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Richard Casady Richard Casady is offline
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Default DISMASTED - told you so . . .

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:14:12 -0400, wrote:

And nuclear powered electric generation plants are also steam plants.
What is you point... assuming you have one?


Unless they are not. Some are powered by the heat from radioactive
decay using thermocouples. Space probes are an application. I am not
sure how plutonium powered cardiac pacemakers work, but is isn't
steam.

Casady