You can't call it safe until the waste has been safely managed. Until the waste has been interred someplace sensible, nobody knows how safe nuclear will have turned out to be.
The kind of radioactive waste you're talking about isn't really "waste", since it can be processed to remove the elements that poison fission reactions and then turned back into perfectly functional fuel rods.
And never mind the possibilities inherent in breeder reactors, which can turn U-238 (for which read: most of the uranium in a civilian reactor) and turn it into a useful fissionable.
Alas, the anti-nuke hysterics have pretty much eliminated the possibility of reprocessing spent fuel rods, so we dump a metric-fuckton of usable uranium into cooling tanks, let it sit for decades (or forever, since the anti-nukes have fought tooth and nail to prevent the building of reprocessing facilities), then throw it away
Alpha emitters (like Plutonium) are generally a non-issue for practical purposes. You might get cancer 30 years from now if the stuff is in your lungs. Or not. But no acute effects.
Betas are worse, but I can't think of anything that should be emitting betas in a nuclear facility.
Now gammas are, relatively speaking, killers. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any gamma-emitters associated with nuclear power, but we're not really talking nuclear power here, we're talking nuclear weapon production. Which takes a special kind of reactor, with its own, special, problems....
So, basically, there is no crime that fits the term you used. Thanks, that's what I thought.
Oh, and another thing you've made me curious about - how much of YOUR income goes to helping other people?
And if the amount isn't "everything over cost of food and housing where I live", why not? Isn't it, well, greedy to keep more than a bare subsistence level standard of living, what with the overwhelming majority of the people of the planet making less than you (probably) do?
But it is also illegal as well as immoral to utterly fuck over your fellow citizen with your greed and usually those folks do not go to jail.
I'm curious. What specific law are you talking about here? I can't think of any that make "greed" a crime, but than IANAL. So enlighten me, if you please....
The framer could not have foreseen that a single person could mow people down, literally, with a semi automatic rifle with easy reloading, or even in some case double circular reloading add on.
The framers allowed individuals to own armed ships. You know, with multiple cannon...
And yes, firing a broadside into a crowd generally was much more deadly than any AR-15 clone (did you know that the.223 is illegal to use to hunt deer, as it is unlikely to actually kill the deer reliably?)....
I am sure that looking at porn has caused fewer injuries and deaths than looking at guns.
Y'know, I have never heard of anyone being injured by looking at a gun. I suppose it's possible that someone was looking at his gun while crossing a street and didn't notice the bus that ran him down, but I don't recall ever reading about that happening....
The world is not America, where kids can buy guns but they can't have sex or drink beer. Other countries have much lower ages of consent, at or below 14 years of age.
Hmmm....legal age to buy a gun in the USA - 18. Legal age to buy beer in the USA - 18. Legal age to have sex...wait for it...18.
Though note that there are exceptions to that age limit for sex, depending on the State. There are states that make it illegal for minors to have sex with adults, but not with each other....
Curiously enough, all forms of diabetes are amenable to at least partial treatment with one simple mechanism: stop eating sugar and and easily-digested starches.
Umm, no. Some of us have diabetes because our pancreas is sitting in a jar of formaldehyde on a surgeon's desk....
Thank you. Saved me from saying much the same thing.
It should also be noted that kids today can't handle a carriage pulled by even a single horse, much less a proper team. And most of them couldn't harvest wheat with a sickle to save their lives....
You seem to be assuming that there is never a need to run the A/C 24-7. Which is normal about seven months of the year down here in N'Awlins. Lows above 27C at night, highs above 35C in daylight. Every day except winter....
I.e. saying "The US army has better weapons than civilians, therefore it would win, therefore civilians don't need AR-15s to defend against tyranny" is dumb on many levels.
Civilians don't need AR-15s to defend against tyranny. They need deer rifles. Which will go through a soldier's body armour the long way. Note that it's illegal to hunt deer with an AR-15, because the round is too wimpy....
