If the USA didn't want to be reliant upon the Russians for manned spaceflight, then they should have given NASA enough money to develop a proper new heavy-lift solution (ie. not orion/mars or whatever other ATK-based abomination the senators from Utah want).
Russia's ally, Syria, is currently in the midst of a civil war, partly due to the power-vacuum created when the US invaded Iraq. (Syrian salafists, who were previously a pain in the ass to Assad, but "kept down" - went into Iraq to fight the US. Those experienced veterans came back after the "awakening", and are now back in Syria, fighting to overthrow Assad. If Syria falls to jihadists/salafists, it is conceivable that access to the black sea is cut off.
As a developer, we're only "allowed" to run 8.x in a lab. Our IT dept doesn't want it on our desktop machines, but we need to run it to test our products, because we have to run the same environment as our users. (if any are even running it).
Code is not for communicating instructions to the computer. That's what ASM is for.
Your source code is for communicating your algorithm to other coders. (or even yourself, say, 2 years from now, when you're maintaining it).
Writing undocumented, and obscure code, is, in my book, roughly equivalent to throwing your fast-food wrappers out of the window of your car while driving down the highway.
Because the high temperature of the molten fuel, you can't design a container for it, and without a container, you can't pressurize the steam to spin a turbine.
Your other question, about why a plant can SCRAM and still overheat; yes, someone's design IS way fucked up. These older-design reactors create a large amount of short-lived decay products, (basically, the leftover bits of atoms after the uranium nuclei split) - some of these are stable, and most are not, and they will also decay. When these decay products decay, they also create waste heat. (a lot). And while the reactor is designed to moderate and use that heat, the chemical makeup of the fuel is always being altered as those Uranium atoms split. When a reactor is SCRAMmed, the Uranium fissioning stops, but the decay products continue to fission. This stuff has to "burn off" and it can't be rushed, it simply takes time. The heat from this process is called "decay heat" and it is what makes these reactors dangerous even after shutdown. If this decay heat is not removed actively by pumping water, it will build up, and at about 2000 degrees C, the zirconium cladding of the fuel acts as a catalyst, and splits the cooling-water into H2, and O. Any source of ignition will cause a Hydrogen explosion. (which is what happened at TMI first - which is why plants must now have venting systems to get rid of excess Hydrogen - and Fukushima's failed). Zirconium also tends to burn pretty well at that temperature - especially when exposed to pure oxygen. The hydrogen explosion will often damage the cooling equipment, (and the rest of the building) and then you're really fucked, because at 2800 degrees C, the uranium dioxide (fuel) begins to melt down.
Yeah, it's a design flaw, but you know, economical choices must be made in order to provide electricity that's "too cheap to meter".
They seem pretty happy to avail themselves of our extremely expensive military when they need their foreign assets protected. And they also seem happy to invest in lobbyists and campaign contributions.
This can be the most difficult task, depending on the people in your area/work etc. I've been in a couple of different places, and I can't really say how there is a pattern to this, but there are some work-environments where nobody will be interested in being a mentor. This type of environment is filled with cowboy-coders and NIH-mentality, who know how to look like they are "team-players" but really are only out for their own individual glory. They seem to gravitate to certain organizations. Other places I've worked, I've found a completely different culture, where this sort of attitude just doesn't thrive. But if you're in a place that fosters this kind of mentality, it's almost impossible to find a mentor. And over years, you'll tend to get tasking that fits your skillset, which tends to keep you in a little box, career-wise. Don't get trapped in that box. . .
The big deal with Pluto not being a planet, is that it was discovered by an American, and Americans are butthurt over losing the "credit" for discovering a Planet.
hey, you, paid Russian web-propaganda dude! You're on the wrong thread. This is the thread for the paid pro-Nuclear web propaganda team. The Ukraine thread is about a page and a half down.
Every time I come on to one of these threads about radiation, usually dozens of very knowledgable people come on and say that this kind of radiation is less than a bannana, and therefore, safe. I can't imagine what could possibly be causing such observations of slowing decay. Maybe those scientists are part of the world coal-burning conspiracy who are trying to raise the earth's climate to make it more habitable for the aliens, and are spreading false stories to discredit that clean, clean, safe and reliable nuclear power.
They can surely make Nuclear Devices fairly rapidly. I doubt they will be able to weaponize them within a reasonable time-frame. (reasonable being: the time it takes Russia to steamroller the whole country and seize any facilities).
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When installing a security update for .NET takes 45 minutes, there is no pretending involved.
orion/sls is not a viable alternative.
It's a money-suck designed to perpetuate profits for contractors in utah. (particularly, ATK).
If the USA didn't want to be reliant upon the Russians for manned spaceflight, then they should have given NASA enough money to develop a proper new heavy-lift solution (ie. not orion/mars or whatever other ATK-based abomination the senators from Utah want).
I think that Russia sure as hell DID care.
