Beta emitters, mostly. 3H, 14C, 32P. Not as bad as alpha, but I still do not want those in my own DNA. Worst place for a point source of ionizing radiation.
Sorry, but the toxicity of Pu is mainly radiotoxicity. The chemical heavy metal toxicity is quite negligible compared to that. No problem handling a subcritical solid sphere of Pu - but as soon as you get particulate matter or soluble Pu ions, you want to stay the heck away from it. It has a long biological halflife and tends to get you cancer real quick when in the body.
TMI is clean - but cleaning up a single meltdown in an intact containment building took em close to 10 years. Here we have 4 reactors in variable states of core damage, dried out spent fuel pools with the fuel of at least one probably thrown around by an explosion, water washing out core material - yeah, I guess 30 years might be a good estimate.
Wind and solar provide stochastic, but predictable power, which, over the grid averages out and can indeed provide baseload. If you go solar thermal, you got a large buffer in your molten salt reservoir, so you get even less stochastic influence.
Jesus, how often does this prop up again? There IS NO radiological problem of coal ash. It generally gets used as additive for concrete and in road construction, at least around here. If a batch is deemed contaminated - usually by heavy metals from certain coal sources - it is used as filler and construction material in mines below the water table. I'll give you the point on CO2, though - that is indeed an unaccounted for externality.
Filtering is out, because not all of it is particulate, but rather in solution. Distillation would work, though. Personally, I'd opt for ion exchange - would probably get the highest throughput. In either case, you will have to set up a plant for it. That will take time. Properly treating the water will take a lot of time too, as you don't want to accumulate so much material on your ion exchange resin that you can't handle it safely, so you will go through a lot of resin, do a lot of replacement. Same with distillation, you probably only want to distill small batches, Dispose of the crap, go for the next patch.
Well, dimethyl mercury is probably Nr. 1 on my list of stuff I will not work with in a lab, ever. No Sir, find someone else to handle that shit. Outright scary stuff. Plutonium, while indeed a lot less toxic, is not far beyond though. The chemical toxicity doesn't concern me there, but ingestion of an alpha emitter with a long biological half-life is not on my agenda, either:P
Indeed. You can't stress that enough. The part of labwork I hated most was working with Tritium-labels. Sure, that plastic shield holds back all the alphas, but stuff gets aerosolized and that is not particular fun. Labeled nucleotides are the best fun of all - ingest the shit and it gets incorporated straight up into your DNA. Hell yeah.
Throw the Great Ones, Old Ones and Deep Ones in with it. Shoggoth Studies 101. Advanced Dagon Worship. IA! IA! If they want raving madness on the curriculum, give it to them, full blast! Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
God almighty, the dumbasses really have overrun/. - this gets modded insightful? "Macroevolution" - the codeword of fundamentalist nutjobs for "evolutionary effects that have not been reproduced in the lab". We have seen speciation in the lab, in the genus Drosophila and in the genus Escherichia. Guess speciation is now micro, didn't you get the memo? Now you have to whine about the formation of new genera not being observed, or just move on to families. "Macroevolution" - the ever moving goalpost.
Consciousness is an illusion is a completely different statement from free will does not exist, though. And you seem to be particularily sensitive to Salvia. All I got out of it was a deeply relaxed Zen state.
You know, compared to some low-class code monkeys that spend their days sitting around wanking off to their own glory, thinking themselves scientists because they passes computer "science" 101, some scientist actually get some work done. And for 16 mil, you pay a lot of PhD students of real sciences.
In all likelihood, the cores are structurally damaged from falling at least half-dry for a couple of hours. The top-levels of the buildings are blown apart, so the fuel-handling machines are blown up and rubble blocks the access to the wetwell. If you want to get to the cores, you are looking at timeframes like in TMI, where it took them more than 5 years to extract the fuel from one reactor, which was housed in a building that did not blow up. Looks more like it is gonna be entomb and abandon here... And wait until it gets washed into the Pacific with the next tsunami. But heck until then - the public has forgotten again.
I don't have the paper handy, but from what I read, Cs has a bioaccumulation factor of 2 for each level of the food chain. So, not as bad as fat-soluble toxins like PCB or dioxins, but, yeah, there will be lingering effects, especially for the fisheries. For filter feeders like mussels, the effect will probably be higher in the local (or non-local) waters.
You mean the workable plan of getting recirculation that includes getting the piping fixed that got blown apart and getting the pumps running again that are currently immersed under a couple of kilotons of water giving off about 1 Sv/h in the immediate vicinity? Yep, someone is not paying attention, indeed.
If I had to go for jail for something, I mean, If I could chose - I would chose to go to the slammer for going berzerk and ripping at least 10 people that posted this tired, boring, uninformed and frankly idiotic meme on slashdot limb from limb. Then writing "READ THE FUCKING LITERATURE BEFORE POSTING SMART-ARSE BULLSHIT" in 10-meter tall letters on some wall. That, yes, that I would consider fulfillment.
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Beta emitters, mostly. 3H, 14C, 32P. Not as bad as alpha, but I still do not want those in my own DNA. Worst place for a point source of ionizing radiation.
In that case, Bernard Cohen is full of shit.
