Not an expert but I probably know more than 90% of the people on/. about the subject. IEven yourself. Just from a quick look I would say you are 10 years out of date.
I've read and watched a lot of material about the subject over the years. The new design that was on the latest documentary doesn't use any active cooling systems, water provided by pumps, to keep it from melting down. The system suspending the reactant material, nuclear fuel, in a salt solution. If the system get out of control it heats up. The heat causes the solution to expand increasing the distance between the atoms. At a point the system breaks critical mass by the distance between the atoms being to great to sustain fission. The whole process grounds stops as dictated by the laws of physics.
There is a second safe guard in the system. There is a plug in the bottom of the reactor. If the solution does get to hot, the plug melts and dumps the entire contents in a special chamber at the bottom of the containment building. The chamber is designed to store a runaway reaction.
As for one of your other comments. Yes, humans agreed decades on a place to store waste. Just the hippies started barking and not allowed us to move it their. Besides storing waste is wasteful. It would be fare better to reprocess it and reuse it. Except again, there are those smelly hippies causing problems.
By the way, incase you haven't figured it out, hippies is just a catch all name I use to designate any anti nuke kook.
We use water as a coolant for basically everything for many, many reasons.
Open a book hippie. We use water based coolant because it was what the navy came up with in the '50s to run their nuclear submarine program. The administration was in a hurry to beat the soviets to market with a working commercial nuclear power development system. Since the design was already off the drawing board and working it was simple to scale it up and take it to market. Which is exactly what happened.
There where better designs being worked on but those where mostly shut down because we had a system that worked, abet poorly. The along came the hippies and virtually all research was stopped leaving us with only one commercial system.
Now days that the hippies are dying off that caused this problem we are seeing more research projects started up with nuclear power. One design using molten salt as proven itself in testing and small scale use. It is ready for prime time, the only problem? Hippies and all the regulations and paper work they have put on bring the reactor to market. So the first one of these will be going online soon in China.
Then nuclear looks great when you stop letting smelly hippies use fear mongering to dictate policy. I just watched a documentary on the future of nuclear power. Research is starting to pick up on small design reactors, molten salt cooled reactors, and melt down proof reactors. Reactors that don't use water to cool them down. Reactors that use the laws of physics to stop a melt down before it even starts. Designs for self correcting reactors.
We would have had these designs in place and running 15 years ago if research hadn't ground to a halt thanks to hippie protesters. If the research could have continued Fukushima would never have happened. So thank you smelly hippie. Fukushima is another one you caused.
I would hesitate to call them "smart" at all. Setting aside privacy issues these things barely work as intended. I've tried to get my google assistant on my phone to work for several years. Damn things still mis-understands half of what I say and ignores the other half. I figure if I was to bring home one of these "smart" doohickeys I would spend half my time yelling at the damn thing and the other half manually doing with I was yelling at it to do in the first place.
me: "We are out of coke?"
smart thing: "I've ordered you a pound of coke. Would you like a hooker to go with it?"
My community does CPU-intensive work and we want control of OUR computers. We understand the need for antivirus/spyware software and are willing to use it. We don't want our OS to treat us like idiots and BE the spyware... We want to give explicit permission for the OS to phone home...
Why do you even need spyware and virus protection on systems like this. These systems should be self contained and not connected to a public network. The only updates and software installs should come through a dedicated channel and not just off the net. Just anyone shouldn't be allowed to install and run software on systems like this.
One of the problems with modern capitalism is we have removed all responsibility from the equation. This mother fucker, and mother fuckers like him, can line their pockets at the expense of the health of people. This mother fucker should be sitting in a prison cell some where. But instead he gets to hide behind a corporation and count his money.
The capitalist system is the best economic system we have come up with. But we have freed to many people from responsibility of their actions.
You don't even need a TV these days to watch TV any more. Virtually everything you want to watch can be streamed internet browser. So if you really must watch TV you can just stream it to a window on a monitor.
I think you missed that joke by about 8046.72 km. I give you a 'A' for effort. I often wind up being modded a troll instead of the +5 funny so I feel your pain. I will just like to think that I have superior senses of humor than them. Doesn't make it true, but I like to think that.