Russia's ally, Syria, is currently in the midst of a civil war, partly due to the power-vacuum created when the US invaded Iraq. (Syrian salafists, who were previously a pain in the ass to Assad, but "kept down" - went into Iraq to fight the US. Those experienced veterans came back after the "awakening", and are now back in Syria, fighting to overthrow Assad. If Syria falls to jihadists/salafists, it is conceivable that access to the black sea is cut off.
lol; I saw the demo (halo 1) on on my dual G5 PPC. Talk about a disappointment.
As a developer, we're only "allowed" to run 8.x in a lab. Our IT dept doesn't want it on our desktop machines, but we need to run it to test our products, because we have to run the same environment as our users. (if any are even running it).
Building a payment infrastructure like the one Visa has costs many billions of dollars to build and more billions to operate on an ongoing basis.
. . . particularly with such high executive overhead.
They also eat a shitton of disk space.
Windows 7 SP1, set of windows updates, is nearly 1 gb.
Yes, this.
Code is not for communicating instructions to the computer. That's what ASM is for.
Your source code is for communicating your algorithm to other coders. (or even yourself, say, 2 years from now, when you're maintaining it).
Writing undocumented, and obscure code, is, in my book, roughly equivalent to throwing your fast-food wrappers out of the window of your car while driving down the highway.
Because the high temperature of the molten fuel, you can't design a container for it, and without a container, you can't pressurize the steam to spin a turbine.
Your other question, about why a plant can SCRAM and still overheat; yes, someone's design IS way fucked up. These older-design reactors create a large amount of short-lived decay products, (basically, the leftover bits of atoms after the uranium nuclei split) - some of these are stable, and most are not, and they will also decay. When these decay products decay, they also create waste heat. (a lot). And while the reactor is designed to moderate and use that heat, the chemical makeup of the fuel is always being altered as those Uranium atoms split. When a reactor is SCRAMmed, the Uranium fissioning stops, but the decay products continue to fission. This stuff has to "burn off" and it can't be rushed, it simply takes time. The heat from this process is called "decay heat" and it is what makes these reactors dangerous even after shutdown. If this decay heat is not removed actively by pumping water, it will build up, and at about 2000 degrees C, the zirconium cladding of the fuel acts as a catalyst, and splits the cooling-water into H2, and O. Any source of ignition will cause a Hydrogen explosion. (which is what happened at TMI first - which is why plants must now have venting systems to get rid of excess Hydrogen - and Fukushima's failed). Zirconium also tends to burn pretty well at that temperature - especially when exposed to pure oxygen. The hydrogen explosion will often damage the cooling equipment, (and the rest of the building) and then you're really fucked, because at 2800 degrees C, the uranium dioxide (fuel) begins to melt down.
Yeah, it's a design flaw, but you know, economical choices must be made in order to provide electricity that's "too cheap to meter".
Having worked for a former acquiree; can confirm.
Corporate America is DIVESTING from America.
They seem pretty happy to avail themselves of our extremely expensive military when they need their foreign assets protected. And they also seem happy to invest in lobbyists and campaign contributions.
We can't learn new technologies when your whole day is spent working on OLD technologies.
Civility in academic research? LOL!!!!
This can be the most difficult task, depending on the people in your area/work etc. I've been in a couple of different places, and I can't really say how there is a pattern to this, but there are some work-environments where nobody will be interested in being a mentor. This type of environment is filled with cowboy-coders and NIH-mentality, who know how to look like they are "team-players" but really are only out for their own individual glory. They seem to gravitate to certain organizations. Other places I've worked, I've found a completely different culture, where this sort of attitude just doesn't thrive. But if you're in a place that fosters this kind of mentality, it's almost impossible to find a mentor. And over years, you'll tend to get tasking that fits your skillset, which tends to keep you in a little box, career-wise. Don't get trapped in that box. . .
and toss Ceres, Eris, and a couple dozen other big rocks
Nobody tosses a dwarf!
No.
The big deal with Pluto not being a planet, is that it was discovered by an American, and Americans are butthurt over losing the "credit" for discovering a Planet.
Ah yes.. Eris. Let us STRIVE over it.
who knew, Greenspan was a proponent of what is essentially "soft-slavery".
hey, you, paid Russian web-propaganda dude! You're on the wrong thread. This is the thread for the paid pro-Nuclear web propaganda team. The Ukraine thread is about a page and a half down.
Every time I come on to one of these threads about radiation, usually dozens of very knowledgable people come on and say that this kind of radiation is less than a bannana, and therefore, safe. I can't imagine what could possibly be causing such observations of slowing decay. Maybe those scientists are part of the world coal-burning conspiracy who are trying to raise the earth's climate to make it more habitable for the aliens, and are spreading false stories to discredit that clean, clean, safe and reliable nuclear power.
as in meatspace, language is still a powerful barrier. Though at least there are tools to try to address that.
this implies a hijacking.
I hope this "king" dies of dysentery too.
They can surely make Nuclear Devices fairly rapidly. I doubt they will be able to weaponize them within a reasonable time-frame. (reasonable being: the time it takes Russia to steamroller the whole country and seize any facilities).