The United Nations has already ramped up its UNSCEAR ostrich team. Its chairman Wolfgang Weiss was asked what health effects Japan would suffer, after the numerous Terabequerels discharged. Weiss replied, "From what I know now, nothing, because levels are so low."
Weiss and UNSCEAR have discredited themselves before they even got started. Their goal is to collect reams of data in the first two years, long before the cancers begin to metastasize, then claim victory for the atom and move on.
Weiss openly lied when he said, "The only proven effect after Chernobyl was thyroid cancer in children." Anyone who's even glanced at the Chernobyl disaster knows numerous people died, including thousands of "liquidators" the Soviet conscripts who cleaned up the mess. Independent research flies in the face of the UN cover-ups and places mortality at approximately one million casualties (Yablokov, 2009).
Weiss, the current UNSCEAR head, claimed:
"In Fukushima, the people were evacuated before any [radioactive] release took place..." (Reuters)
What? Another lie! What nonsense is this man floating as trial balloons? Nothing of the sort happened. Hundreds of thousands are still there, now, living in contaminated regions blanketed with Cesium 137.
Have no illusions about UNSCEAR and the IAEA. It is their job to make this go away, pretend all is fine. Cancers can take decades to form, and cancers are not counted by UNSCEAR, excepting the glaringly undeniable childhood thyroid variety. Here's an aside: If UNSCEAR admits that radiation releases cause thyroid cancers, is it not at least conceivable to them that the absorbed radiation is also causing other illnesses as well?
Numerous other maladies: birth defects, stillbirths, heart, lung, brain, organ diseases will certainly not be counted, and their victims will be ignored by the UN agencies. That means they never happened, right?
UNSCEAR and IAEA have turned science on its head with a logical fallacy that seems to pass unnoticed in the media. They claim that because there are "no biomarkers specific to radiation, it is not possible to state scientifically that radiation caused a particular cancer in an individual." (UNSCEAR, 2008) And they use this as some kind of insane proof that the cancers were not caused by radiation.
The UN then prepares faulty, fraudulent "death toll" counts that omit cancers when there is no scientific basis for omitting them. The "no biomarkers" logic cannot be used to rule out that radiation caused cancers: it's then an unknown. Radiation doesn't just magically lose its carcinogenic properties because of a faulty screening condition that disqualifies people from being counted. These are gradeschool shenanigans gone global."
"but the quality of your lines do not tend to change based time of day"
Are you kidding??Have you never heard of NEXT and FEXT (Near/Far End Cross Talk). DSL Line conditions change all the time, it's function of how may xDSL users are activity using separate wire pairs in the same cable bundles.
P.S. I recently dumped my ten+ year old DSL line, because it had been significantly degraded by some double pair Uverse (vDSL) installs just down the street.
Initially, I had a solid 1.5Mb down for about 5 years, but as the number of the AT&T aDSL deployments increased my rates dropped, A few years ago, AT&T dug up the underground wire taps at each pole and removed all the bridge taps, that improved my downstream S/N by 8db and restored my 1.5 Mbit/sec download speeds.
But in the end.. It was At&t's Uverse (vDSL) double pair deployments that finished off my long running DSL service. Even with Covad's max noise profile settings, FEC+Interleave @928K down, there was a reoccurring daily pattern, where my aDSL2+ modem would train down to 384K down with very high error rates.
"Would these locations prefer a windmill farm or coal fired plant. "
Wind farms are very efficient, converting 85 to 93% of the wind energy directly to electricity. Now compare that to a conventional thermal power plant.
The 60 to 65% waste Heat from 600MW(e) coal plant would be more enough to double the effective average solar flux (3 to 4kWh/m^2/day) over an area of 8 to 9 square kilometers. Note: Not including the indirect effects of CO2 and soot emissions, a doubling the effective solar flux is more than enough to transform the affected area into desert.
If one were to spread out that excess waste energy to match a typical 1 to 2C AGW forcing(1W/m^2) (0.72C by this study). It would work out to an 1 watt thermal forcing over an area of 900 to 1,114 km^2.
It should be obvious to all, that putting up some wind turbines is by far the most environmentally friendly solution to our energy needs.
The companion Huges built Mining Barge(HMB-1), displacement floating dry dock, (with a retractable roof no less), should have kept the Sea Shadow in great shape while it was in storage.