So much to your "Freaking Hippies" analogy. Would you really like 50 million shintoists-ists invade your country and spread their unholy religion?
Humm... Are you asking if I would rather have 50 million Shintoists or the 50 million fundamentalist Christians I already have? Let me show the Japanese where to park....
Actually, congress doesn't have to pass any laws to regulate google, facebook, or twitter. The commerce clause of the Constitution gives congress vast, some say to vast, and undefined powers over inner state commerce. Congress in the past has used this power to regulate what companies can and can't do.
Besides these companies exist only at the whelm of the US government. If for some reason the government decides that twitter, google, and facebook no longer exist, then they no longer exist. If you need an example of this look at Standard Oil in the early 20th century and AT&T in the latter. In both case congress decided that these companies effectively no longer existed in their current form; breaking them up was in the best interest of the public.
In the case of Standard Oil at the time it was ever bit as rich and as powerful as twitter, google, and facebook. But that wasn't enough to save it from being broken up. I'm sure that there would be legal challenges to them being broken up but the Constitution is clear where the power to regulate instate commerce lays. It would be very doubtful that any court would try to challenge this.
I believer you are forgetting something very important. Facebook and Twitter are indeed private corporations. An as therefor they do have the right to dictate what appears on their site, until.
Until their sites get so big, as twitter and facebook have done, that the options of one person or a small group of people using the cover of corporate policy can shape the destiny of elections. They do this by removing posts that disagree with this corporate policy, as both Twitter and facebook have done.
There is precedence for this happening and actions to counter this in the past. When a newspaper or a news station would give a political option, they where required by law to give equal time to a opposing option. This is no longer the case but used to be.
It is also foolish to continue to think that Congress doesn't have the power to legislate policies of a private company. Congress makes the laws, and if they don't have the power to do so, they sure as hell can give themselves the power.
I like the ideal of the POTUS being able to go around the media and talk right to the people with out it being filtered a third party. Reminds me of Roosevelt's fireside chats.
On the other hand I wish Trump had better filters on what he says. Granted, some of it is a great source of amusement. Eris would be proud of some of the Trump/Twitter moments. Still there are times when even I, a moderate Trump supporter, say, "What the fuck" to something he has rattled off.
Technically, he is not. They could kick him if they really wanted too. Removing him would be the worse thing they could possibly do. Probably the business equivalent of corporate suicide. Some Republicans are already barking about how much the tech. giants Twitter, Google, and Facebook control they have over speech. Limiting a sitting republican presidents speech on their platform might be enough to push them over the edge and have congress start regulating speech on internet platform.
I don't think any of us, pro trump or anti-trump, want that bunch of baboons attempting to police what we can say online. As much as we find Trumps tweets annoying, our best bet is just to ride this out. It will be over in a few years.
I totally agree with you. Bush Omega and Obama never should has enabled that policy to start with. How about this? When we arrest them we just toss their children into prison with them? But wait! Families need to be kept together so lets just toss granny in there with them. Just like they do in NK or old style USSR? How about that?
Well first you have to be able to prove the crooked cops are criminals. Not something easily done if the police control all the data that you need to do this.
I understand both sides of the issue. People want to be able to trust the cops but "who watches the watchmen?"
Instead of flying airplanes over the city, why not a fleet of drones? Seems that would be cheaper, better for the environment, and have better coverage.
The whole ideal of trying to blanket the city with 24 hour camera coverage is stupid, not to mention all the privacy issues it would entail. But if you are going to do something stupid, lets at least be smart about it.
The majority of people hate Donald Trump; the results should reflect that.
Here again is another example of extreme disillusionment as brought on by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). As you can clearly see the effected subject as lost all concept of reality caused by the syndrome. These individuals often choose to create their own reality where they can feel safe. One of the more interesting affects of TDS is how malleable this "reality" is when influenced by other subjects affected by TDS.
Treatment for TDS is only effective in the most mildest of cases. In these cases sometimes the individual effected can be brought out of the delusional state by carefully exposing them to reality in small doses.
