The breeder program would allow the longest-lasting wastes to be re-used as fuel. You don't need something that is going to be geologically active for a half-million years, if it becomes inert in 300 years.
There's still the question of where to dispose of items that have undergone massive neutron flux in today's PWR designs (such as the reactor vessel), but these are relatively low-level waste in comparison to spent fuel rods. The reactor vessel from the Trojan Nuclear Generating Station was encased in concrete foam, shrinkwrapped, shipped up the Columbia on a barge, and buried at the DOE Hanford Site upon it's decommissioning, for example.
You should work on your reading comprehension. Western reactors is what he said. The RMBK design (Chernobyl) was not one of these. It didn't even have a containment dome, which would have prevented the massive ecological nightmare that NIMBYs like yourself always parade in front of everyone.
The physics of a supercritical mass dictate that an accidental detonation cannot occur. The best you can hope for is a dirty-bomb type event, but if it happens on two submarines that crash into each other, it goes to the ocean floor.
Submarines with damaged ballast tanks are no longer buoyant.
Except that this could very easily turn into a new futures market because of the "trade" portion of "Cap and Trade."
People buy credits. People hang onto credits until someone comes looking for them, because there's no more to purchase under the cap. The price of available credits goes up. Speculators win, US taxpayers lose through higher prices.
Amazing that with a name like "cap and trade" that people neither understand the word "cap" nor "trade", yet continue to speak as if they are knowledgeable.
Didn't intend for this to be an advertisement for people to move to Oregon; I meant for this to be a correction for typical New York City think - that Los Angeles stretches from the 35th to 45th parallel, and the Canadian Border happens to have shifted from the 49th down to the 45th.
In fact, it's quite the opposite. I agree with former Oregon Governor Tom McCall, who rather famously was quoted as saying "We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going."
Oh, and that whole Urban Growth Boundary thing, where we actually told Robert Moses to stuff it and cancelled freeways rather than cutting up neighborhoods filled with non-white people such as the South Bronx.
Hint: "out west" consists of more than California. I envision exactly nobody leaving the Pacific Northwest for anything in the midwest.
Oh, by the way: Portland (and Oregon at-large) pretty much pioneered the urban planning and growth boundary system that you are cheerleading with your car-hate and enviro-spew in the 1970s.
I knew this comparison would be made eventually. The difference is that the situation was peacefully resolved, and didn't end with riots, dead protestors, civil unrest, suppression of communication, and who knows what tomorrow brings.
It's a rather amazing thing that the United States can shift power every four to eight years, without a single bullet fired in malice.
"The US military did not play a significant role in Europe."
I'm pretty sure that the United Kingdom, France, Italy, The Netherlands, and Western Germany; as well as the 101st Airborne and Patton's Third Army, respectfully disagree.
I'm sure that Apple won't find a way to break this in an iTunes update down the road. They certainly have no history of breaking unlicensed addons... Nope...
If it was a '60s technology nuke, we'd have something to really worry about. Nuclear weapons of the 1960s were small enough to put on a rocket, and had large enough yields to take out an entire metro area.
No, this is 1940s technology. Pure fission - no fusion boosting, no multi-stage. Incredibly wasteful of nuclear material in terms of efficiency. Likely too big to fit on any delivery system outside of a big ass truck or airplane which could be spotted and destroyed long before you could use the damn thing.
It's a weapon of fear, not something meant for actual field use, much like the 10+ MT warheads of the past arsenals of the US and Russia.
What's great, is that some shows do manage to do this. See: HBO's "The Wire"
They wrote five seasons, they filmed five seasons, and then they got out. It wraps up perfectly in the end, and is probably one of the best series to ever be created IMO.
It's a very tricky thing to get to Hubble. It's orbit and inclination puts it in a position that takes roughly half of Shuttle's fuel to get to it. They burn a bit wrong, and they're screwed; or perhaps never get to Hubble in the first place.
Either way, if they get there, and have a Columbia-type event with foam / ice / etc, the ISS is not an option as a lifeboat - they couldn't get there with the amount of fuel they have.
This mission is as dangerous as it gets in Earth orbit (currently).
That "bring it down" part is the problem. It's the size of a school bus, and the idea of re-entry vibration on it's delicate systems would likely make it a very heavy piece of useless junk by the time you got it back down.
Pu-239 is what is used in warheads. It's rather stable (half life of ~24,000 years) but is a fissile substance which you can assemble into a supercritical form.
Pu-238 is relatively unstable (half life of ~88 years), so it gives off quite a bit of heat as it breaks down. Thus, it is used for RTGs (Radioisotope Thermal Generators).