"Theoreticaly, the worse failure modes are less likely, even when weighted by produced power. And, also theoreticaly, they should reduce faster than with big sized reactors."
Hmmm, 225MW(electric) let's see, what other nuclear power plants are in the same output range..
Assuming 30% efficiency.. 225MWh(e)/3 *10 == 750MWh Thermal.
Also with regards to SNR you can't increase S, at least not in the US. Power limits are set by the FCC. Never mind any technical problems (and there are many with trying to use powerful transmissions) you just aren't allowed to do so for cell networks.
There is a way to increase apparent S and reduce N simultaneously by using a directional antenna , thus increasing effective cell network capacity several fold by vectoring rf signals.
My dedicated t-mobile hotspot, (like many others), has a provision for an external antenna. I would gladly connect it up to a directional external antenna, increasing my throughput and reducing spectrum utilization. But the current downfall of that solution is that T-mobile charges substantially more for the hotspot service and requires a 2nd monthly subscription, thus negating any advantage for me. Instead, I'll continue to use an ordinary tethered smart phone for most of my data requirements.
Just because you don't see someone drop dead in front of you from additional radiation exposure, doesn't mean it isn't happening. This accident has trimmed several months, maybe a year off of lifespan off of everybody in North America. The Japanese may loose several years of average lifespan. Most of the damage won't be in the form of cancer, it will show up in hundreds of different manifestations, organ damage, genetic damage, etc.
To me, that is far too high a price to pay for so-called cheap nuclear power.
Re:The technology created of OS/2 lives on in Wind
on
25 Years of IBM's OS/2
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· Score: 1
Not really, the stress tests did so much more, they actually validated the data/contents of video/memory/math computations/files/etc. (I.E. They checked for any unexpected data corruption.)
For example the display stress test component, had a virtual driver(written by me) to emulate the all VGA OS calls, it was run in parallel with the actual hardware, periodically the virtual image was compared with the actual hardware. (note: That particular component stress test, found a flaw in a respin of VGA chip, forcing a 9 month delay in VGA chip production.)
Lastly, this stress methodology predates the fuzz testing by several years.
The technology created of OS/2 lives on in Windows
on
25 Years of IBM's OS/2
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I remember it well, I was tasked with a number of OS/2 projects. Recoding MS's writelog function, making it asynchronous (non-blocking), creating the (AT) VGA driver, creating (AT) ST506 driver, and the biggest challenge ever, I was tasked with creating the final quality control steps/code/testing methodology.
I knew the final QC phase would be huge, an almost impossible challenge, since the Microsoft's core staff was mostly Recent College Grads who would take many of inappropriate shortcuts. Thus it would take something extraordinary to beat their code into something useful.
If I had failed, I suspect the micro computer industry would have been stuck in a dark age for at least a decade, maybe more.
The biggest hurtle was there would be no way to fully test all combinations of system functions, our SUN would burn out first(billions of years). Instead of attempting the impossible, I did the next best thing.
I created a series of revolutionary stress tests for that project. The component programs were a series if self checking programs which used out of phase pseudo random number generators. The resulting (re-creatable) data patterns were used for both the function parameters and content, and the longer they executed, the greater the testing coverage.
Long story short.. The first release of OS/2 (86) never saw the light of day.. It couldn't even pass the individual component stress tests, let alone dozens of them in combination, all controlled by my screen manager. Sloppy coding techniques and shortcuts had forced MS coders to go back to drawing board and start over from scratch.
Net result, those stress tests uncovered many flaws, including hardware problems, and major software issues, some of which were carry overs from PC/MS/DOS. They were discovered and fixed, some of them were folded back into next release PC/MS/DOS, 4.0. Thus making DOS based PC's useful for large databases for the very first time.
In the end, the code, the methodology I created, was so far ahead of everything else they quickly took over all other forms of OS testing at both IBM and MS. And it lives on to this day, Microsoft has ten's of thousands people creating/running modern permutations of those 24hr stress tests I pioneered for the birth of OS2, using it to find and fix bugs in all versions of windows.
"However, this is an invasion of privacy and also is requiring the employee to violate another contract via coercion (penalty is the loss of their job if they don't).
It's called Extortion/Coercion, and I think this should be a test case for both criminal and civil prosecution. I have successfully made the argument before UI review board, that employment should not require an employee be a willing victim at the hands of an employer/supervisor.