This treatment has shown the have the exact opposite effect when used on individuals with serous TDS issues. Exposure to reality even in small doses will cause the individual to become more agitated as exposure continues. Eventually the individual will climax in a fit of rage where the individual is no longer capable of rational thoughts. This state is popularly known as "frothing."
In the most extreme cases of TDS individuals affected are driven instantly in to the frothing state at the mere mention of Trump, or the current state of reality. There is no real treatment for extreme cases of TDS. The general option of medical professionals is that individuals will need long term sedation. The length of this sedation is still being debated but some suggest it will need to be 2 to 6 years or longer.
One of the more interesting behaviors of those affect by TDS gathered in groups. This seems to amplify the effects of TDS in the individuals. This can lead to spontaneous events of frothing in one or more members of the group. Other individuals in the group spontaneous begin to agreeing with what ever the frothing members say, no matter how ridiculous this may be. This behavior is known as "sheeping" and is characterized by spontaneous and uncontrollable nodding of the head in the sheeping individuals.
Yes, it's TDS and it is strong in this one. Sometimes I wonder if these people come up with on their own or have to be told this. Then I wonder those that are told, how warped to you have to be led down this merry path of disillusionment.
I imagine in a few years once all those with this level of TDS get the help those so desperately need, that there will be several large studies on the effects of mass hysteria. The eight years that the Trump presidency will probably encompass will probably be studied for the next hundred years as an example social dysfunction by a minority of the population and how it effects the larger portion.
Actually, we know exactly what Pence's views on women and gays are. If Pence ever does become president, there will be a lot of SJWs longing for the good ol' days under President Trump.
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Oh well then you must be an expert then. ;-)
Not an expert but I probably know more than 90% of the people on /. about the subject. IEven yourself. Just from a quick look I would say you are 10 years out of date.
I've read and watched a lot of material about the subject over the years. The new design that was on the latest documentary doesn't use any active cooling systems, water provided by pumps, to keep it from melting down. The system suspending the reactant material, nuclear fuel, in a salt solution. If the system get out of control it heats up. The heat causes the solution to expand increasing the distance between the atoms. At a point the system breaks critical mass by the distance between the atoms being to great to sustain fission. The whole process grounds stops as dictated by the laws of physics.
There is a second safe guard in the system. There is a plug in the bottom of the reactor. If the solution does get to hot, the plug melts and dumps the entire contents in a special chamber at the bottom of the containment building. The chamber is designed to store a runaway reaction.
As for one of your other comments. Yes, humans agreed decades on a place to store waste. Just the hippies started barking and not allowed us to move it their. Besides storing waste is wasteful. It would be fare better to reprocess it and reuse it. Except again, there are those smelly hippies causing problems.
By the way, incase you haven't figured it out, hippies is just a catch all name I use to designate any anti nuke kook.
We use water as a coolant for basically everything for many, many reasons.
Open a book hippie. We use water based coolant because it was what the navy came up with in the '50s to run their nuclear submarine program. The administration was in a hurry to beat the soviets to market with a working commercial nuclear power development system. Since the design was already off the drawing board and working it was simple to scale it up and take it to market. Which is exactly what happened.
There where better designs being worked on but those where mostly shut down because we had a system that worked, abet poorly. The along came the hippies and virtually all research was stopped leaving us with only one commercial system.
Now days that the hippies are dying off that caused this problem we are seeing more research projects started up with nuclear power. One design using molten salt as proven itself in testing and small scale use. It is ready for prime time, the only problem? Hippies and all the regulations and paper work they have put on bring the reactor to market. So the first one of these will be going online soon in China.
Fucking uneducated hippie. Stop being part of the problem hippie and open a book. Maybe you will learn something.
Nuclear looks good
Then nuclear looks great when you stop letting smelly hippies use fear mongering to dictate policy. I just watched a documentary on the future of nuclear power. Research is starting to pick up on small design reactors, molten salt cooled reactors, and melt down proof reactors. Reactors that don't use water to cool them down. Reactors that use the laws of physics to stop a melt down before it even starts. Designs for self correcting reactors.
