Samurai-Sword Maker May Cool Nuclear Revival 317
NobleSavage sends a story from Bloomberg about Japan Steel Works Ltd., a company that still makes Samurai swords, and how it may control the fate of the global nuclear-energy renaissance. "There stands the only plant in the world, a survivor of Allied bombing in World War II, capable of producing the central part of a nuclear reactor's containment vessel in a single piece, reducing the risk of a radiation leak. Utilities that won't need the equipment for years are making $100 million down payments now on components Japan Steel makes from 600-ton ingots. Each year the Tokyo-based company can turn out just four of the steel forgings that contain the radioactivity in a nuclear reactor. Even after it doubles capacity in the next two years, there won't be enough production to meet building plans."
Hm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hm (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe depleted uranium.
That's nothing (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Japan, WWII, allied bombing, and nukes (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:0, Funny)
Re:May be a stupid question... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Hm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Candu (Score:4, Funny)
Re:4 per year (Score:5, Funny)
>any time in my life. QC does not seem to be their strong point.
On the plus side, it is very likely to come coated in lead.
That's good in this case, right?
But (Score:2, Funny)
Re:sounds like a way to re-start (Score:3, Funny)
(Though a bit late for a Holocaust cloak, one would think, and perhaps the component is a little large for a wheelbarrow)
Nice, but how does it compare (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hm (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, so let China produce them (Score:2, Funny)
they're not building the containment vessels (Score:3, Funny)
maybe the japanese are trying to NUKE THE WHALES?
first fake scientific research, now this?
will the japanese stop at nothing to satisfy their insatiable whale flesh thirst?
Re:Nice, but how does it compare (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hm (Score:3, Funny)
But if you have 4 arms, then you'll have twice as much strength to heft the sword, so you will get tired at an equal rate as if the sword was a normal weight with only two arms. So by making you sprout those extra arms, the sword solves its own problems!
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Re:Hm (Score:3, Funny)
Depends on the velocity... (Score:3, Funny)