"Nobody died" This is the tired old logic of the nuclear appologist. Only count the deaths. Ignore the fact that some of the health effects like cancer and birth defects take years to become evident. And ignore the fact that the huge swaiths of land has become uninhabital and that the groundwater has become poisened. Oh yes, then the idiotic chest x-ray comparison. Chest x-ray is external radiation, but people living near Fukusima are in danger because of internal radiation (ingesting radioactive isotopes from air, dust, food, etc.)
Unfortunatley, nuclear power is only really becomes economical when you run the reactors way beyond their designed lifespan. According to a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, "subsidies to the nuclear power industry over the past fifty years have been so large in proportion to the value of the energy produced that in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away" http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_and_global_warming/nuclear-power-subsidies-report.html
The explosion wasn't unexpected, it happened after the unit 1 explosion. It's quite ridiculous to suggest they wouldn't be monitoring a serious event like Fukushima.
Seeing as there are no commercial thorium molten salt reactors in existance, neither the safety, nor the design has been proven. It'll take huge amounts of public money to make it viable. But still no nuclear design will ever be 100% safe, or make the waste problem go away. On the other side, we have solar, wind and geothermal, none of which have waste problems, all 100% safe. And the technical problems to solve to make them more economical are far easier to solve. If solar energy had even a fraction of the public funds pumped into nuclear research over they years, we would already have cheap solar power today.
As well as that there has been some speculation that the explosion in unit 3 was more than just a hydrogen explosion. If you compare the unit 1 and unit 3 explosions, you see the unit 3 was far larger in magintude, plus there is a flash right where the spent fuel pool is located. Also pieces of nuclear fuel rods were found 2 km from the site. Arnie Gundersen speculates that this was caused by a "prompt criticality" in the fuel pool, triggered by the hydrogen explosion. http://fairewinds.com/updates
Maybe if Apple and Google incorperated a firewall it would fix thing. Most apps don't need to connect to the internet, so the firewall would disable apps from connecting to internet on a case by case basis.
I worked on Symbian for a while and say it was an awful OS and no amount of patches, or tacked on frameworks would ever save it. It was an OS flawed from birth, designed by early optimisers. I have a theory that the real reason why the n-gage platform failed, was because of the unwieldness of the Symbian OS. In the 4 years of development they were never able to get OpenGL working on N-gage.
It's quite interesting to read that they arrested people that they knew were innocent, just so they could interrogate them. "an al-Jazeera journalist was held at GuantÃnamo for six years, partly in order to be interrogated about the Arabic news network." Another gut was arrested "because of his general knowledge of activities in the areas of Khowst and Kabul based as a result of his frequent travels through the region as a taxi driver".
> It is still exceedingly unlikely that even *one* extra cancer death will be attributable to Fukushima.
Especially, if the accident report is published before the deaths have a chance to take place and ignore other health effects. Cancer is not only effect of radiation posioning.
> To the best of my understanding there are habitable towns throughout the world whose background radiation levels
> The fact is, unless you're within 6 or so blocks(not counting the ocean) of the Fukushima plant, there is no dangerous level
readings taken by the Japanese government shows that is plainly not true (which is why the evacuation zone is in place):
"An analysis of MEXT's data by New Scientist shows just how elevated the levels are. After the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the most highly contaminated areas were defined as those with over 1490 kilobecquerels (kBq) of caesium per square metre. Produce from soil with 550 kBq/m2 was destroyed.
People living within 30 kilometres of the plant have evacuated or been advised to stay indoors. Since 18 March, MEXT has repeatedly found caesium levels above 550 kBq/m2 in an area some 45 kilometres wide lying 30 to 50 kilometres north-west of the plant. The highest was 6400 kBq/m2, about 35 kilometres away, while caesium reached 1816 kBq/m2 in Nihonmatsu City and 1752 kBq/m2 in the town of Kawamata, where iodine-131 levels of up to 12,560 kBq/m2 have also been measured. "Some of the numbers are really high," says Gerhard Proehl, head of assessment and management of environmental releases of radiation at the International Atomic Energy Agency."
