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[InnerSphereNews]

Thur. Apr 12, 3049: Citizens For Safety petition Archon to mandate the replacement of the centuries’ old nuclear reactor below Tharkad City.

[Mason Grimm]

Ah ha!!!!!!!

Ghost is gettin sloooooooooooooow What? This is a full 4 minutes after it was posted. I'm just sayin!

Also, the Archon has been skimpin out on paying the electric bill apparently.

[Ghost]

Unfortunately, it looks like the petition for a safer form of power generation will go unheard. The reactor is later destroyed during an orbital bombardment in 3067 causing severe radioactive contamination on the scale of a nuclear weapon.

[whiskey tango foxtrot]

Don't the citizens of Tharkad City already glow in the dark ???

[Dihm]

I bet they want to round all corners and bubblewrap children too.

[Solis Obscuri]

Ironically, if it's "centuries old" it's probably safer than anything built on Succession Wars-era Tech1...

[pursang]

Shouldn't it be "petition the Archon"?

/Nitpick awwwaayy!

[Dihm]

pursang, on 12 April 2012 - 09:04 AM, said:

Shouldn't it be "petition the Archon"?

/Nitpick awwwaayy!

It's a "headline", or a "future-tweet".

[TimberJon]

That's a damn fine reactor if it is that old, lasts that long and is nuclear, not fusion. All the BattleMechs use fusion reactors and have since the Mackie was born... Go ITER! (iter.org)

BT timeline says GM produces the first commercial unit in 2020. More likely it will be GE..
But the ITER reactor is scheduled for first plasma in 2019. So good job FASA!

NOTE: I am not stupid enough to believe that a commercial unit will be developed or available anywhere within years of first plasma from the largest research project. Still, it's exciting.

[pursang]

Dihm, on 12 April 2012 - 09:06 AM, said:

It's a "headline", or a "future-tweet".

Future-tweets? Fweets?

[LaorDeLove]

Why would they want that? That is like asking for all the battlemechs to not be on the planet. It is insane. Besides if the reactor goes boom and contaminates the underground water supply of the planet they could make the planet DUNE! Then they can all move to Earth. Melissa is now the First Lord of the Star League!

[Adridos]

It is the main planet of the House of super richies and they can't fix one stupid reactor?

[Mason Grimm]

Adridos, on 12 April 2012 - 10:17 AM, said:

It is the main planet of the House of super richies and they can't fix one stupid reactor?

What do you expect with parts that are stamped with "Made in Liao"

[Adridos]

Mason Grimm, on 12 April 2012 - 10:22 AM, said:

What do you expect with parts that are stamped with "Made in Liao"

Oh, so it is so good, but they are in war with us (blame Davions) and thus can't rebuy new parts?

House Liao exports only the finest quality goods, look it up.

[Mason Grimm]

Yes, I found your Product List here!

Only the finest sweaters and shirts for our citizens! Don't worry folks, all the seamstress are over the age of 8!

The Clock is one of our finest and most popular products; there is no alarm on it cause nobody in House Liao really has any place important to be but it still helps mark the passage of time.

[Dihm]

Way to go Mason, fuel their "everyone hates the Capellans!!!" fire.

[Adridos]

Mason Grimm, on 12 April 2012 - 10:35 AM, said:

Yes, I found your Product List here!

It is the same as the Davion one. Now I understand how Steiners got rich.

Reason

Yeah, pillows and teddies are simply better.


P.S. But I agree you are 20% cooler than the whole Battletech merchandise combined.

Edited by Adridos, 12 April 2012 - 10:53 AM.

[Mason Grimm]

LOL recycled jokes for a recycled House

[Jaegerwolf]

I want to know if anyone actually bought the dog shirts

[Ranger207]

Ghost, on 12 April 2012 - 08:04 AM, said:

Unfortunately, it looks like the petition for a safer form of power generation will go unheard. The reactor is later destroyed during an orbital bombardment in 3067 causing severe radioactive contamination on the scale of a nuclear weapon.

When TechManual is describing how fusion reactors do NOT go nuclear (usually), it brings this up. Turns out that the actual explosion is sodium coolant, and the resulting chemical explosion caused the mushroom cloud. The radiation was from some nearby tanks of molten salt holding radioactive materials. Over the years, Tharkad Power & Heat had expanded the fusion reactor facility to include a hazardous-wast treatment plant. Baaad move, TP&H.

Edited by Ranger207, 12 April 2012 - 11:19 AM.