Frist Seeks to Install Nuclear Reactor (in his house)..you too can have a HomeNuke9000!

[tpsbmam]

WTF? I read voraciously but somehow managed to miss this -- we now have home nuclear reactors?? WTF!! Is anyone else just a tad freaked out at the thought of your neighbors having nuclear reactors in their basements?

http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/The_Fabricator/2008/04/10/Frist_Seeks_to_Install_Nuclear_R/

First a gate, now a HomeNuke 9000
Former Sen. Bill Frist, who last week won a zoning variance to install a towering 8-foot gate outside his Bowling Avenue mansion, has now filed papers to begin installation of a nuclear reactor in the home’s basement.

The small reactor, part of General Electric’s HomeNuke 9000 series, will produce enough electricity to power the mansion and will allow Frist to sell the excess power to NES for redistribution to other customers, says a Frist spokesman.

“Installing a home nuclear reactor is a very responsible thing to do,” the spokesman continues. “Nuclear energy doesn’t contribute at all to global warming, and, like all of us who were inspired by Al Gore, the senator has been working hard to reduce his carbon footprint.”

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Frist hasn't changed one iota:

“I don’t know much about these things, but Frist said in a letter that he saw a video of one and that, since he’s a doctor, he could tell that it was safe,” one board member says.

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Yep, and he could override Terri Schiavo's physicians by watching a videotape and declare she wasn't in a persistent vegetative state. Assholes, both Frist and the person who made the above idiotic statement.

HomeNuke9000....I may have heard everything now.

[enlightenment]

1. It's satire. No such critter.

Not that I'd put it past that nutjob to install something like that if they did exist!

[tpsbmam]

3. It's not satire.....

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/toshibas-home-n.html

Toshiba's Home Nuclear Reactor

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Toshiba's_Home_Nuclear_Fusion_Reactor

Directory:Toshiba's Micro Nuclear Reactor

Toshiba and the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) are jointly developing a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that are designed to power large apartment buildings or small city sections. The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for small remote communities, businesses or even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over their energy needs.

[Doctor Cynic]

2. "The Fabricator"

Probably means it's a section the paper has, similar to The Onion.

[bcool]

4. It's a joke

Notice the title of the article..."The Fabricator". It's a satirical article that appears from time to time.

[tpsbmam]

5. Guess you're all right -- I fell for it. These things do exist though -- that freaks me out. n/t

[rurallib]

6. I was hoping one of those rods might end up the old Frist hole

in a home accident.

[Wilber_Stool]

7. Bullshit.

He wants to build a bomb.