the reactor heats pressurized water in the primary loop
the hot pressurized water in the primary loop heats the very pure treated water in the secondary loop and boils it,
the cooler primary loop water returns to the reactor for reheating
the high pressure steam in the secondary loop propels the turbine to make the alternator turn,
the turbine exhaust consisting of steam is piped into the condensers inside the cooling tower,
external water is sprayed on the hot condenser pipe creating steam, which is lighter than air,
the rising steam creates a slight vacuum inside the cooling tower that draws in large amounts of air to further cool the condensers.
the secondary loop water is returned to be reheated
So anything you can see has 3 degrees of separation from the reactor
Sigh I guess it came across wrong, I was getting at how worried people are over radiation.
I'm well aware of how it works, I operated a 4000Mw reactor for many years, we didn't use cooling towers, our mission was to produce Plutonium our steam went to dump conditioners (imagine large radiators who's coils carried cold water) when the steam hit those they condensed into water, and back through the cycle to cool down the primary loop.
Just now I was out playing with the dog when I noticed the only clouds in the sky were from those freaking cooling towers. Some ~15 miles away.
We have a reactor who's steam can be seen for many miles being emitted from the cooling towers that caused a lot of concern over the contamination it was spreading from many people, for the first few years.
So much ignorance. smh.
Care to explain how cooling tower emission would be contaminated?
It would be the primary mixing with the secondary loop which is where the emissions come from, but there are safe guards in place, there is no contamination just worried people.
However the steam coming out of the cooling towers should never have been in contact with radioactive material. And: plenty of coal plants have cooling towers, too.
It never was just a lot of people with a misconception.
That steam is from the secondary loop and should never come in contact with the primary water which is contaminated, there are safeguards in place.
In this area we had 5 reactors being built, one day they just called a halt to them. I had a friend who was studying to be a reactor operator who was told to go home, you haven't a job anymore, just one of the thousands told the same thing.
In January 1982, the WPPSS board stopped construction on Plants 4 and 5 when total cost for all the plants was projected to exceed $24 billion. Because these plants generated no power and brought in no money, the system was forced to default on $2.25 billion in bonds. This meant that the member utilities, and ultimately the rate payers, were obligated to pay back the borrowed money. In some small towns where unemployment due to the recession was already high, this amounted to more than $12,000 per customer. http://www.historylink.org/Fil...
And what else do you think is coming out of those cooling towers... hint: evaporated water.
We have a reactor who's steam can be seen for many miles being emitted from the cooling towers that caused a lot of concern over the contamination it was spreading from many people, for the first few years.
Talking to your TV to control it is already covered in the Samsung TOS, they keep everything said, typed, channels watched and this is for your benefit as it helps speech recognition and the TV to better know what your saying or wish to do; and it hasn't turned out well.
According to the copyright mafia, if you make it easy to violate their copyright then it's your fault.
The case is well prepared, on page 6 of the motion are previous cases (past practice, normally called Precedence ) that back their claim https://www.documentcloud.org/...
Network World article: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."
I was (am?) a "Windows Insider", I was able to download Win10 6 months before it's release, I read the ToS which said the same thing, they would have control over hard drives, Web Cams and if it wasn't covered by name the " and anything attached to the computer" clause covered it.
I refused to install Win10 under those conditions, and it sat until it disappeared - making no claims, just I don't delete anything I've downloaded; they become outdated and worthless but keep them I do.
That's why its so easy to infect a Windows system. Open holes every where you look!;-)
April 4th 2015 a Microsoft update installed GWX which then recorded 24 hours of a persons computer usage then sent it off to a third party all within 26 hours of being installed. It took all the AV programs cooperation to allow it out (my guess, as one should of stopped a strange file from a strange program, the only exception is Windows Firewall).
I caught it, and while reported it to any that would listen, it was too late, yet there were three more config.cnf files (actions) still left. Apparently I'm the only person in the world with the file that was to of been sent, and a hard sell - my hosts file blocked it from leaving.
That was the point I quit Windows and am now running Linux Mint, and it's a fine system, no regrets.
I still have Win7 installed but I don't allow it to call out, I go as far as pulling the network cable when booting into it. Playing games will require a different strategy.
If you didn't use PSN, why did you apply the update that removed OtherOS?
One couldn't access the the PS3, it was locked down (while PSN was blocked, it was always connected to the Internet). There was one person pleading to the rest of us that he could hack the update and all future updates maintaining the PS3's Linux ability, and he did just that yet 2 months after the update in question was required. He continued for a few updates but the few people who waited for him or in my case found it out too late - whatever, quit hacking the ROM after the third update.
It was a HOSTS file block, another site can pop up and one not be aware of it until it causes problems. https://robtex.com/ wasn't available at the time (it might of helped).