For starters, maybe if corporations started paying their taxes, we could take down the debt some, or maybe we could lower taxes on the rest of us.
More likely, it will just mean increased spending. Paying down debt doesn't get you re-elected every two years (Congress) or every six years (Senate). Pork does.
Have you ever met a politician that didn't have unfunded pet projects that they would love to use new sources of revenue to fund, rather than pay down that boring debt? I haven't.
Sony Music has announced a lawsuit against Microsoft using the DMCA, claiming that the new software patch circumvents horribly inadequate copyright protection.
Good thing Apple has a license to everything Microsoft, except for only the newest stuff, eh?
Long filename support on FAT and FAT32 would definitely fall under the cross licensing agreement that was struck to make the QuickTime / WindowsMedia lawsuit go away. If Microsoft goes after Apple, there's a good chance that not only will Apple win, but they'd also win a nice fat breach of contract suit.
1. Gravity pushes DOWN not SIDEWAYS. When heavy stuff falls, it falls straight down. Last time I saw the video, New York wasn't in the middle of the largest hurricane ever experienced, so it's no surprise that when the buildings collapsed, that they would fall straight down rather than fall sideways like a couple billion-ton dominos
2. Yes, the fires would have to burn hotter to melt the steel. Unfortunately, you don't have to completely melt steel in order for it to lose tensile strength, eh? All you have to do is weaken it to the point it can't hold the 30+ floors worth of mass on top of where the plane hit, and you get a classic pancake collapse, which is exactly what happened. Oh, and the steel used was calculated to be enough to hold up what's on top of it, not what's on top of it plus a shitload of kinetic energy from it falling.
However, it's not limited to people of darker pigmentation of skin. I had some douche security guard accost me for having a camera at Mt. Tabor Park here in Portland, and I'm as white as they come.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to take a camera here...
Needless to say, I gave him the standard "am I under arrest? No? Then you don't get to see my camera, and you don't get to stop be from being in this publicly owned park unless you like Title 42 lawsuits."
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Whoops - that should read "geologically inactive"
The breeder program would allow the longest-lasting wastes to be re-used as fuel. You don't need something that is going to be geologically active for a half-million years, if it becomes inert in 300 years.
There's still the question of where to dispose of items that have undergone massive neutron flux in today's PWR designs (such as the reactor vessel), but these are relatively low-level waste in comparison to spent fuel rods. The reactor vessel from the Trojan Nuclear Generating Station was encased in concrete foam, shrinkwrapped, shipped up the Columbia on a barge, and buried at the DOE Hanford Site upon it's decommissioning, for example.
You should work on your reading comprehension. Western reactors is what he said. The RMBK design (Chernobyl) was not one of these. It didn't even have a containment dome, which would have prevented the massive ecological nightmare that NIMBYs like yourself always parade in front of everyone.
Would that make them Text Offenders?
The physics of a supercritical mass dictate that an accidental detonation cannot occur. The best you can hope for is a dirty-bomb type event, but if it happens on two submarines that crash into each other, it goes to the ocean floor.
Submarines with damaged ballast tanks are no longer buoyant.
Except that this could very easily turn into a new futures market because of the "trade" portion of "Cap and Trade."
People buy credits. People hang onto credits until someone comes looking for them, because there's no more to purchase under the cap. The price of available credits goes up. Speculators win, US taxpayers lose through higher prices.
Amazing that with a name like "cap and trade" that people neither understand the word "cap" nor "trade", yet continue to speak as if they are knowledgeable.
Didn't intend for this to be an advertisement for people to move to Oregon; I meant for this to be a correction for typical New York City think - that Los Angeles stretches from the 35th to 45th parallel, and the Canadian Border happens to have shifted from the 49th down to the 45th.
In fact, it's quite the opposite. I agree with former Oregon Governor Tom McCall, who rather famously was quoted as saying "We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going."
Oh, and that whole Urban Growth Boundary thing, where we actually told Robert Moses to stuff it and cancelled freeways rather than cutting up neighborhoods filled with non-white people such as the South Bronx.
They have a lot of urban sprawl due to automobiles in biblical times?
Context, man. Context.
Hint: "out west" consists of more than California. I envision exactly nobody leaving the Pacific Northwest for anything in the midwest.
Oh, by the way: Portland (and Oregon at-large) pretty much pioneered the urban planning and growth boundary system that you are cheerleading with your car-hate and enviro-spew in the 1970s.
I knew this comparison would be made eventually. The difference is that the situation was peacefully resolved, and didn't end with riots, dead protestors, civil unrest, suppression of communication, and who knows what tomorrow brings.
