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London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium
solafide writes "The Globe and Mail reports 'A British nuclear-reprocessing plant [at Sellafield] cannot account for nearly 30 kilograms of plutonium, but authorities believe it is an accounting issue rather than a loss of potential bomb-making material, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority said.' Although it says later plutonium is only 1% of what they deal with there. The Times Online has more details."
Yes, but did they find a box full of shiny used pinball machine parts?
if i knew then what i know now i am sure i would not be a virgin.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
"It was your (USan) ancestors who went over to America and killed all the native people (and flora and fauna)."
And I suppose none of that happened north of the 49th? Or was confederation retroactive?
"You clearly have not experienced our (UK) transport system,"
As I understand it, you have these things over there called "trains," peculiar devices I've seen pictures of in history books. They're supposed to take you to various places you want to go without road rage and without the FAA doing a cavity search. They may or may not run on time, but the closest thing we have here will take you anyplace you want to go as long as it's Chicago.
"and are not aware that population on our little island is nearly as big as yours."
Um... no. There are about 5 Americans for every Briton. For comparison, there's about 4 Chinese for every American. You might have us on population density, depending on where you look (if you ignore the Boston-Washington coridor), but we've got you in shear numbers by half an order of magnitude.
- US 2000 census: 281,421,906
- UK 2001 census: 58,789,194
which by my reckoning is 4.8 times, so I stand corrected (sorry). As you were only a few of us orginally, you guys must have been...uhh...multiplying a lot more since you left...LOL.Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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It's not the metric system which messes things up. It's the English system (which is pretty much not being used in England any more). If it wasn't for the US Media always throing out English measurements, I'd probably know just how tall 183cm was.
And the perverse thing is, your so-called "English" measurements aren't the same as the old-fashioned ones still used in England (and the rest of the UK).
For example, the American pint is equal to 0.8 Imperial (British) pints; fluid ounces are also different.
The UK made moves to go metric over 30 years ago (when my Mum started teaching in the early 1970s, they were teaching kids in metric *then*!), but pints, miles and so on are still in wide use.
I default to metres/centimetres for distance (though I can visualise inches reasonably well), centigrade for temperature (have to convert fahrenheit), and yet I still drive in miles per hour, buy milk in (imperial) pints, measure my height in feet and inches, and weigh myself in pounds and stones (though when I was using the gym I did it in kilograms instead).
Oh yeah; stones. That's one measure you Americans don't have; 1 stone = 14 pounds.
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