#reactor

Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel. ↗

— Don Sherwood

#atomic energy #became #continues #energy #federal

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem. ↗

— David R. Brower

#equipment #even #people #perfect #problem

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors. ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #continue #cool #electrical #energy

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon? ↗

— David R. Brower

#bed #decides #gets #guy #happens