It's a rather amazing thing that the United States can shift power every four to eight years, without a single bullet fired in malice.
"The US military did not play a significant role in Europe."
I'm pretty sure that the United Kingdom, France, Italy, The Netherlands, and Western Germany; as well as the 101st Airborne and Patton's Third Army, respectfully disagree.
enter a static route for your company subnets?
I'm sure that Apple won't find a way to break this in an iTunes update down the road. They certainly have no history of breaking unlicensed addons... Nope...
If it was a '60s technology nuke, we'd have something to really worry about. Nuclear weapons of the 1960s were small enough to put on a rocket, and had large enough yields to take out an entire metro area.
No, this is 1940s technology. Pure fission - no fusion boosting, no multi-stage. Incredibly wasteful of nuclear material in terms of efficiency. Likely too big to fit on any delivery system outside of a big ass truck or airplane which could be spotted and destroyed long before you could use the damn thing.
It's a weapon of fear, not something meant for actual field use, much like the 10+ MT warheads of the past arsenals of the US and Russia.
What's great, is that some shows do manage to do this. See: HBO's "The Wire"
They wrote five seasons, they filmed five seasons, and then they got out. It wraps up perfectly in the end, and is probably one of the best series to ever be created IMO.
Prison Break. Ugh.
First season: Good. /delete
Second season: Okay.
Third season: Sure. Whatever.
Fourth season: WTF is this shit?
It's a very tricky thing to get to Hubble. It's orbit and inclination puts it in a position that takes roughly half of Shuttle's fuel to get to it. They burn a bit wrong, and they're screwed; or perhaps never get to Hubble in the first place.
Either way, if they get there, and have a Columbia-type event with foam / ice / etc, the ISS is not an option as a lifeboat - they couldn't get there with the amount of fuel they have.
This mission is as dangerous as it gets in Earth orbit (currently).
That "bring it down" part is the problem. It's the size of a school bus, and the idea of re-entry vibration on it's delicate systems would likely make it a very heavy piece of useless junk by the time you got it back down.
"or lets the astronauts engineer on the spot solutions."
Like the first time they serviced it, and couldn't get the damn doors closed without using a come-along strap.
(Yes, this happened)
Wrong.
Wrong wrong wrong.
Pu-238 â Pu 239.
Pu-239 is what is used in warheads. It's rather stable (half life of ~24,000 years) but is a fissile substance which you can assemble into a supercritical form.
Pu-238 is relatively unstable (half life of ~88 years), so it gives off quite a bit of heat as it breaks down. Thus, it is used for RTGs (Radioisotope Thermal Generators).
Different isotopes are different.
For starters, maybe if corporations started paying their taxes, we could take down the debt some, or maybe we could lower taxes on the rest of us.
More likely, it will just mean increased spending. Paying down debt doesn't get you re-elected every two years (Congress) or every six years (Senate). Pork does.
Have you ever met a politician that didn't have unfunded pet projects that they would love to use new sources of revenue to fund, rather than pay down that boring debt? I haven't.
Sony Music has announced a lawsuit against Microsoft using the DMCA, claiming that the new software patch circumvents horribly inadequate copyright protection.
Good thing Apple has a license to everything Microsoft, except for only the newest stuff, eh?
Long filename support on FAT and FAT32 would definitely fall under the cross licensing agreement that was struck to make the QuickTime / WindowsMedia lawsuit go away. If Microsoft goes after Apple, there's a good chance that not only will Apple win, but they'd also win a nice fat breach of contract suit.
Two things that make you look like a retard:
1. Gravity pushes DOWN not SIDEWAYS. When heavy stuff falls, it falls straight down. Last time I saw the video, New York wasn't in the middle of the largest hurricane ever experienced, so it's no surprise that when the buildings collapsed, that they would fall straight down rather than fall sideways like a couple billion-ton dominos
2. Yes, the fires would have to burn hotter to melt the steel. Unfortunately, you don't have to completely melt steel in order for it to lose tensile strength, eh? All you have to do is weaken it to the point it can't hold the 30+ floors worth of mass on top of where the plane hit, and you get a classic pancake collapse, which is exactly what happened. Oh, and the steel used was calculated to be enough to hold up what's on top of it, not what's on top of it plus a shitload of kinetic energy from it falling.
Use your damn brain.
This is absolutely awful.
However, it's not limited to people of darker pigmentation of skin. I had some douche security guard accost me for having a camera at Mt. Tabor Park here in Portland, and I'm as white as they come.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to take a camera here...
Needless to say, I gave him the standard "am I under arrest? No? Then you don't get to see my camera, and you don't get to stop be from being in this publicly owned park unless you like Title 42 lawsuits."