> defund research that makes using Pu and uranium a thing of the past Thorium isn't fissile, so what are you using to start the reaction off? Pixie dust.
Funnily enough Germany is actually exporting solar power to France, because nuclear power can't provide power during peak hours and solar does. Germany is one of the biggest solar producers, with a capacity of almost 17GW.
> TWR that can happily chug on fuel until it is plain old lead suitable for adding to paint chips
What a fantasy world you live in. Thorium reactors produce high level waste, the same as all reactors... just a different sort than light water reactors. The thing is no commercial Thorium reactor exist and there is no independant research to show if they are even practical.
The British are excluding Sellafield from the tests. Obviously, with the likes of "Dirty thirty" and regular data falsification, they don't want anyone poking their nose in there. Anyways, this is no surpise as the stress tests are not binding. Countries can cop out on any excuse.
> What matters, especially for long term effect, is the form of radiation. Which the article of course doesn't mention. Umm, iodine and cesium. They're always the main isotopes emitted in a nuclear accident. Besides they're the only ones Tepco give information on. There's no info about the rubble that got blown out by the explosions, but I assume that that isn't counted as part of the 770,000 figure
The article suggests it's coming from the sewage treatment plant. An earlier article reported that several sewage treatment plants had radioactive sludge. The contaminated water from the reactor has collected in basements and trench at fukushima and is likely seeping into the ground water.
> The demo left me with the feeling that the developers spend more time on textures of naked women than on anything else. Time well spent, in other words
Really it's only safe if you're high enough. Between 40 ft and 400 ft there's not enough time for the parachute to deploy, yet it's high enough for you to be seriously injured.
If webp supported alpha transparency it would be useful. png is a lossless format and therefore much bulkier. A png is normally 5 times bigger than jpg image. But jpg doesn't support transparency
There are various reports that Unit 1's isolation condenser was damaged before the tsunami hit and the workers had to manually shut it off, because it was cooling down the reactor too quickly. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_04.html Also, the pressure in the reaction chamber fluctuated wildly and a radiation monitoring post on the perimeter of the plant went off. All this happened *before* the tsunami struck.
> modern, meltdown proof No such thing. There is always a small chance of meltdown, no matter how many backups systems you have > build plants that USE spent fuel rather than dispose of it Also, no such thing. The so-called nuclear cycle is a myth. UK, France and Germany all tried to build fast breed reactors and failed (because the cooling system uses sodium which catches fire when it is exposed to air). The Japs tried to build one and it's been offline for most of its life because of a sodium fire). Some plants use expensive and dangerous to process MOX fuel, but that gives almost negible saving on uranium use and you still have to dispose of the spent MOX fuel in the end.
3d content creation apps typically use opengl commands that aren't used for games and these cards are optimised to make those commands run faster. (The article mentions a feature called GeometryBoost)
> What can realistically replace that? Funny that you assume there is no alternative. How is it that their nextdoor neighbour Austia survives just fine without nuclear power? I don't see any headlines "Austria in crisis because of no power"
Yeah, it went from $45 to $94.25, but the average investor couldn't buy the stock until it already had reached $80. Glad to see that we are both creating a new bubble *and* lining the pockets of the same investment firms responsible for the subprime mortage crash.
I don't understand why they're even bothering with Atom. It's about 100 times more power hungry than an ARM. But ARM will license their chips to anyone, so why not just make an ARM? With their new 3d process technology they would have the lowest power consuming ARM chip on the planet
> Right, primary containment is intact, which means that the core is still protected. Leaks from water lines are not loss of primary containment, and water leaks are not as hazardous as you have been led to believe.
Dude, try looking at the defination of the verb "contain". It means "not let out". That's not what's happening here. The basement of unit 1 is full of radioactive water that leaked from the containment. Unit 2 is even worse. This water is leaking into the ground water and now several sewage treatment plants have radioactive sludge.
> No, the WHO did in fact state that. You should visit their website, its a fact. They may have stated that, but they are wrong. 630,000 terabecquerels is not an "insignificant release of radiation"
> Nonsense, neither WHO nor IAEA support your claim here. As the party making the affirmative assertion has the burden of proof, if you have a reliable source for all these claims I would be happy to retract my statement. I can find no evidence to support your assertions.
Congradulations! Pratically all your information about Fukushima is wrong: > primary containment appears to be intact but we won't know for some time. No. Both unit 2 and unit 1 containment and pressure vessel have leaks.
> WHO has stated that there is no evidence of any significant release of radiation. No. Material discharged from the plant from March 11 to early April was estimated between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels and continues at 154 terabecquerels per day.
>Measured increased amounts of radiocative caesium and iodine in the vicinity of the plant, but not at dangerous levels. No. It is at danerous levels - hence the exclusion zone.
> No evidence that any uranium or plutonium has been released. Yes there is. The explosion in Unit 3 blew pieces of fuel rod up to a mile from the site. Uranium and plutonium was vapourised and detected both in the soil in Fukushima and as far away as California.
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> defund research that makes using Pu and uranium a thing of the past
Thorium isn't fissile, so what are you using to start the reaction off? Pixie dust.
It is subsidised, but not as much as nuclear is (insurance caps, subsidised fuel, loan guarantees, etc.)
Funnily enough Germany is actually exporting solar power to France, because nuclear power can't provide power during peak hours and solar does. Germany is one of the biggest solar producers, with a capacity of almost 17GW.
http://www.energydelta.org/en/mainmenu/edi-intelligence/latest-energy-news/special-report-solar-power-aids-german-nuclear-shutdown
> TWR that can happily chug on fuel until it is plain old lead suitable for adding to paint chips
What a fantasy world you live in. Thorium reactors produce high level waste, the same as all reactors... just a different sort than light water reactors. The thing is no commercial Thorium reactor exist and there is no independant research to show if they are even practical.