Hmm, It looks like the clock isn't as accurate as claimed..
It's based on measuring a single atom of Th229 which has a half life of 7340 years.. So every so often your new fancy ion clock is going to randomly drop dead. (Unless you have multiple units and are comparing the outputs..) Then you need to isolate a steady supply of ionized Th-229 (which is a decay product from U-233, 160KY) to repair the dead modules.
Thorium by itself is not fissile. You need a large amounts, (5-10 years worth), of U-235, preferably Pu-239, whose fission supplies the necessary neutron flux needed to breed additional fuel.
To date, any experiments with thorium breeding has been in conventional thermal reactors were a small portion(less than 5%) of the U-238 was replaced with Th-232. Thus the entire concept of the LFTR is an untested/unworkable pipe dream.
This was the law from 1971 to 2007.. no mention of plane's or aircraft. Thus none of our currently operating reactors could survive an impact without melting down.
P.S. As the reactors in Fukushima demonstrated, the pilots don't even have to target the reactor building to achieve their objective.
More like killed at least a million, and will kill many millions more. We now have several large offlimits zones, (otherwise many more people would suffer and die).
And that's not the worst case. When modern warfare break outs it will kill billions and contaminate the northern hemisphere's food chain for 600 years..
Bill Gates is a megalomaniac and
probably insane (advocating mass murder).
Besides the occasional disaster, man
made or otherwise, there will always be organized warfare. If we seen anything, these plants are fragile, easy to destroy targets.
The amount of radionuclides stored in
each of these nuclear power plants is enough to make even the largest nuclear weapons ever built look like pop-guns. Once the contents are spread thoughout the country side it will be many centuries before a long
lived mammals (like humans) can repopulate the affected region.
Oh, the rich have a plan in case of another World War. They will all fly down to Southern hemisphere,
while anything larger than a house cat left behind in the Northern Hemisphere will suffer horrible, unspeakable, ugly deaths, and deformities.
Some important references and obscure
but very important observations/calculations you may have missed.
Bill Gates is a megalomaniac and
probably insane (advocating mas murder).
Besides the occasional disaster, man
made or otherwise, there will always be organized warfare. If we seen anything, these plants are fragile, easy destroy targets.
The amount of radionuclides stored in
each of these nuclear power plants is enough to make even the largest nuclear weapons ever built look like pop-guns. Once the contents are spread thoughout the country side it will be many centuries before a long
lived mammals (like humans) can repopulate the affected region.
Oh, the rich have a plan in case of another World War. They will all fly down to Southern hemisphere,
while anything larger than a house cat left behind in the Northern Hemisphere will suffer horrible, unspeakable, ugly deaths, and deformities.
Some important references and obscure
but very important observations/calculations you may have missed.
The effect of the solar flare cycle signal on earth's average temperature is already being swamped by an order of magnitude by mankind's fossil fuelish addiction.
So don't expect any respite by quiescent sun, it's going to get hot, real hot, and the first thing to go is dependable crop yields. Mass starvation is already written in the cards..
";It is very inefficient (25%)
so you now need 4x the capacity";
Obviously you're not an engineer,
"By 1933 reversible pump-turbines
with motor-generators were available. Adjustable speed machines are now being used to improve efficiency. Pumped hydro is available at almost any scale with discharge times ranging from several hours to a
few days. Their
efficiency is in the 70% to 85% range. "
Now, one must ask... why would a person
make such a wild claim??
First observation... Thorium reactor... No such animal... Thorium isn't a neutron source and doesn't fission.
One needs a large amount(1000's of kg) of Pu and/or 2x that amount in U-235, after 6 or 7 years you might produced enough U-233 from Th-232 to sustain the reaction.
"For the lowest emission rate, sea
levels are expected torise around 1 metre by 2100. For the
higher emission scenario, which is where we're currently tracking,
sea level rise by 2100 is around 1.4 metres. "
And it gets
worse for the centuries beyond 2100. 2100-2199 ~+3 meters, and
2200-2299 ~+5 meters.. Needless to say.. but the the The
Coast Is Toast: Take the Money and Run..
PS.. For you mathematically challenged
deniers, one(1) meter is 39.37 inches..