Your aware that an installed Linux hacked the PS3, they just couldn't have that. Taking the update seriously, while still promoting PS3's Linux ability.
Given that his death was overshadowed in the public by the passing of Steve Jobs just a week earlier, I think he deserves a second death.
One thing many would want is to be remembered long after their death, Google gave Dennis Ritchie not only that honor but brought back Dennis Ritchie as a person of great importance.
If they are being honest in their statement, then I'm impressed to see a company in this day and age take such steps. However the cynical side of me wonders if they knew/know what's happening and they're attempting damage control until they figure out what to do next.
I followed the links (reddit.com) they have a good thing going, and I can see major damage control coming into play. Many people really like the bars and I'm sure they'd hate to see that change.
It appears to of only been one bad batch 7july(something), I'm still not sure if it's just a vit bar or an energy bar of some sort. An energy bar is in the lead so far.
Yet if you've ever had food poisoning, you do go out of your way to prevent it from happening again. I've had it - once.
...what the worst possible outcome is for a business that has to operate under net neutrality rules that severely favor the consumer? The most I can come up with is limited investment possibilities.
I've read the Net Neutrality Act (skipping the cell phone entries), what they claim to of acted on (all sites treated equally) is in black and white already. The only servers allowed to adjust broadband traffic are edge servers.
What it would take to prove I accessed the PSN other than my Email address would take much more than the $9 refund; I blocked PSN - they had no reason to know when I was on-line.
I'm also on my second PS3 (Backward comparable) system, it's just beating my head against a wall for pennies.
I know a couple people who have their regular adsl account and hold on to their old 56K modem account to keep their @pnc.com.au email address.
While not as Kool, I still have my hotmail.com account. I had it being forwarded to Gmail; when one day I couldn't access hotmail.com anymore, nor have I since. Live.com was suggested, as were others but I've held on. My sister's wide eyed surprised reply "you have a hotmail account!" made it worth it.
And Yahoo, I quit my account last week, and I don't think I ever used their email, they were just the search engine of choice at the time I got my account
So what is the real culprit here? I thought it could have been from using the wrong charging IC or someone in the battery department changing the chemistry and not telling the EEs. But they are catching fire without charging.
Lithium chemistry batteries are finicky little bastards. They are not just dangerous from over-charging (or charging too fast), but also from over-discharging and discharging too rapidly. If they are drawing 1A from a battery that is only designed to handle 1/2A, or worse, if their control circuitry allows the battery to fall below a minimum voltage, then the batteries can go into runaway thermal overload.
My Samsung S5 came with a 2A charger.
Thought at first that was the reason as well, charging too fast.
>> Why do I have to enter my name and e-mail address, if they're free?
said the user that entered their email address to get a "free" userid for posting on slashdot:-)
ToS says: You agree that by using the site, you consent to the collection and use of this information in accordance with our privacy policy.
Privacy Policy: complies with the U.S. — EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S. — Swiss Safe Harbor Framework set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection,
I used an Email address that forwards to me, but did get some good books and in a.PDF format at that.
Mine was pretty much used a decade ago as an account to sign up for other things that required an email address. Hadn't looked at it in at least 5 years, and deleted it only a few months ago because I thought it probably wasn't good to have this unused account hanging out there.
Re:No no no. (Score:?) You don't need vacuum tubes. That's such a horrible audio myth. They glow in the dark and look nice. Aside from that, they produce more distortion, more noise, use more power, are more fragile, and have shorter lifetimes than solid state electronics. They do not sound better, given $X spent on whatever, presuming some reasonable amount of tech is returned per dollar.
I'm one of them, analog systems treat music very well, you get the full range (if recorded in analog), Digital systems use sampling, so no matter the sampling rate the unsampled is interpolated.
They do use the power, yet supplied a good sine wave and filtered you have a very fine system, but the question of making a vacuum tube doesn't bode well for the final output quality. Nor safety procedures that need be followed such as grounding http://diyaudioprojects.com/Te... [diyaudioprojects.com] which also plays an important factor in the filtering of the output.
Cost? it's unimportant for this type of project:)
I don't know the OP's skills so many considerations.
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So anything you can see has 3 degrees of separation from the reactor
Sigh I guess it came across wrong, I was getting at how worried people are over radiation.
I'm well aware of how it works, I operated a 4000Mw reactor for many years, we didn't use cooling towers, our mission was to produce Plutonium our steam went to dump conditioners (imagine large radiators who's coils carried cold water) when the steam hit those they condensed into water, and back through the cycle to cool down the primary loop.
Just now I was out playing with the dog when I noticed the only clouds in the sky were from those freaking cooling towers. Some ~15 miles away.