The British are excluding Sellafield from the tests. Obviously, with the likes of "Dirty thirty" and regular data falsification, they don't want anyone poking their nose in there. Anyways, this is no surpise as the stress tests are not binding. Countries can cop out on any excuse.
> What matters, especially for long term effect, is the form of radiation. Which the article of course doesn't mention.
Umm, iodine and cesium.
They're always the main isotopes emitted in a nuclear accident. Besides they're the only ones Tepco give information on.
There's no info about the rubble that got blown out by the explosions, but I assume that that isn't counted as part of the 770,000 figure
The article suggests it's coming from the sewage treatment plant. An earlier article reported that several sewage treatment plants had radioactive sludge. The contaminated water from the reactor has collected in basements and trench at fukushima and is likely seeping into the ground water.
> The demo left me with the feeling that the developers spend more time on textures of naked women than on anything else.
Time well spent, in other words
Radiation does general damage to the DNA and can cause many health effects including heart attacks
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091022202710.htm
Really it's only safe if you're high enough. Between 40 ft and 400 ft there's not enough time for the parachute to deploy, yet it's high enough for you to be seriously injured.
If webp supported alpha transparency it would be useful. png is a lossless format and therefore much bulkier. A png is normally 5 times bigger than jpg image. But jpg doesn't support transparency
There are various reports that Unit 1's isolation condenser was damaged before the tsunami hit and the workers had to manually shut it off, because it was cooling down the reactor too quickly. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_04.html
Also, the pressure in the reaction chamber fluctuated wildly and a radiation monitoring post on the perimeter of the plant went off.
All this happened *before* the tsunami struck.
> modern, meltdown proof
No such thing. There is always a small chance of meltdown, no matter how many backups systems you have
> build plants that USE spent fuel rather than dispose of it
Also, no such thing. The so-called nuclear cycle is a myth. UK, France and Germany all tried to build fast breed reactors and failed (because the cooling system uses sodium which catches fire when it is exposed to air). The Japs tried to build one and it's been offline for most of its life because of a sodium fire).
Some plants use expensive and dangerous to process MOX fuel, but that gives almost negible saving on uranium use and you still have to dispose of the spent MOX fuel in the end.
3d content creation apps typically use opengl commands that aren't used for games and these cards are optimised to make those commands run faster.
(The article mentions a feature called GeometryBoost)
> What can realistically replace that?
Funny that you assume there is no alternative. How is it that their nextdoor neighbour Austia survives just fine without nuclear power? I don't see any headlines "Austria in crisis because of no power"
Yeah, it went from $45 to $94.25, but the average investor couldn't buy the stock until it already had reached $80.
Glad to see that we are both creating a new bubble *and* lining the pockets of the same investment firms responsible for the subprime mortage crash.
Quite a lot of applications using assembler and simd code, so I would say it's not trivial.
I don't know about that. I've seen benchmarks that show Atom using 50x more power in idle mode.
I don't understand why they're even bothering with Atom. It's about 100 times more power hungry than an ARM. But ARM will license their chips to anyone, so why not just make an ARM? With their new 3d process technology they would have the lowest power consuming ARM chip on the planet
The trick is to only read the studies that fit with your lifestyle.
All we need now is a study to show that beer cures cancer!
Sorry, I linked to the wrong nytimes article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/world/asia/08japan.html?_r=1&ref=world
Dude. They are talking about *drinking* water, not ground water. Give it time though. You'll see it in the drinking water soon.
> Right, primary containment is intact, which means that the core is still protected. Leaks from water lines are not loss of primary containment, and water leaks are not as hazardous as you have been led to believe.
Dude, try looking at the defination of the verb "contain". It means "not let out". That's not what's happening here. The basement of unit 1 is full of radioactive water that leaked from the containment. Unit 2 is even worse. This water is leaking into the ground water and now several sewage treatment plants have radioactive sludge.
> No, the WHO did in fact state that. You should visit their website, its a fact.
They may have stated that, but they are wrong. 630,000 terabecquerels is not an "insignificant release of radiation"
In some spots the soil contamination exceeds Chernobyl evacuation levels: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110511p2a00m0na018000c.html
> Nonsense, neither WHO nor IAEA support your claim here. As the party making the affirmative assertion has the burden of proof, if you have a reliable source for all these claims I would be happy to retract my statement. I can find no evidence to support your assertions.
New York times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/world/asia/09japan.html?_r=1
Most people consider it a reliable source of information.
Uranium found in air samples:
http://enenews.com/uranium-234-detected-hawaii-southern-california-seattle
Congradulations!
Pratically all your information about Fukushima is wrong:
> primary containment appears to be intact but we won't know for some time.
No. Both unit 2 and unit 1 containment and pressure vessel have leaks.
> WHO has stated that there is no evidence of any significant release of radiation.
No. Material discharged from the plant from March 11 to early April was estimated between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels and continues at 154 terabecquerels per day.
>Measured increased amounts of radiocative caesium and iodine in the vicinity of the plant, but not at dangerous levels.
No. It is at danerous levels - hence the exclusion zone.
> No evidence that any uranium or plutonium has been released.
Yes there is. The explosion in Unit 3 blew pieces of fuel rod up to a mile from the site. Uranium and plutonium was vapourised and detected both in the soil in Fukushima and as far away as California.
Things are worse than people realise. Units 1 and 2 are both leaking water from the pressure vessel and containment vessel. Also, the quake craked the site foundations. So the contaminated water is seeping into the groundwater.
http://fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-groundwater-contamination-worst-nuclear-history
They have found highly radioactive sludge in several sewage treatment plants. http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110513p2a00m0na019000c.html