Then file for unemployment with Indiana Department of workforce development. That will get you $390/week for upwards of a year. P.S. You'll need to look for new gainful employment.
If the company contests your claim. Be sure to file an answer.
State that in the normal coarse of business, your name was used for the technical contact the companies domain registration(requires a real person).
If this is not the case, then insider info was likely used to frame you (former coworker, HR, supervisor, outsourcer, etc). Either way the doctrine of Respondeat superior applies (Employer is responsible for paying your legal costs if your prevail).
A domain typo squatter has used a portion of that information in setting up a fake website for criminal purposes. Employer has instead terminated your employment for another unknown person(s) suspected criminal activity.
P.S. Even if you can't track the domain registration. One should be able to track the money trail of the fake/typo website. Obviously they're in this business for profit.
Don't forget to file a criminal complaint with the U.S. Secret service.
I suggest you do some research on the subject of radiation exposure and it's effects. What types of radiation was monitored at TMI and why was it flawed?
Fortunately the metrics of health verses radiation exposure have changed significantly over the decades to reflect something closer to reality.
I.E. Were no longer looking for a few specific forms of cancer. Besides cancer, still births, birth defects, organ impairments (heart, lungs, kidney, liver, etc)... The list goes on and on..
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Any work published by UNSCEAR, a branch of the IAEA should be treated as trash..
I quote a few paragraphs from an op-ed written by Joe Giambone, since I couldn't express my disgust any better than he has done already, Nuclear Nightmare Worsens - By Joe Giambrone (22/6/11)
"Send in the Clowns
The United Nations has already ramped up its UNSCEAR ostrich team. Its chairman Wolfgang Weiss was asked what health effects Japan would suffer, after the numerous Terabequerels discharged. Weiss replied, "From what I know now, nothing, because levels are so low."
Weiss and UNSCEAR have discredited themselves before they even got started. Their goal is to collect reams of data in the first two years, long before the cancers begin to metastasize, then claim victory for the atom and move on.
Weiss openly lied when he said, "The only proven effect after Chernobyl was thyroid cancer in children." Anyone who's even glanced at the Chernobyl disaster knows numerous people died, including thousands of "liquidators" the Soviet conscripts who cleaned up the mess. Independent research flies in the face of the UN cover-ups and places mortality at approximately one million casualties (Yablokov, 2009).
Weiss, the current UNSCEAR head, claimed:
"In Fukushima, the people were evacuated before any [radioactive] release took place..." (Reuters)
What? Another lie! What nonsense is this man floating as trial balloons? Nothing of the sort happened. Hundreds of thousands are still there, now, living in contaminated regions blanketed with Cesium 137.
Have no illusions about UNSCEAR and the IAEA. It is their job to make this go away, pretend all is fine. Cancers can take decades to form, and cancers are not counted by UNSCEAR, excepting the glaringly undeniable childhood thyroid variety. Here's an aside: If UNSCEAR admits that radiation releases cause thyroid cancers, is it not at least conceivable to them that the absorbed radiation is also causing other illnesses as well?
Numerous other maladies: birth defects, stillbirths, heart, lung, brain, organ diseases will certainly not be counted, and their victims will be ignored by the UN agencies. That means they never happened, right?
UNSCEAR and IAEA have turned science on its head with a logical fallacy that seems to pass unnoticed in the media. They claim that because there are "no biomarkers specific to radiation, it is not possible to state scientifically that radiation caused a particular cancer in an individual." (UNSCEAR, 2008) And they use this as some kind of insane proof that the cancers were not caused by radiation.
The UN then prepares faulty, fraudulent "death toll" counts that omit cancers when there is no scientific basis for omitting them. The "no biomarkers" logic cannot be used to rule out that radiation caused cancers: it's then an unknown. Radiation doesn't just magically lose its carcinogenic properties because of a faulty screening condition that disqualifies people from being counted. These are gradeschool shenanigans gone global."
"but the quality of your lines do not tend to change based time of day"
Are you kidding??Have you never heard of NEXT and FEXT (Near/Far End Cross Talk). DSL Line conditions change all the time, it's function of how may xDSL users are activity using separate wire pairs in the same cable bundles.
P.S. I recently dumped my ten+ year old DSL line, because it had been significantly degraded by some double pair Uverse (vDSL) installs just down the street.
