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    Default Home nuclear reactor.

    From Toshiba. You gotta love the Japanese sometimes. This is either a good energy source during ans emergency/disaster, or another emergency/disaster waiting to happen.
    http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...ar-12.17b.html

    I guess it comes out next year in the US.


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    "Thank you for calling Toshiba customer support. This call may be monitored. My name is Sammy. How can I help you?"
    "Uh, yea. I'm installing your micro nuclear reactor."
    "Oh, yes. That's brand new. I'll be glad to help you with that."
    "Uh, okay. I turned the reactor on before I closed the lead shield and now I've got this dead skin on my face."
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    LMAO. I foresee that becoming common occurrence. Japan gets them this year, let's see what happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kemperor View Post
    LMAO. I foresee that becoming common occurrence. Japan gets them this year, let's see what happens.

    You would think they would have learned from Nagasaki



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    Actually, you would think that the world would've learned from Nagasaki.

    http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.j...wa/yosida.html

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    It's BadCat, right?
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    Actually, nuclear reactors work on fission (or fusion, but it's the one they don't use for the atom bombs) so the plants that explode only explode by a buildup of pressure. However, they are still radioactive. So yeah, no need to worry about explosions as long as there isn't overheating.
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    Reactors are fission. A nuclear weapon can be either fission or fusion depending on whether you want to split the nucleus of an atom (fission) or bring two smaller atoms together to form a larger atom (fusion). I'll be demonstrating the fission process later this evening...hold on....someone turn that alarm off...sorry. I'm back. Bzzzzzzzzzzzp.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rick View Post
    It's BadCat, right?



    That one went over my head Rick





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    Japanese would have learned from Nagasaki......Bad Cat.
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    Pssst Rick, the dudes name in BatCat.

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    Not talking like that. See, it was a play on his name BatCat BadCat. Get it? He said the thingy about Nagasaki and I said Bad Cat making a near irony on his name. Now I have to go lay down. I'm worn out.

    Ya'll got to keep up. I move fast for an old man.
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    Movin' fast? What is there a herd of Twinkies in the area looking for the guy behind the massacre?

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    So, They want to sell us mini nuculer reactors to everyone, I can see this getting into the wrong hands somehow
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    Ya'll can laugh if you want but fear me!!

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    You know... depending on price... I could see buying one of those. It would be the ultimate SHTF power backup.

    The power goes out, infrastructure fails. Your neighbors are curious.

    "Hey Chris, how come your lights are still on?"

    "Well, we have a nuclear reactor in our basement."

    But really... if I had millions and millions of dollars I'd probably build myself a little bunker in the mountains, and maybe then get one of these. Might be nuclear winter on the surface, but down below you're microwaving hotpockets.

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    You do know that that is a hoax, right? Try finding anything about it on the Toshiba website, and if you email them they will reply telling you it isn't true.
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    And microwaving yourself too, nothing is fale safe or fool proof and only works as well as you maintain it. In my young opinion. Its not a hoax we read about it in Science Lab and one kid did a report on it. But its not actually for a single home its for a small town, business park or industrial park, or a big plant such as GE.
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    Chris - you just survived Armageddon and you're killing yourself with hot pockets. Now that's funny!!
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    Default Hey Twink

    You're gonna go around wearing boots like that you better have a nuclear reactor in your hot pockets...After seeing that pic, I do fear ya man, I do. I finally have a plan for after tshtf, I'm going over to Chris's mountain retreat and making 'smores. (the ones that glow in the dark are just the bestest!)
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