We would have had these designs in place and running 15 years ago if research hadn't ground to a halt thanks to hippie protesters. If the research could have continued Fukushima would never have happened. So thank you smelly hippie. Fukushima is another one you caused.
I would hesitate to call them "smart" at all. Setting aside privacy issues these things barely work as intended. I've tried to get my google assistant on my phone to work for several years. Damn things still mis-understands half of what I say and ignores the other half. I figure if I was to bring home one of these "smart" doohickeys I would spend half my time yelling at the damn thing and the other half manually doing with I was yelling at it to do in the first place.
me: "We are out of coke?"
smart thing: "I've ordered you a pound of coke. Would you like a hooker to go with it?"
Okay, I'll bite. What makes you say "windows 7" is better? Better than what?
My community does CPU-intensive work and we want control of OUR computers. We understand the need for antivirus/spyware software and are willing to use it. We don't want our OS to treat us like idiots and BE the spyware... We want to give explicit permission for the OS to phone home...
Why do you even need spyware and virus protection on systems like this. These systems should be self contained and not connected to a public network. The only updates and software installs should come through a dedicated channel and not just off the net. Just anyone shouldn't be allowed to install and run software on systems like this.
One of the problems with modern capitalism is we have removed all responsibility from the equation. This mother fucker, and mother fuckers like him, can line their pockets at the expense of the health of people. This mother fucker should be sitting in a prison cell some where. But instead he gets to hide behind a corporation and count his money.
The capitalist system is the best economic system we have come up with. But we have freed to many people from responsibility of their actions.
You don't even need a TV these days to watch TV any more. Virtually everything you want to watch can be streamed internet browser. So if you really must watch TV you can just stream it to a window on a monitor.
I think you missed that joke by about 8046.72 km. I give you a 'A' for effort. I often wind up being modded a troll instead of the +5 funny so I feel your pain. I will just like to think that I have superior senses of humor than them. Doesn't make it true, but I like to think that.
So much to your "Freaking Hippies" analogy. Would you really like 50 million shintoists-ists invade your country and spread their unholy religion?
Humm... Are you asking if I would rather have 50 million Shintoists or the 50 million fundamentalist Christians I already have? Let me show the Japanese where to park....
We need breeder reactors and isotope separation to turn it into new fuel.
Can't have it. Freaking hippies lose their shit every time you bring it up.
Actually, congress doesn't have to pass any laws to regulate google, facebook, or twitter. The commerce clause of the Constitution gives congress vast, some say to vast, and undefined powers over inner state commerce. Congress in the past has used this power to regulate what companies can and can't do.
Besides these companies exist only at the whelm of the US government. If for some reason the government decides that twitter, google, and facebook no longer exist, then they no longer exist. If you need an example of this look at Standard Oil in the early 20th century and AT&T in the latter. In both case congress decided that these companies effectively no longer existed in their current form; breaking them up was in the best interest of the public.
In the case of Standard Oil at the time it was ever bit as rich and as powerful as twitter, google, and facebook. But that wasn't enough to save it from being broken up. I'm sure that there would be legal challenges to them being broken up but the Constitution is clear where the power to regulate instate commerce lays. It would be very doubtful that any court would try to challenge this.
I believer you are forgetting something very important. Facebook and Twitter are indeed private corporations. An as therefor they do have the right to dictate what appears on their site, until.
Until their sites get so big, as twitter and facebook have done, that the options of one person or a small group of people using the cover of corporate policy can shape the destiny of elections. They do this by removing posts that disagree with this corporate policy, as both Twitter and facebook have done.
There is precedence for this happening and actions to counter this in the past. When a newspaper or a news station would give a political option, they where required by law to give equal time to a opposing option. This is no longer the case but used to be.
It is also foolish to continue to think that Congress doesn't have the power to legislate policies of a private company. Congress makes the laws, and if they don't have the power to do so, they sure as hell can give themselves the power.
I like the ideal of the POTUS being able to go around the media and talk right to the people with out it being filtered a third party. Reminds me of Roosevelt's fireside chats.