We have a reactor who's steam can be seen for many miles being emitted from the cooling towers that caused a lot of concern over the contamination it was spreading from many people, for the first few years.
So much ignorance. smh.
Care to explain how cooling tower emission would be contaminated?
It would be the primary mixing with the secondary loop which is where the emissions come from, but there are safe guards in place, there is no contamination just worried people.
However the steam coming out of the cooling towers should never have been in contact with radioactive material. And: plenty of coal plants have cooling towers, too.
It never was just a lot of people with a misconception.
That steam is from the secondary loop and should never come in contact with the primary water which is contaminated, there are safeguards in place.
In this area we had 5 reactors being built, one day they just called a halt to them. I had a friend who was studying to be a reactor operator who was told to go home, you haven't a job anymore, just one of the thousands told the same thing.
In January 1982, the WPPSS board stopped construction on Plants 4 and 5 when total cost for all the plants was projected to exceed $24 billion. Because these plants generated no power and brought in no money, the system was forced to default on $2.25 billion in bonds. This meant that the member utilities, and ultimately the rate payers, were obligated to pay back the borrowed money. In some small towns where unemployment due to the recession was already high, this amounted to more than $12,000 per customer. http://www.historylink.org/Fil...
At the time the largest default in the U.S.
And what else do you think is coming out of those cooling towers... hint: evaporated water.
We have a reactor who's steam can be seen for many miles being emitted from the cooling towers that caused a lot of concern over the contamination it was spreading from many people, for the first few years.
It's dumb for another reason.
Talking to your TV to control it is already covered in the Samsung TOS, they keep everything said, typed, channels watched and this is for your benefit as it helps speech recognition and the TV to better know what your saying or wish to do; and it hasn't turned out well.
Samsung Warns Customers To Think Twice About What They Say Near Smart TVs: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Samsung SmartTV Customers Warned Personal Conversations May Be Recorded: https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Samsung Says Their TVs Aren't Really Spying On You: https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
According to the copyright mafia, if you make it easy to violate their copyright then it's your fault.
The case is well prepared, on page 6 of the motion are previous cases (past practice, normally called Precedence ) that back their claim https://www.documentcloud.org/...
Network World
article:
Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service
agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."
I was (am?) a "Windows Insider", I was able to download Win10 6 months before it's release, I read the ToS which said the same thing, they would have control over hard drives, Web Cams and if it wasn't covered by name the " and anything attached to the computer" clause covered it.
I refused to install Win10 under those conditions, and it sat until it disappeared - making no claims, just I don't delete anything I've downloaded; they become outdated and worthless but keep them I do.
That's why its so easy to infect a Windows system. Open holes every where you look! ;-)
April 4th 2015 a Microsoft update installed GWX which then recorded 24 hours of a persons computer usage then sent it off to a third party all within 26 hours of being installed. It took all the AV programs cooperation to allow it out (my guess, as one should of stopped a strange file from a strange program, the only exception is Windows Firewall).
I caught it, and while reported it to any that would listen, it was too late, yet there were three more config.cnf files (actions) still left.
Apparently I'm the only person in the world with the file that was to of been sent, and a hard sell - my hosts file blocked it from leaving.
That was the point I quit Windows and am now running Linux Mint, and it's a fine system, no regrets.
I still have Win7 installed but I don't allow it to call out, I go as far as pulling the network cable when booting into it. Playing games will require a different strategy.
Samsung are already taking a massive financial hit over the failure of the Note 7, so there's no punitive sense in bringing this suit.
Reading the summery this lawsuit it's far from frivolous, it has real merit.
There are many different payment plans, some rather spendy -while many of them involved paying off the S7 included in the monthly charges.
Unlike the PS3 rebate, it's very easy for these people to prove they did indeed own a S7 and length of time they suffered.
If you didn't use PSN, why did you apply the update that removed OtherOS?
One couldn't access the the PS3, it was locked down (while PSN was blocked, it was always connected to the Internet). There was one person pleading to the rest of us that he could hack the update and all future updates maintaining the PS3's Linux ability, and he did just that yet 2 months after the update in question was required. He continued for a few updates but the few people who waited for him or in my case found it out too late - whatever, quit hacking the ROM after the third update.
It was a HOSTS file block, another site can pop up and one not be aware of it until it causes problems. https://robtex.com/ wasn't available at the time (it might of helped).
Your aware that an installed Linux hacked the PS3, they just couldn't have that. Taking the update seriously, while still promoting PS3's Linux ability.
Given that his death was overshadowed in the public by the passing of Steve Jobs just a week earlier, I think he deserves a second death.
One thing many would want is to be remembered long after their death, Google gave Dennis Ritchie not only that honor but brought back Dennis Ritchie as a person of great importance.
