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This has been posted here before, about two years ago -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569564 -- but (1) it's very good and (2) the old URL no longer works.

It's by Charlie Stross, a science fiction author and former hacker. It describes a lengthy tour of the nuclear reactor complex at Torness in Scotland.



He also posts on HN as 'cstross'.


Not to mention that it's an AGR (Advanced Gas cooled Reactor) something that doesn't exist in the U.S. or most of the world. Very cool.


Very clever design, much more efficent, much safer - negative temp coeff and no chance of a steam explosion.

But they never reached the critical mass (sorry) to make them standard and so cheap to build and operate.




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