That's the number that we went through and calculated in my nuclear fuels class a few years ago for a typical PWR (pressurized water reactor), and a number that was corroborated by Argonne National Lab when speaking of their Integrated Fast Reactor project. In all of the spent fuel pools we have huge amounts of recyclable fuel just asking to be used.
BONUS: By recycling, not only do you reduce the waste to 3% of what's considered waste now, but the stuff that's left only has to be sealed away for about 300 years before it's radioactivity fades to background radiation levels! It's the Plutonium hiding in those fuel bundles that causes people to talk about hiding it for 10,000 years. Why not "burn" it and keep the blackout away?
Oh, and we should revive the IFR that Clinton and a jackass representative from my home state (az) pushed to kill years ago. *THAT* was an awesome concept: a reactor that you couldn't melt down in *any* scenario (liquid sodium cooled, metal fuel (so no mucking about with oxides), fast breeder reactor), a recycling building attached to the reactor building and using mostly electrolysis techniques as opposed to messy chemical processes to recycle the fuel, and as above a reduction in waste levels to 3% of what we're currently stuck with (thanks Jimmy) that even a semi-moron can design a storage cask to last 300 years.
MS's next gen active directory services are startlingly similar to NDS
Only in a very superficial sense. What they tried to do with ADS, to make switch from Domain architecture as painless as possible, was attempt to cast Domains as X.500 OU's (organizational units) and then somewhat automate all of what used to be trust relationships.
I think the biggest problem with this implementation is the size of their Directory's database. I looked at one of the late ADS betas for a org similar to mine (16 node WAN with 56K Frame, 5-10 user objects per node, 8 other objects, each site is an OU, the local server holds a replica of an NDS partition built around the local OU plus a corporate office with approx. 50 user objects and 60-70 assorted other objects). The ADS database was massive comparitively, ranging from approx 12 times the size of the NDS db for each OU to 9 times the size for the root partition. And with all the associated extra traffic across my puny 56K WAN, it just did not sound fun, much less efficient.
Hear, hear! Finally someone who gets the facts and doesn't jump to conclusions based on faulty media reporting. Thank you for the info! And for the life of me, I don't know why your comment is rated 5: Informative, since it's the only fact based non-drivel on this topic.
For anyone bashing each other regarding the whole "Evolution is a theory" thread, Ms. Holloway's comments point out the truth of it. Microevolution is a fact. We've seen it occur too many times in too many multitudes of species to believe otherwise.
BUT, the TOE, that all life evolved via microevolution processes from sludge hasn't been proven and never can be. There are too many holes in the fossil record. There's also no way to *prove* exactly where microevolution got it's most recent start, iow did microevolution start with primordial soup billions of years ago, or with various seeded one-celled critters hundreds of millions of years ago, or Ug, his cousin Oog, and their own pet menagerie 20,000 years ago?
Hell, Creationism and Evolutionism might *both* be right! Who's to say that those random mutations and variations aren't so random after all? Maybe God (or some other deity or ET) not only "plays dice" with the world, but uses microevolution as his tool.
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Hmm. Not right off. I put all that stuff away when I put away the nuclear advocacy in favor of actually getting a job in computers.
ANL has quite a bit of old info on the IFR project. A search scores about 120 hits. Then there's always the American Nuclear Society.
Argonne National Lab
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That's the number that we went through and calculated in my nuclear fuels class a few years ago for a typical PWR (pressurized water reactor), and a number that was corroborated by Argonne National Lab when speaking of their Integrated Fast Reactor project. In all of the spent fuel pools we have huge amounts of recyclable fuel just asking to be used.
BONUS: By recycling, not only do you reduce the waste to 3% of what's considered waste now, but the stuff that's left only has to be sealed away for about 300 years before it's radioactivity fades to background radiation levels! It's the Plutonium hiding in those fuel bundles that causes people to talk about hiding it for 10,000 years. Why not "burn" it and keep the blackout away?
Oh, and we should revive the IFR that Clinton and a jackass representative from my home state (az) pushed to kill years ago. *THAT* was an awesome concept: a reactor that you couldn't melt down in *any* scenario (liquid sodium cooled, metal fuel (so no mucking about with oxides), fast breeder reactor), a recycling building attached to the reactor building and using mostly electrolysis techniques as opposed to messy chemical processes to recycle the fuel, and as above a reduction in waste levels to 3% of what we're currently stuck with (thanks Jimmy) that even a semi-moron can design a storage cask to last 300 years.
MS's next gen active directory services are startlingly similar to NDS
Only in a very superficial sense. What they tried to do with ADS, to make switch from Domain architecture as painless as possible, was attempt to cast Domains as X.500 OU's (organizational units) and then somewhat automate all of what used to be trust relationships.
I think the biggest problem with this implementation is the size of their Directory's database. I looked at one of the late ADS betas for a org similar to mine (16 node WAN with 56K Frame, 5-10 user objects per node, 8 other objects, each site is an OU, the local server holds a replica of an NDS partition built around the local OU plus a corporate office with approx. 50 user objects and 60-70 assorted other objects). The ADS database was massive comparitively, ranging from approx 12 times the size of the NDS db for each OU to 9 times the size for the root partition. And with all the associated extra traffic across my puny 56K WAN, it just did not sound fun, much less efficient.
Hear, hear! Finally someone who gets the facts and doesn't jump to conclusions based on faulty media reporting. Thank you for the info! And for the life of me, I don't know why your comment is rated 5: Informative, since it's the only fact based non-drivel on this topic.
For anyone bashing each other regarding the whole "Evolution is a theory" thread, Ms. Holloway's comments point out the truth of it. Microevolution is a fact. We've seen it occur too many times in too many multitudes of species to believe otherwise.
BUT, the TOE, that all life evolved via microevolution processes from sludge hasn't been proven and never can be. There are too many holes in the fossil record. There's also no way to *prove* exactly where microevolution got it's most recent start, iow did microevolution start with primordial soup billions of years ago, or with various seeded one-celled critters hundreds of millions of years ago, or Ug, his cousin Oog, and their own pet menagerie 20,000 years ago?
Hell, Creationism and Evolutionism might *both* be right! Who's to say that those random mutations and variations aren't so random after all? Maybe God (or some other deity or ET) not only "plays dice" with the world, but uses microevolution as his tool.