The problem with Collada support in Blender was that it didn't support skinned meshes. There was a student working on it for Google summer of code, but as far as I know he never finished it and there's still no skinned mesh support.
The Union of Concerned Scientists did a detailed report of US subsidies to the nuclear power industry: http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_and_global_warming/nuclear-power-subsidies-report.html They concluded that "Government subsidies to the nuclear power industry over the past fifty years have been so large in proportion to the value of the energy produced that in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away"
"Commenting on the Japanese government's slow response, a U.S. government source said Washington had offered immediately after the accident to provide a pump to help cool the reactors, but the Kan administration turned down the offer
Another U.S. government source noted that in the initial stage of the crisis, Japan had taken the stance that there was no room for U.S. assistance when it came to dealing with the problem."
I understood that they are currently keeping the rectors cool by pumping 500 tons of water per day into the reactors. But it's not a closed loop system. The water becomes contaminated by the damaged fuel rods, and flows out through cracks in the containment chamber. So basically, the radioactive water will continue to be released. The only long term solution is to get the regular cooling system working again. However, it's probable that the cooling system was damaged from the hydrogen explosions and the salt deposits from the sea water.
That's just your opinion. In my opinion OO does suit ever type of programming problem. If you read a bit further they say that the object oriented programming module is replaced by a object oriented design model, so the wheels are not coming off
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"Nobody died"
This is the tired old logic of the nuclear appologist.
Only count the deaths. Ignore the fact that some of the health effects like cancer and birth defects take years to become evident. And ignore the fact that the huge swaiths of land has become uninhabital and that the groundwater has become poisened.
Oh yes, then the idiotic chest x-ray comparison.
Chest x-ray is external radiation, but people living near Fukusima are in danger because of internal radiation (ingesting radioactive isotopes from air, dust, food, etc.)
Unfortunatley, nuclear power is only really becomes economical when you run the reactors way beyond their designed lifespan.
According to a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, "subsidies to the nuclear power industry over the past fifty years have been so large in proportion to the value of the energy produced that in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away"
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_and_global_warming/nuclear-power-subsidies-report.html
yeah, right.
"The U.S. has 31 reactors just like Japanâ(TM)s â" but regulators are ignoring the risks and boosting industry profits"
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/america-s-nuclear-nightmare-20110427
The explosion wasn't unexpected, it happened after the unit 1 explosion. It's quite ridiculous to suggest they wouldn't be monitoring a serious event like Fukushima.
Seeing as there are no commercial thorium molten salt reactors in existance, neither the safety, nor the design has been proven. It'll take huge amounts of public money to make it viable. But still no nuclear design will ever be 100% safe, or make the waste problem go away.
On the other side, we have solar, wind and geothermal, none of which have waste problems, all 100% safe. And the technical problems to solve to make them more economical are far easier to solve. If solar energy had even a fraction of the public funds pumped into nuclear research over they years, we would already have cheap solar power today.
He says they should be able to tell for sure by analysing the smoke from the explosion. However, that data has never been made public.
As well as that there has been some speculation that the explosion in unit 3 was more than just a hydrogen explosion. If you compare the unit 1 and unit 3 explosions, you see the unit 3 was far larger in magintude, plus there is a flash right where the spent fuel pool is located. Also pieces of nuclear fuel rods were found 2 km from the site. Arnie Gundersen speculates that this was caused by a "prompt criticality" in the fuel pool, triggered by the hydrogen explosion. http://fairewinds.com/updates
iPhone 3G stopped being sold in June 2010
The cadmium telluride is 0.5 micrometers thin, so there isn't actually that much of it.
Maybe if Apple and Google incorperated a firewall it would fix thing. Most apps don't need to connect to the internet, so the firewall would disable apps from connecting to internet on a case by case basis.
I worked on Symbian for a while and say it was an awful OS and no amount of patches, or tacked on frameworks would ever save it. It was an OS flawed from birth, designed by early optimisers.
I have a theory that the real reason why the n-gage platform failed, was because of the unwieldness of the Symbian OS. In the 4 years of development they were never able to get OpenGL working on N-gage.
It's quite interesting to read that they arrested people that they knew were innocent, just so they could interrogate them.