Initially, I had a solid 1.5Mb down for about 5 years, but as the number of the AT&T aDSL deployments increased my rates dropped, A few years ago, AT&T dug up the underground wire taps at each pole and removed all the bridge taps, that improved my downstream S/N by 8db and restored my 1.5 Mbit/sec download speeds.
But in the end.. It was At&t's Uverse (vDSL) double pair deployments that finished off my long running DSL service. Even with Covad's max noise profile settings, FEC+Interleave @928K down, there was a reoccurring daily pattern, where my aDSL2+ modem would train down to 384K down with very high error rates.
"Would these locations prefer a windmill farm or coal fired plant. "
Wind farms are very efficient, converting 85 to 93% of the wind energy directly to electricity. Now compare that to a conventional thermal power plant.
The 60 to 65% waste Heat from 600MW(e) coal plant would be more enough to double the effective average solar flux (3 to 4kWh/m^2/day) over an area of 8 to 9 square kilometers. Note: Not including the indirect effects of CO2 and soot emissions, a doubling the effective solar flux is more than enough to transform the affected area into desert.
If one were to spread out that excess waste energy to match a typical 1 to 2C AGW forcing(1W/m^2) (0.72C by this study). It would work out to an 1 watt thermal forcing over an area of 900 to 1,114 km^2.
It should be obvious to all, that putting up some wind turbines is by far the most environmentally friendly solution to our energy needs.
"It's a shame it has to be dismantled."
Agreed.. I would have loved to spent some time behind the controls of this baby, see 16 page article on Sea Shadow layout/design, interior photos and other goodies
The companion Huges built Mining Barge(HMB-1), displacement floating dry dock, (with a retractable roof no less), should have kept the Sea Shadow in great shape while it was in storage.
"Theoreticaly, the worse failure modes are less likely, even when weighted by produced power. And, also theoreticaly, they should reduce faster than with big sized reactors."
Hmmm, 225MW(electric) let's see, what other nuclear power plants are in the same output range.. Assuming 30% efficiency.. 225MWh(e) /3 *10 == 750MWh Thermal.
Oh were did I see similar numbers recently?? FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI-2 760MWh thermal, FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI-3 760MWh thermal
Ring a bell anyone?? There goes the safe size argument right out the window,.
Also with regards to SNR you can't increase S, at least not in the US. Power limits are set by the FCC. Never mind any technical problems (and there are many with trying to use powerful transmissions) you just aren't allowed to do so for cell networks.
There is a way to increase apparent S and reduce N simultaneously by using a directional antenna , thus increasing effective cell network capacity several fold by vectoring rf signals.
My dedicated t-mobile hotspot, (like many others), has a provision for an external antenna. I would gladly connect it up to a directional external antenna, increasing my throughput and reducing spectrum utilization. But the current downfall of that solution is that T-mobile charges substantially more for the hotspot service and requires a 2nd monthly subscription, thus negating any advantage for me. Instead, I'll continue to use an ordinary tethered smart phone for most of my data requirements.
Incorrect, I suspect that millions of people will die early deaths because of the Fukishima meltdowns, just like Chernobyl.
Northwest sees 35% infant mortality spike post-Fukushima
Study: Fukushima Radiation Has Already Killed 14,000 Americans"
Just because you don't see someone drop dead in front of you from additional radiation exposure, doesn't mean it isn't happening. This accident has trimmed several months, maybe a year off of lifespan off of everybody in North America. The Japanese may loose several years of average lifespan. Most of the damage won't be in the form of cancer, it will show up in hundreds of different manifestations, organ damage, genetic damage, etc.
To me, that is far too high a price to pay for so-called cheap nuclear power.
Not really, the stress tests did so much more, they actually validated the data/contents of video/memory/math computations/files/etc. (I.E. They checked for any unexpected data corruption.)
For example the display stress test component, had a virtual driver(written by me) to emulate the all VGA OS calls, it was run in parallel with the actual hardware, periodically the virtual image was compared with the actual hardware. (note: That particular component stress test, found a flaw in a respin of VGA chip, forcing a 9 month delay in VGA chip production.)
Lastly, this stress methodology predates the fuzz testing by several years.
I remember it well, I was tasked with a number of OS/2 projects. Recoding MS's writelog function, making it asynchronous (non-blocking), creating the (AT) VGA driver, creating (AT) ST506 driver, and the biggest challenge ever, I was tasked with creating the final quality control steps/code/testing methodology.