On the other hand I wish Trump had better filters on what he says. Granted, some of it is a great source of amusement. Eris would be proud of some of the Trump/Twitter moments. Still there are times when even I, a moderate Trump supporter, say, "What the fuck" to something he has rattled off.
Try the chicken. I hear the orange sauce is good with it.
Technically, he is not. They could kick him if they really wanted too. Removing him would be the worse thing they could possibly do. Probably the business equivalent of corporate suicide. Some Republicans are already barking about how much the tech. giants Twitter, Google, and Facebook control they have over speech. Limiting a sitting republican presidents speech on their platform might be enough to push them over the edge and have congress start regulating speech on internet platform.
I don't think any of us, pro trump or anti-trump, want that bunch of baboons attempting to police what we can say online. As much as we find Trumps tweets annoying, our best bet is just to ride this out. It will be over in a few years.
I totally agree with you. Bush Omega and Obama never should has enabled that policy to start with. How about this? When we arrest them we just toss their children into prison with them? But wait! Families need to be kept together so lets just toss granny in there with them. Just like they do in NK or old style USSR? How about that?
Why not treat crooked cops as criminals?
Well first you have to be able to prove the crooked cops are criminals. Not something easily done if the police control all the data that you need to do this.
I understand both sides of the issue. People want to be able to trust the cops but "who watches the watchmen?"
Instead of flying airplanes over the city, why not a fleet of drones? Seems that would be cheaper, better for the environment, and have better coverage.
The whole ideal of trying to blanket the city with 24 hour camera coverage is stupid, not to mention all the privacy issues it would entail. But if you are going to do something stupid, lets at least be smart about it.
The majority of people hate Donald Trump; the results should reflect that.
Here again is another example of extreme disillusionment as brought on by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). As you can clearly see the effected subject as lost all concept of reality caused by the syndrome. These individuals often choose to create their own reality where they can feel safe. One of the more interesting affects of TDS is how malleable this "reality" is when influenced by other subjects affected by TDS.
Treatment for TDS is only effective in the most mildest of cases. In these cases sometimes the individual effected can be brought out of the delusional state by carefully exposing them to reality in small doses.
This treatment has shown the have the exact opposite effect when used on individuals with serous TDS issues. Exposure to reality even in small doses will cause the individual to become more agitated as exposure continues. Eventually the individual will climax in a fit of rage where the individual is no longer capable of rational thoughts. This state is popularly known as "frothing."
In the most extreme cases of TDS individuals affected are driven instantly in to the frothing state at the mere mention of Trump, or the current state of reality. There is no real treatment for extreme cases of TDS. The general option of medical professionals is that individuals will need long term sedation. The length of this sedation is still being debated but some suggest it will need to be 2 to 6 years or longer.
One of the more interesting behaviors of those affect by TDS gathered in groups. This seems to amplify the effects of TDS in the individuals. This can lead to spontaneous events of frothing in one or more members of the group. Other individuals in the group spontaneous begin to agreeing with what ever the frothing members say, no matter how ridiculous this may be. This behavior is known as "sheeping" and is characterized by spontaneous and uncontrollable nodding of the head in the sheeping individuals.
Yes, it's TDS and it is strong in this one. Sometimes I wonder if these people come up with on their own or have to be told this. Then I wonder those that are told, how warped to you have to be led down this merry path of disillusionment.
I imagine in a few years once all those with this level of TDS get the help those so desperately need, that there will be several large studies on the effects of mass hysteria. The eight years that the Trump presidency will probably encompass will probably be studied for the next hundred years as an example social dysfunction by a minority of the population and how it effects the larger portion.
Actually, we know exactly what Pence's views on women and gays are. If Pence ever does become president, there will be a lot of SJWs longing for the good ol' days under President Trump.
Yet they are the 5th largest economy.
Yet, still lead the nation in poverty and homelessness.
https://www.ocregister.com/201...
Gosh, you moon-hoaxers are almost as bad as flat-earthers.
Screw the moon-hoaxer idiots. Lets just get to the part where the astronauts meet the aliens....