9: It's perfectly alright to walk around inside the containment building of a hot nuclear reactor.
absolutely true! in commercial plants it is permissible and common to go into the containment vessle and do work. Why do you think they are called ``zoomie sponges''? They also refuel the reactors while at power.
Try that with a naval nulcear power plant and you are toast.
There are a lot of problems with the way that movie presented nuclear safeguards. My favourite part was how the core temperature was over 4000F and not a single bit of steam was coming out.
The first thing they would have noticed was the power excursion caused by the loss of the moderator (water) and the turbines coming to grinding halt and -all- the power going out.
Interesting how the lights stayed on everywhere. Probably due to a back up reactor. Most likely of the same design.
Kudos to NBC and the research they did for the movie!
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the idea is in the patent.
the actual binary form is in the copyright.
RMS does not have much to say (that i heard) about
copyrights.
Software patents are still absurd. Even RMS copyrights his software (the GPL is a copyright in and of itself.)
So the binary gets covered under copyright. I can seel my one-click to you, and charge you money.
but if you develop it yourself, i am outta luck.
9: It's perfectly alright to walk around inside the containment building of a hot nuclear reactor.
absolutely true! in commercial plants it is permissible and common to go into the containment vessle and do work. Why do you think they are called ``zoomie sponges''? They also refuel the reactors while at power.
Try that with a naval nulcear power plant and you are toast.
There are a lot of problems with the way that movie presented nuclear safeguards. My favourite part was how the core temperature was over 4000F and not a single bit of steam was coming out.
The first thing they would have noticed was the power excursion caused by the loss of the moderator (water) and the turbines coming to grinding halt and -all- the power going out.
Interesting how the lights stayed on everywhere. Probably due to a back up reactor. Most likely of the same design.
Kudos to NBC and the research they did for the movie!
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