I knew the final QC phase would be huge, an almost impossible challenge, since the Microsoft's core staff was mostly Recent College Grads who would take many of inappropriate shortcuts. Thus it would take something extraordinary to beat their code into something useful.
If I had failed, I suspect the micro computer industry would have been stuck in a dark age for at least a decade, maybe more.
The biggest hurtle was there would be no way to fully test all combinations of system functions, our SUN would burn out first(billions of years). Instead of attempting the impossible, I did the next best thing.
I created a series of revolutionary stress tests for that project. The component programs were a series if self checking programs which used out of phase pseudo random number generators. The resulting (re-creatable) data patterns were used for both the function parameters and content, and the longer they executed, the greater the testing coverage.
Long story short.. The first release of OS/2 (86) never saw the light of day.. It couldn't even pass the individual component stress tests, let alone dozens of them in combination, all controlled by my screen manager. Sloppy coding techniques and shortcuts had forced MS coders to go back to drawing board and start over from scratch.
Net result, those stress tests uncovered many flaws, including hardware problems, and major software issues, some of which were carry overs from PC/MS/DOS. They were discovered and fixed, some of them were folded back into next release PC/MS/DOS, 4.0. Thus making DOS based PC's useful for large databases for the very first time.
In the end, the code, the methodology I created, was so far ahead of everything else they quickly took over all other forms of OS testing at both IBM and MS. And it lives on to this day, Microsoft has ten's of thousands people creating/running modern permutations of those 24hr stress tests I pioneered for the birth of OS2, using it to find and fix bugs in all versions of windows.
"However, this is an invasion of privacy and also is requiring the employee to violate another contract via coercion (penalty is the loss of their job if they don't).
It's called Extortion/Coercion, and I think this should be a test case for both criminal and civil prosecution. I have successfully made the argument before UI review board, that employment should not require an employee be a willing victim at the hands of an employer/supervisor.
Hmm, It looks like the clock isn't as accurate as claimed..
It's based on measuring a single atom of Th229 which has a half life of 7340 years.. So every so often your new fancy ion clock is going to randomly drop dead. (Unless you have multiple units and are comparing the outputs..) Then you need to isolate a steady supply of ionized Th-229 (which is a decay product from U-233, 160KY) to repair the dead modules.
The first thing a defendant's lawyer is going to do is subpoena a true copy of the originals. Then the cat will be out of the BAG for sure.
Thorium by itself is not fissile. You need a large amounts, (5-10 years worth), of U-235, preferably Pu-239, whose fission supplies the necessary neutron flux needed to breed additional fuel.
Their was NO THORIUM in that tiny prototype Pu/U fueled, air cooled 7.4 MWth, molten salt reactor .
To date, any experiments with thorium breeding has been in conventional thermal reactors were a small portion(less than 5%) of the U-238 was replaced with Th-232. Thus the entire concept of the LFTR is an untested/unworkable pipe dream.
This was the law from 1971 to 2007.. no mention of plane's or aircraft. Thus none of our currently operating reactors could survive an impact without melting down.
P.S. As the reactors in Fukushima demonstrated, the pilots don't even have to target the reactor building to achieve their objective.
.
"which killed only a handful of people. "
More like killed at least a million, and will kill many millions more. We now have several large offlimits zones, (otherwise many more people would suffer and die).
And that's not the worst case. When modern warfare break outs it will kill billions and contaminate the northern hemisphere's food chain for 600 years..
Bill Gates is a megalomaniac and probably insane (advocating mass murder).
Besides the occasional disaster, man made or otherwise, there will always be organized warfare. If we seen anything, these plants are fragile, easy to destroy targets.
The amount of radionuclides stored in each of these nuclear power plants is enough to make even the largest nuclear weapons ever built look like pop-guns. Once the contents are spread thoughout the country side it will be many centuries before a long lived mammals (like humans) can repopulate the affected region.
Oh, the rich have a plan in case of another World War. They will all fly down to Southern hemisphere, while anything larger than a house cat left behind in the Northern Hemisphere will suffer horrible, unspeakable, ugly deaths, and deformities.
Some important references and obscure but very important observations/calculations you may have missed.
