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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham 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: 2003-10-10 09:02:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!rwcrnsc53.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F86D7EF.4040006@comcast.net> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: stupid question References: <3F848D37.1070808@comcast.net> <3F8533F5.62B968A7@huber-net.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc53 1065801742 24.34.139.183 (Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:02:22 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:02:22 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:02:22 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:612 Date: 2003-10-10T16:02:22+00:00 List-Id: Steffen Huber wrote: > 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. If it is being used as a park, I hope that the sodium metal was never loaded. The nuclear fuel, if never used is very inert, but sodium metal by the tonne is not something to have in a recreational setting. Personally I don't want it anywhere other than in the middle of an extremely dry desert. Sodium metal plus water either reacts quietly, burns, or explodes. Get enough in one place and you get lots of explosions. Oh, and of course, the lye (NaOH) produced dissolves skin. -- Robert I. Eachus "Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair of an old motorcycle." -- from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig