$200K For A Nuclear Plant in Second Life?
No kidding. Via NEI Nuclear Notes, I came across In Second Life, There’s No Fallout:
Robert C. Amme, a research professor of physics at the University of Denver, thinks there aren’t nearly enough scientists with expertise in managing nuclear waste. So to train the next generation of environmental assessment specialists, he’s taking them to a place where there’s no radiation, nuclear fallout or even laws of gravity.
Armed with a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Amme and his colleagues are preparing to build a nuclear reactor — in the virtual, online world of Second Life...
OK. It has been about 15 years since Naval Nuclear Propulsion School, but I can say that any Nuclear Reactor in Second Life will be very limited with script concerns, etc - unless some of it is done on an external server/cluster. Those little particles get pretty busy, and the flow of fluid in the pipes, and so on....
$200K!
Remember that Nuclear reactor that Yadni had? I couldn't find it... and no one I contacted had it either... would have made for a good pic for this entry...
[humor]
G.W. Bush has made no comment on Second Life having a nuclear reactor. Considering that he may have read about Jihadists in Second Life, it seems unlikely he would support the idea. Arnold Schwarzenegger may think he can power California with it.
Philip Rosedale will probably say that there is no policy for virtual nuclear reactors which will create virtual nuclear waste.
Film at 11.
[/humor]
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Maybe I sould get a grant to set up a nuclear waste site.
lol
I've seen a few of those...
littered across the mainland... O.o If you can get a grant for it, well... :-)
You could always use a pic
You could always use a pic from the Chernobyl sim to illustrate the post. -Osprey
Yadni's reactor...
would have been funnier. ;-)
Ofcourse this is to be used
Ofcourse this is to be used for educational/peaceful purposes only... wait what are those launchtowers doing there ?