I don't understand this. Can anyone explain this mindset? Under what normal circumstances do you want to eat but not have any flavour?
That would an indication of our entry into 1984,
If they are being honest in their statement, then I'm impressed to see a company in this day and age take such steps. However the cynical side of me wonders if they knew/know what's happening and they're attempting damage control until they figure out what to do next.
I followed the links (reddit.com) they have a good thing going, and I can see major damage control coming into play. Many people really like the bars and I'm sure they'd hate to see that change.
It appears to of only been one bad batch 7july(something), I'm still not sure if it's just a vit bar or an energy bar of some sort. An energy bar is in the lead so far.
Yet if you've ever had food poisoning, you do go out of your way to prevent it from happening again. I've had it - once.
...what the worst possible outcome is for a business that has to operate under net neutrality rules that severely favor the consumer? The most I can come up with is limited investment possibilities.
I've read the Net Neutrality Act (skipping the cell phone entries), what they claim to of acted on (all sites treated equally) is in black and white already. The only servers allowed to adjust broadband traffic are edge servers.
And come on down.
They are going to be hiring some 300 people from this area (Washington state, city).
Temp or not this couldn't hurt many. Me? I'll pass.
What it would take to prove I accessed the PSN other than my Email address would take much more than the $9 refund; I blocked PSN - they had no reason to know when I was on-line.
I'm also on my second PS3 (Backward comparable) system, it's just beating my head against a wall for pennies.
I know a couple people who have their regular adsl account and hold on to their old 56K modem account to keep their @pnc.com.au email address.
While not as Kool, I still have my hotmail.com account. I had it being forwarded to Gmail; when one day I couldn't access hotmail.com anymore, nor have I since. Live.com was suggested, as were others but I've held on. My sister's wide eyed surprised reply "you have a hotmail account!" made it worth it.
And Yahoo, I quit my account last week, and I don't think I ever used their email, they were just the search engine of choice at the time I got my account
So what is the real culprit here? I thought it could have been from using the wrong charging IC or someone in the battery department changing the chemistry and not telling the EEs. But they are catching fire without charging.
Lithium chemistry batteries are finicky little bastards. They are not just dangerous from over-charging (or charging too fast), but also from over-discharging and discharging too rapidly. If they are drawing 1A from a battery that is only designed to handle 1/2A, or worse, if their control circuitry allows the battery to fall below a minimum voltage, then the batteries can go into runaway thermal overload.
My Samsung S5 came with a 2A charger.
Thought at first that was the reason as well, charging too fast.
>> Why do I have to enter my name and e-mail address, if they're free?
said the user that entered their email address to get a "free" userid for posting on slashdot :-)
ToS says: You agree that by using the site, you consent to the collection and use of this information in accordance with our privacy policy.
Privacy Policy: complies with the U.S. — EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S. — Swiss Safe Harbor Framework set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection,
I used an Email address that forwards to me, but did get some good books and in a .PDF format at that.
Mine was pretty much used a decade ago as an account to sign up for other things that required an email address. Hadn't looked at it in at least 5 years, and deleted it only a few months ago because I thought it probably wasn't good to have this unused account hanging out there.
1 billion active Yahoo accounts? Don't think so.
No, mine is gone now -well will be in 91 days.
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I'm attempting to access yahoo.com at the moment having a bit of a problem with my password :)
Took some time and lots of sms traffic but got in, now I'm just going to delete the account.
Is that a british Billion or a USA billion?
Perhaps we can forever rid ourselves of the english language uncertainty over the definition of a billion by renaming the US billion to a "Yahoo".
My best attempt at the 1111 then a slash across the 4 for 5. then again for 10 and on till 500 million.
I'm attempting to access yahoo.com at the moment having a bit of a problem with my password :)
Must of used 1111/
Re:No no no. (Score:?)
You don't need vacuum tubes. That's such a horrible audio myth. They glow in the dark and look nice. Aside from that, they produce more distortion, more noise, use more power, are more fragile, and have shorter lifetimes than solid state electronics. They do not sound better, given $X spent on whatever, presuming some reasonable amount of tech is returned per dollar.
I'm one of them, analog systems treat music very well, you get the full range (if recorded in analog), Digital systems use sampling, so no matter the sampling rate the unsampled is interpolated.
They do use the power, yet supplied a good sine wave and filtered you have a very fine system, but the question of making a vacuum tube doesn't bode well for the final output quality. Nor safety procedures that need be followed such as grounding http://diyaudioprojects.com/Te... [diyaudioprojects.com] which also plays an important factor in the filtering of the output.
Cost? it's unimportant for this type of project :)
I don't know the OP's skills so many considerations.
Not arguing your points; just a different view.
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