Fukushima: Prestigious doctor: US nuclear 'Baby valley of death,' Millions to die
Bioconstration of radioactive I-131 in thyriod gland
Relative radioactivity of Cs-137 verses natural potassium (K-39, K-40, K-41)
Let's not forget.. LFTR, or Thorium only reactors don't exist, nor will they ever exist.
Bill Gates is a megalomaniac and probably insane (advocating mas murder).
Besides the occasional disaster, man made or otherwise, there will always be organized warfare. If we seen anything, these plants are fragile, easy destroy targets.
The amount of radionuclides stored in each of these nuclear power plants is enough to make even the largest nuclear weapons ever built look like pop-guns. Once the contents are spread thoughout the country side it will be many centuries before a long lived mammals (like humans) can repopulate the affected region.
Oh, the rich have a plan in case of another World War. They will all fly down to Southern hemisphere, while anything larger than a house cat left behind in the Northern Hemisphere will suffer horrible, unspeakable, ugly deaths, and deformities.
Some important references and obscure but very important observations/calculations you may have missed.
Fukushima: Prestigious doctor: US nuclear 'Baby valley of death,' Millions to die
Bioconstration of radioactive I-131 in thyriod gland
Relative radioactivity of Cs-137 verses natural potassium (K-39, K-40, K-41)
Let's not forget.. LFTR, or Thorium only reactors don't exist, nor will they ever exist.
The effect of the solar flare cycle signal on earth's average temperature is already being swamped by an order of magnitude by mankind's fossil fuelish addiction.
So don't expect any respite by quiescent sun, it's going to get hot, real hot, and the first thing to go is dependable crop yields. Mass starvation is already written in the cards..
Obviously you're not an engineer,
"By 1933 reversible pump-turbines with motor-generators were available. Adjustable speed machines are now being used to improve efficiency. Pumped hydro is available at almost any scale with discharge times ranging from several hours to a few days. Their efficiency is in the 70% to 85% range. "
Now, one must ask... why would a person make such a wild claim??
table of large pumped hydro facilities around the world..
First observation... Thorium reactor... No such animal... Thorium isn't a neutron source and doesn't fission.
One needs a large amount(1000's of kg) of Pu and/or 2x that amount in U-235, after 6 or 7 years you might produced enough U-233 from Th-232 to sustain the reaction.
"The worse prediction are for a sea level rise of an inch or so over a 100 years. "
How much will sea levels rise in the 21st Century?
"For the lowest emission rate, sea levels are expected torise around 1 metre by 2100. For the higher emission scenario, which is where we're currently tracking, sea level rise by 2100 is around 1.4 metres. "
And it gets worse for the centuries beyond 2100. 2100-2199 ~+3 meters, and 2200-2299 ~+5 meters.. ..
Needless to say.. but the the The Coast Is Toast: Take the Money and Run
PS.. For you mathematically challenged deniers, one(1) meter is 39.37 inches..
Then file for unemployment with Indiana Department of workforce development. That will get you $390/week for upwards of a year. P.S. You'll need to look for new gainful employment.
If the company contests your claim. Be sure to file an answer.
State that in the normal coarse of business, your name was used for the technical contact the companies domain registration(requires a real person).
If this is not the case, then insider info was likely used to frame you (former coworker, HR, supervisor, outsourcer, etc). Either way the doctrine of Respondeat superior applies (Employer is responsible for paying your legal costs if your prevail).
A domain typo squatter has used a portion of that information in setting up a fake website for criminal purposes. Employer has instead terminated your employment for another unknown person(s) suspected criminal activity.
P.S. Even if you can't track the domain registration. One should be able to track the money trail of the fake/typo website. Obviously they're in this business for profit.
Don't forget to file a criminal complaint with the U.S. Secret service.
I suggest you do some research on the subject of radiation exposure and it's effects.
What types of radiation was monitored at TMI and why was it flawed?
Fortunately the metrics of health verses radiation exposure have changed significantly over the decades to reflect something closer to reality.
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11340
"Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation May Cause Harm"
I.E. Were no longer looking for a few specific forms of cancer. Besides cancer, still births, birth defects, organ impairments (heart, lungs, kidney, liver, etc)... The list goes on and on..
You call a cite from IAEA (promotes nucler power, non-peer reviewed) a properly vetted source.... NOT!!!