| This week’s winner of the JT
"You couldn’t make it up" award goes to the news this week that the ageing
accident-waiting-to-happen Hunterston reactor could be replaced with a kit-build. Apparently,
those nice people at Westinghouse in the US have designed a pre-fabricated nuclear reactor
that could be in place within three years, although the number of flat-packs involved has
yet to be specified.
A spokesisotope for the domestic perfectly safe
fissionable material industry explains: "It would be much cheaper and quicker to buy
in a reactor in boxes and assemble it on site. Notice, by the way, I didn’t mention
the word 'safer', that’s not a term we like to use in relation to the nuclear
industry." |
Long term model builders will
recall that after putting together an Airfix Spitfire Mark 12, there were always bits left
over in the box, a minor irritation but one unlikely to lead to whole swathes of Ayrshire
enjoying the benefits of irradiation. In any case, this latest development in DIY
fission is likely to lead to competition with IKEA to offer "Fockt" - a very
attractive self-build 100KW station finished in stripped pine complete with a twenty-five
metre long Allen key. |
