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they will use this method to clean up the site.

The FILIUS network simulator sounds like it could be helpful. The homepage (and last time I checked, the program itself!) is unfortunately in German.

A) Reprocessing fuel still costs more than minding it in large part due to it's radio active nature. "the high cost of reprocessing fuel safely requires uranium prices of more than 200 USD/kg before becoming justified economically." vs. "The world's present measured resources of uranium, economically recoverable at a price of 130 USD/kg, are enough to last for "at least a century" at current consumption rates."

B) I am not saying your going to end up with an A bomb, but there are 2 extra failure modes to consider. #1 the pile gains energy fast enough that it "blows up" with about as much energy as that much TNT. AKA 1/1000th the blast of an A bomb, but still much harder to contain than a pure "melt down" so would take a more intense containment structure to maintain safty.

And there is the old liquid sodium leak issue. It might not be as bad, but systems that use a lot of liquid Sodium and Water seem like a bad idea.

http://www2.uni-siegen.de/~pci/versuche/english/v44-1-1.html

PS: The only production breeder reactor in the world is sodium cooled. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-600 it's 600 MW and has had a few problems but nothing drastic. Scaling that up to hundreds or thousands of reactors still seems risky.

* FYI, the support frame on notebooks is magnesium

* FYI, the support frame on notebooks is magnesium

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Enough Said. This entire article is hilarious when held up next to that old BMW ad.

The story submitter states:
Do you want to know where OO languages like Java, Ruby, Squeak, and SmallScript come from?

Although it is true that Java is heavily influenced by Smalltalk, there are also distinctive parts of Java that are based on Modula. Most prominent of which are the Exception handling mechanism and threading model based on Monitors.

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According to the article, the filtering software favored by the Ausie censors bans things with "names such as Pamela". Are they completely out of their head?!?

I guess they don't want to hear about the international space station project (one of the Astronauts is Lt. Col. Pamela Ann Melroy).

There goes Australian Women's Lib history, where Pamela Denoon was apparently a major player.

I wonder if it will also filter out info on the PAMELA Magnetic Spectrometer, scheduled for launch two years from now.

Do these censors have any idea how stupid they look when they suggest things like this.