the October issue of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, <br><br>Biomarkers & Prevention. In this same area, and in 1987 the National Health Institute concluded that the rate of deaths from tumors of the <br><br>digestive tract was between 3 and 4 times higher than the average of the Spanish State. <br><br>In addition to these conclusive data, the studies of 1999 and 2001 from the Carlos III Health Institute also detected the existence of a fee <br>Unexpectedly high of stomach cancer in people of both sexes in the area surrounding the nuclear plant Garoña. This increase, linked to the <br><br>proximity to this facility, occurred in the period after the start of activity of the nuclear plant, after comparing with the situation prior to <br><br>its entry into operation. <br><br>Also, it was found that mortality from lung cancer showed a greater increase in the areas in the vicinity of 30 kms around the central Garoña, <br><br>Zorita and Vandellos-I compared with national trends. The same situation occurred with respect to kidney cancer in La Haba, an area of uranium <br><br>mining. <br><br>According to these studies, Garoña is the environment in which nuclear power has found a higher rate of mortality from leukemia in the <br><br>population from 0 to 24 years, in a ratio higher than in the control populations beyond that radius. In the environment of other nuclear plants <br><br>and facilities for uranium mining has been detected excess mortality from various types of cancer.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cancer = Nuclear]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 26th 2008 7:31AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