Which is irrelevant to the question of "should civilians be allowed to own AR-15s?" To which question, the answer is "yes". Until and unless we amend the Second Amendment out of the Constitution....
Getting a working nuclear bomb requires high explosives (in shaped charges) to achieve the critical mass at a density that maintains a chain reaction for long enough. This is basically the same sort of chemistry that you need for rocket propellants.
Umm, no. It's not. Rocket propellants BURN, they don't explode.
Nuclear fission reactors require materials science able to build the containment vessels, which are very similar to rocket exhaust jets in requirements.
Umm, no. For one thing, rocket exhaust jets have to be lightweight. Unlike nuclear reactors, which can be 15cm of steel. And never mind regenerative cooling, which works really well in rockets, but is irrelevant to nuclear power plants (or bombs).
Hawaii has a problem with hot temperatures in public classrooms that is affecting students negatively.
For sure? Have studies been done? Is Hawaii hot? Wow, new info for me!
New info for me, too.
I lived on Oahu for a year way back in the '70s. When we moved in, we opened all the windows in the house. When we left, we closed them. Never needed A/C, never needed heat. Hell, with the windows there (think large venetian blinds - the glass was cut into 10cm strips that rotated when you cranked the handle to open/close them), A/C would have been pretty much impossible anyways....
This. Haven't had a "home phone" for at least a decade. Ditto siblings. I don't think my parents do either, but I could be mistaken there - Dad is old-fashioned....
Really? Two examples in two months in a population of almost 40 million people is "somewhat frequent"???
Assuming that the two examples mentioned were representative, that would imply that your chance of being the victim of a swatting in your lifetime are on the order of 0.001%. Hardly "somewhat frequent"....
Drop back a century, and look at what was expected in the way of education - high school was a luxury for the working class, college was only available to the best and the brightest and the wealthy.
Now, high school is considered not enough education for many jobs, college is more the norm than the exception, and a graduate degree is rather more common than "the best and the brightest and the wealthy"....
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The kind of radioactive waste you're talking about isn't really "waste", since it can be processed to remove the elements that poison fission reactions and then turned back into perfectly functional fuel rods.
And never mind the possibilities inherent in breeder reactors, which can turn U-238 (for which read: most of the uranium in a civilian reactor) and turn it into a useful fissionable.
Alas, the anti-nuke hysterics have pretty much eliminated the possibility of reprocessing spent fuel rods, so we dump a metric-fuckton of usable uranium into cooling tanks, let it sit for decades (or forever, since the anti-nukes have fought tooth and nail to prevent the building of reprocessing facilities), then throw it away
Bad title because the monitors aren't radioactive (we hope!).
Radiation Monitors, maybe.
Radioactivity Monitors works.
Radioactive monitors? Shows that neither submitter nor editor has a clue, at best....
Alpha emitters (like Plutonium) are generally a non-issue for practical purposes. You might get cancer 30 years from now if the stuff is in your lungs. Or not. But no acute effects.
Betas are worse, but I can't think of anything that should be emitting betas in a nuclear facility.
Now gammas are, relatively speaking, killers. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any gamma-emitters associated with nuclear power, but we're not really talking nuclear power here, we're talking nuclear weapon production. Which takes a special kind of reactor, with its own, special, problems....
So, basically, there is no crime that fits the term you used. Thanks, that's what I thought.
Oh, and another thing you've made me curious about - how much of YOUR income goes to helping other people?
And if the amount isn't "everything over cost of food and housing where I live", why not? Isn't it, well, greedy to keep more than a bare subsistence level standard of living, what with the overwhelming majority of the people of the planet making less than you (probably) do?
Yes, especially when we're talking three or four inches over 80+ years. It's not like routine runway repairs won't deal with the problem....
I'm curious. What specific law are you talking about here? I can't think of any that make "greed" a crime, but than IANAL. So enlighten me, if you please....
