From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FORGED_REPLYTO,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bedb0d6478721e2d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-09 03:12:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!62.154.176.138!not-for-mail From: Steffen Huber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: stupid question Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:09:57 +0200 Organization: private Message-ID: <3F8533F5.62B968A7@huber-net.de> References: <3F848D37.1070808@comcast.net> Reply-To: steffen.huber@gmx.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.154.176.138 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1065694330 18873563 62.154.176.138 (16 [82308]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:526 Date: 2003-10-09T12:09:57+02:00 List-Id: "Robert I. Eachus" wrote: [snip] > Liquid metal fast breeder reactors (LMFBRs) on the other hand may have > response times to control inputs in seconds. And with a positive void > coefficient if you lose control, that's it. Right now, the French are > the only ones I know of who have LMFBRs. Germany has one, too ("Schneller Brueter" in Kalkar), but it was only built and ready-to-go - the real "go" never came and not a single kWh was ever produced. It is now a leisure park called "Kernwasser Wunderland" (something like Nuclear-Water-Wonderland perhaps ;-)). Including free-climbing on the cooling tower... IIRC, the French also closed down their "Superphenix" LMFBR. [snip] Steffen -- steffen.huber@gmx.de steffen@huber-net.de GCC for RISC OS - http://www.arcsite.de/hp/gcc/ Private homepage - http://www.huber-net.de/