"an al-Jazeera journalist was held at GuantÃnamo for six years, partly in order to be interrogated about the Arabic news network."
Another gut was arrested "because of his general knowledge of activities in the areas of Khowst and Kabul based as a result of his frequent travels through the region as a taxi driver".
> It is still exceedingly unlikely that even *one* extra cancer death will be attributable to Fukushima.
Especially, if the accident report is published before the deaths have a chance to take place and ignore other health effects. Cancer is not only effect of radiation posioning.
> To the best of my understanding there are habitable towns throughout the world whose background radiation levels
A meaningless comparison. People living in the exclusion zone are at risk from ingesting radioactive caesium and iodine, not from external radiation.
Indeed, radioactive iodine-131 has already been found in the breast milk of several women living in areas around Fukushima:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8465248/Radioactive-iodine-found-in-breast-milk-of-Japanese-mothers.html
> The fact is, unless you're within 6 or so blocks(not counting the ocean) of the Fukushima plant, there is no dangerous level
readings taken by the Japanese government shows that is plainly not true (which is why the evacuation zone is in place):
"An analysis of MEXT's data by New Scientist shows just how elevated the levels are. After the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the most highly contaminated areas were defined as those with over 1490 kilobecquerels (kBq) of caesium per square metre. Produce from soil with 550 kBq/m2 was destroyed.
People living within 30 kilometres of the plant have evacuated or been advised to stay indoors. Since 18 March, MEXT has repeatedly found caesium levels above 550 kBq/m2 in an area some 45 kilometres wide lying 30 to 50 kilometres north-west of the plant. The highest was 6400 kBq/m2, about 35 kilometres away, while caesium reached 1816 kBq/m2 in Nihonmatsu City and 1752 kBq/m2 in the town of Kawamata, where iodine-131 levels of up to 12,560 kBq/m2 have also been measured. "Some of the numbers are really high," says Gerhard Proehl, head of assessment and management of environmental releases of radiation at the International Atomic Energy Agency."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20305-caesium-fallout-from-fukushima-rivals-chernobyl.html
> It is never sent to Apple.
In all fairness you don't really know that. Nobody has done a detailed analysis of the data sent from iPhone.
I think these nuclear subs are well worth the expense. How else will Britain deal with Taliban aircraft carriers?
Amen to that.
Personally, I think ArtRage is one of the best UI around.
The problem with Collada support in Blender was that it didn't support skinned meshes. There was a student working on it for Google summer of code, but as far as I know he never finished it and there's still no skinned mesh support.
The Union of Concerned Scientists did a detailed report of US subsidies to the nuclear power industry:
http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_and_global_warming/nuclear-power-subsidies-report.html
They concluded that "Government subsidies to the nuclear power industry over the past fifty years have been so large in proportion to the value of the energy produced that in some cases it would have cost taxpayers less to simply buy kilowatts on the open market and give them away"
Not really. The article says that the extra blocks in the A5 will probably be for video acceleration
So, where is the obligatory you tube video of some one eating one of them whole?
> Those idiots have the best disaster response in the world.
Yeah. The Japanese response was so bad that the US was considering a compulsory evacaution of all US nationals:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110411004893.htm
"Commenting on the Japanese government's slow response, a U.S. government source said Washington had offered immediately after the accident to provide a pump to help cool the reactors, but the Kan administration turned down the offer
Another U.S. government source noted that in the initial stage of the crisis, Japan had taken the stance that there was no room for U.S. assistance when it came to dealing with the problem."
I understood that they are currently keeping the rectors cool by pumping 500 tons of water per day into the reactors. But it's not a closed loop system. The water becomes contaminated by the damaged fuel rods, and flows out through cracks in the containment chamber. So basically, the radioactive water will continue to be released. The only long term solution is to get the regular cooling system working again. However, it's probable that the cooling system was damaged from the hydrogen explosions and the salt deposits from the sea water.
Yes it does. OO is a general programing technique. Programmers in certain domains may choose not to use it, but that's a purely culture thing
That's just your opinion. In my opinion OO does suit ever type of programming problem. If you read a bit further they say that the object oriented programming module is replaced by a object oriented design model, so the wheels are not coming off