Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 22, 2011

YIKES

Oh no – the travel coffee mug house!

If this was made in Japan, it might meltdown.

There can’t be much traffic getting in and out of the neighborhood either. Sign me up.

Would suit nuclear family.

Don’t “amortization” and “half-life” kinda mean the same thing?

Pretty much describes my house.

It should have free electric.

Might not need electric; glow-in-the-dark walls! (With dark curtains.)

I can’t find any fault in his logic…..

Topical yet true. 20km and expanding.

Not many nuclear plants I’ve seen use those type of cooling towers. So less likely people be that afraid of it.

I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or a dome home!!!

JUst put a sign outside: “County Landfill” and some fake Seagulls about.

You might find a cooling tower on about any kind of power plant that generates steam (Coal, Gas, Nuclear, others). It is one of the biggest misconceptions about nuclear.

If it was functional though, you would not need air conditioning, and you would have 500 floors!

Out of all the reactors in all the world, only three have gone bad. What are the chances of this one?

Yeah, it’s funny, people see a cooling tower and thing “DANGER!”, but it’s the containment dome that holds the scary stuff. And one of those domes would make a good, solid house!

MSNBC had an article just last week about how more people are moving closer to nuclear plants. I replied that I’d much rather live next to a nuke plant than next to Hollywood or Disney World.

Yeah, it’s funny how so many disaster and gloom articles show the item least likely to cause any problems to the local community. The cooling towers have no nuclear material, and are isolated from such by at least three boundary layers. Cooling towers generally don’t catch fire, have few moving parts (fans mostly if that), and yet because they are typically the most imposing structures, they have become the symbols for nuclear plants. In the United States, containment domes for nuclear reactors are required to be built to withstand the effects of 2 commercial jetliners crashing into them without allowing a breach. Not sure if Japan’s reactors are held to the same standards.

Central air.

I just love the idiots who see a Natural draft Cooling Tower and think it’s a Nuclear Power plant. Hey they use them at Coal and Gas power plants too.

It’s ironic that the hyperboloid cooling tower became the icon of nuclear power after Three Mile Island, as neither Chernobyl nor Fukushima used them.

Not all reactors have containment “domes.” The shape of the building varies greatly from one style of reactor to the next. Fukushima’s GE Mark I BWR’s were housed in cubical buildings; many of the PWR reactors in the US are housed in concrete cylinders, some of the older reactors are in spherical containments, and of course the San Onofre reactors in California are housed in domes that made Lt. Frank Drebbin think of his late wife…

@ puddlegum: thanks for the Frank Drebin rememberance. Smiling

If you’re worried, you can rent an unused ICBM silo to build in.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe! Imagine how little time her guests spent there!

So is it a forced draft or natural draft cooling tower? Sorry, that is not a containment building for a nuclear reactor. Some coal-fired power plants use these types of cooling towers.

It’s a mutated yurt!

Road side architecture at it’s best. I’d go see that house, thus rendering the real estate agent’s claims null and void.

Social vs nuclear contamination.

A Frank Lloyd Wrong design?

My questions: How Much, and How much are the taxes?

Someone has too much socialist FUD on their mind. No nuclear material in the tower, as others have said. It removes heat through a heat exchanger using clean water and evaporative cooling.

Nuclear, a terrible thing to waste….

Cool design!

Now that’s my kind of house! The perfect place for a misanthrope.

I like it. It has a certain glow to it.