Heat Wave Shuts Down Alabama Reactor 401
mdsolar writes "In a first for the US, one of three nuclear reactors at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama has been shut down because the Tennessee River is too hot to provide adequate cooling for the waste heat produced by the reactor. This is happening as the TVA faces its highest demand for power ever, reports the Houston Chronicle. This effect has been seen in Europe in the past, forcing reduced generation, but the US has until now been immune to the problem. The TVA will buy power elsewhere and impose higher rates, blaming reduced river flow as a result of drought."
This is actually really good news (Score:2, Funny)
In Soviet Russia (Score:5, Funny)
River too hot? (Score:5, Funny)
(I'd patent the idea, but the patent office has a silly rule regarding perpetual motion machines that gets in the way...)
Re:Hm... (Score:2, Funny)
It would give a whole new meaning to Louisiana Hot Sauce...
Re:This is actually really good news (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What "waste heat"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Waste heat? (Score:1, Funny)
Seriously, you're talking out of your ass. Shut the fuck and go write a poem or something.
Re:Waste heat? (Score:2, Funny)
Damn... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:paddle wheels in the heat stream (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Simple solution (Score:2, Funny)
Can we assume you've already done this on a personal level? And have ventured out of mommy's basement?
Re:In Soviet Russia (Score:5, Funny)
There's not really much worry about people think the jokes are about Tsarist Russia is there?
(After writing this bit, it bacame clear to me that subconciously, I envision 1st Dude to be Brian Griffin, and 2nd Dude to be Stewie.)
1st Dude: "In Russia overheating reactor shuts down YOU."
2nd Dude: "Oh yea, thats funny, I get it, cos like, they just used uranium for yellow pottery glave back in Tsarist times right? Thats funny. No wait, Don't get that, that makes no sense"
1st Dude: "No, like I mean the Soviet era, like Chernobyl blowing up"
2nd Dude: "oh right, like why didn't you say"
1nd Dude: "I dunno, I figured it was obvious"
2nd Dude: "wasn't umm wasn't Chernobyl in the Ukraine"
1st Dude: "What am I like, a geography teacher now?"
2nd Dude: "that's like pretty poor taste man, a lot of people died"
2nd Dude: "That's not really funny at all"
1st Dude: "In Soviet Russia, taste poors YOU! heh heh"
2nd Dude: "that one wasn't even a sentence"
Re:not immune (Score:4, Funny)
Re:not immune (Score:4, Funny)