The framers allowed individuals to own armed ships. You know, with multiple cannon...
And yes, firing a broadside into a crowd generally was much more deadly than any AR-15 clone (did you know that the .223 is illegal to use to hunt deer, as it is unlikely to actually kill the deer reliably?)....
Y'know, I have never heard of anyone being injured by looking at a gun. I suppose it's possible that someone was looking at his gun while crossing a street and didn't notice the bus that ran him down, but I don't recall ever reading about that happening....
Hmmm....legal age to buy a gun in the USA - 18. Legal age to buy beer in the USA - 18. Legal age to have sex...wait for it...18.
Though note that there are exceptions to that age limit for sex, depending on the State. There are states that make it illegal for minors to have sex with adults, but not with each other....
Well, if I were mowing the grass, pretty easy. Or watching TV, for that matter. Or even driving home from my day-job.
Umm, no. Some of us have diabetes because our pancreas is sitting in a jar of formaldehyde on a surgeon's desk....
And yet...
Number of people affected by the storm: ~80 million,
Number of people who lost power as a result of the storm: ~2 million.
Number of deaths attributed to the storm: 9.
Compared to Katrina, not all that big a deal. IOW, what's the fuss about? Slow news week?
Of course they do! There's always one candidate on the ballot, and you only get to vote if you're a ranking Party member. But it's an election, eh?
Abolish term limits.
That last word is important.
Though if you meant they were going to do away with Presidential elections, TFA's title would be correct....
"All these worlds are yours, except Europa."
And Enceladus, it seems....
Thank you. Saved me from saying much the same thing.
It should also be noted that kids today can't handle a carriage pulled by even a single horse, much less a proper team. And most of them couldn't harvest wheat with a sickle to save their lives....
You seem to be assuming that there is never a need to run the A/C 24-7. Which is normal about seven months of the year down here in N'Awlins. Lows above 27C at night, highs above 35C in daylight. Every day except winter....
Civilians don't need AR-15s to defend against tyranny. They need deer rifles. Which will go through a soldier's body armour the long way. Note that it's illegal to hunt deer with an AR-15, because the round is too wimpy....
Which is irrelevant to the question of "should civilians be allowed to own AR-15s?" To which question, the answer is "yes". Until and unless we amend the Second Amendment out of the Constitution....
Oh, yeah! Now I remember. It was on /. yesterday!
Do our editors actually, you know, edit? Or is that just soooo 20th Century?
Umm, no. It's not. Rocket propellants BURN, they don't explode.
Umm, no. For one thing, rocket exhaust jets have to be lightweight. Unlike nuclear reactors, which can be 15cm of steel. And never mind regenerative cooling, which works really well in rockets, but is irrelevant to nuclear power plants (or bombs).
New info for me, too.
I lived on Oahu for a year way back in the '70s. When we moved in, we opened all the windows in the house. When we left, we closed them. Never needed A/C, never needed heat. Hell, with the windows there (think large venetian blinds - the glass was cut into 10cm strips that rotated when you cranked the handle to open/close them), A/C would have been pretty much impossible anyways....
This. Haven't had a "home phone" for at least a decade. Ditto siblings. I don't think my parents do either, but I could be mistaken there - Dad is old-fashioned....
Really? Two examples in two months in a population of almost 40 million people is "somewhat frequent"???
Assuming that the two examples mentioned were representative, that would imply that your chance of being the victim of a swatting in your lifetime are on the order of 0.001%. Hardly "somewhat frequent"....
Lowered standard of education???
I beg to differ.
Drop back a century, and look at what was expected in the way of education - high school was a luxury for the working class, college was only available to the best and the brightest and the wealthy.
Now, high school is considered not enough education for many jobs, college is more the norm than the exception, and a graduate degree is rather more common than "the best and the brightest and the wealthy"....
Hey! I resemble that remark! Damned if I didn't eat a lot of M&M's back then....