Sorry, but the toxicity of Pu is mainly radiotoxicity. The chemical heavy metal toxicity is quite negligible compared to that. No problem handling a subcritical solid sphere of Pu - but as soon as you get particulate matter or soluble Pu ions, you want to stay the heck away from it. It has a long biological halflife and tends to get you cancer real quick when in the body.
Fuka-Cola Quantum?
TMI is clean - but cleaning up a single meltdown in an intact containment building took em close to 10 years. Here we have 4 reactors in variable states of core damage, dried out spent fuel pools with the fuel of at least one probably thrown around by an explosion, water washing out core material - yeah, I guess 30 years might be a good estimate.
Wind and solar provide stochastic, but predictable power, which, over the grid averages out and can indeed provide baseload. If you go solar thermal, you got a large buffer in your molten salt reservoir, so you get even less stochastic influence.
Jesus, how often does this prop up again? There IS NO radiological problem of coal ash. It generally gets used as additive for concrete and in road construction, at least around here. If a batch is deemed contaminated - usually by heavy metals from certain coal sources - it is used as filler and construction material in mines below the water table. I'll give you the point on CO2, though - that is indeed an unaccounted for externality.
Filtering is out, because not all of it is particulate, but rather in solution. Distillation would work, though. Personally, I'd opt for ion exchange - would probably get the highest throughput. In either case, you will have to set up a plant for it. That will take time. Properly treating the water will take a lot of time too, as you don't want to accumulate so much material on your ion exchange resin that you can't handle it safely, so you will go through a lot of resin, do a lot of replacement. Same with distillation, you probably only want to distill small batches, Dispose of the crap, go for the next patch.
Well, dimethyl mercury is probably Nr. 1 on my list of stuff I will not work with in a lab, ever. No Sir, find someone else to handle that shit. Outright scary stuff. Plutonium, while indeed a lot less toxic, is not far beyond though. The chemical toxicity doesn't concern me there, but ingestion of an alpha emitter with a long biological half-life is not on my agenda, either :P
Indeed. You can't stress that enough. The part of labwork I hated most was working with Tritium-labels. Sure, that plastic shield holds back all the alphas, but stuff gets aerosolized and that is not particular fun. Labeled nucleotides are the best fun of all - ingest the shit and it gets incorporated straight up into your DNA. Hell yeah.
Throw the Great Ones, Old Ones and Deep Ones in with it. Shoggoth Studies 101. Advanced Dagon Worship. IA! IA! If they want raving madness on the curriculum, give it to them, full blast! Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
So, ermm, wait - he fulfills the unconditional promise on the condition that you ask? Your god fails at logic...
You missed the "For every" part there - that is the all-quantor. This is a universal claim.
God almighty, the dumbasses really have overrun /. - this gets modded insightful? "Macroevolution" - the codeword of fundamentalist nutjobs for "evolutionary effects that have not been reproduced in the lab". We have seen speciation in the lab, in the genus Drosophila and in the genus Escherichia. Guess speciation is now micro, didn't you get the memo? Now you have to whine about the formation of new genera not being observed, or just move on to families. "Macroevolution" - the ever moving goalpost.
FNORD. Nothing to see here. FNORD.
I give you some slack for the jest - but seriously, that "they are only doing it for the funding" - meme is an insult to every scientist.
Consciousness is an illusion is a completely different statement from free will does not exist, though. And you seem to be particularily sensitive to Salvia. All I got out of it was a deeply relaxed Zen state.
So, how does it actually feel to be an idiot? Does it hurt? And if so, in what manner? Sharp stings? A constant burning?
You know, compared to some low-class code monkeys that spend their days sitting around wanking off to their own glory, thinking themselves scientists because they passes computer "science" 101, some scientist actually get some work done. And for 16 mil, you pay a lot of PhD students of real sciences.
In all likelihood, the cores are structurally damaged from falling at least half-dry for a couple of hours. The top-levels of the buildings are blown apart, so the fuel-handling machines are blown up and rubble blocks the access to the wetwell. If you want to get to the cores, you are looking at timeframes like in TMI, where it took them more than 5 years to extract the fuel from one reactor, which was housed in a building that did not blow up. Looks more like it is gonna be entomb and abandon here... And wait until it gets washed into the Pacific with the next tsunami. But heck until then - the public has forgotten again.
I don't have the paper handy, but from what I read, Cs has a bioaccumulation factor of 2 for each level of the food chain. So, not as bad as fat-soluble toxins like PCB or dioxins, but, yeah, there will be lingering effects, especially for the fisheries. For filter feeders like mussels, the effect will probably be higher in the local (or non-local) waters.
#3 is implied and means "???" by convention.
You mean the workable plan of getting recirculation that includes getting the piping fixed that got blown apart and getting the pumps running again that are currently immersed under a couple of kilotons of water giving off about 1 Sv/h in the immediate vicinity? Yep, someone is not paying attention, indeed.
If I had to go for jail for something, I mean, If I could chose - I would chose to go to the slammer for going berzerk and ripping at least 10 people that posted this tired, boring, uninformed and frankly idiotic meme on slashdot limb from limb. Then writing "READ THE FUCKING LITERATURE BEFORE POSTING SMART-ARSE BULLSHIT" in 10-meter tall letters on some wall. That, yes, that I would consider fulfillment.
If you gotta resort to measurements like "less than chernobyl" to promote your power plants - you have lost already.