I tried that last summer and I can tell you shouldn't do this. My parents still have a hard time believing they lived there for 12 years and never noticed the 500m wide lake behind the house.
Scientists are looking in the wrong direction in this matter. Like in so many other breakthroughs, they just have to watch how nature does it. What in nature can be totaly invisble without any kind of complex technology or huge power consumption? Easy: keys.
I think that's overstating it a bit. The rational reasons for not reprocessing fuel revolve around the following issues:
1. Transporting used fuel to the reprocessing center and back.
So build a powerplant and reprocessing center at the same site.
2. Production and separation of enormous quantities of Plutonium, which needs to be carefully guarded due to proliferation and terrorism risks.
Ever heard of the concept "just in time"? Why should we produce a large stockpile if a relative small reserve at each plant would be sufficent? Secondly, reactors don't need pure plutonium. The reprocessing plant could make and store MOX, which can be used in a reactor but is worthless for nuclear weapons.
3. Some hazards in the reprocessing itself. There have been several serious accidents in reprocessing plants.
People get buried alive in coal mines, or fall off oil rigs and drown. Oil tankers can leak. Riscs are part of living.
4. Reprocessing only really starts to make good economic sense if you bring fast breeder reactors online, and those have safety issues of their own.
Governments can invest in such technologies, even if it costs more today, it may be a lot cheaper in the long run, especialy considering how much easier it is to recycle fuel directly from a reactor rather than digging it back up and seperating it from its barrels.
it is assuming that some other intelligent life has already probed (as it were) Mercury?
You don't watch the news very often do you? Missed the whole "Earth makes contact with ET" news? The biggest news of the millenium and you missed it? How are you ever going to explain that to your grandchildren...
The Headlines:
A hacker known by the name BENJYMOUSE has today been arrested for defacing a popular news site. The 2 SWAT teams were deemed necessary as hackers are known to be armed and dangerouse and usualy in company of muslim terrorists. Only 2400 rounds were fired and a mere 25 bystanders were killed. Rumors that the terrorist-hacker was playing a loud videogame instead of firing his as yet undiscovered arsenal of weapons show that these terrorists are not just evil, but also lazy.
The hacker will be put on trail for possesion of illegal invisible weapons of mass destruction.
One of the breaking news items was that scientists were working on making televisions that could "hang on a wall like a picture frame", and we would see it homes within 5 to 10 years.
So he was off by a few decades. Happens to the best of us. Visions of the future don't always show a calendar, you know.
And most likely subsequently be devoured by a strange new lifeform due to the entity's attraction to my red shirt...
Be warned that if you happen to be dumb enough te wear a red shirt while using startrek-like technology and get killed, you will be nominated for a Darwin Award.
True but incomplete. Society rewards people who take big risks and succeed. Those that take risks and don't succeed get a Darwin-award or a bankruptcy.
(source: homeless guy living near the subway station)
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I tried that last summer and I can tell you shouldn't do this. My parents still have a hard time believing they lived there for 12 years and never noticed the 500m wide lake behind the house.
Great! They make a picture of Earth from 6.4 billion kilometers away and it happens to be from the other side of the planet. I wanted to be in it!
Scientists are looking in the wrong direction in this matter. Like in so many other breakthroughs, they just have to watch how nature does it. What in nature can be totaly invisble without any kind of complex technology or huge power consumption? Easy: keys.
Great, now we can't eat humans anymore?
Carries 2 bricks
Hi, I'm with the Terrorist Disarming Force. Would you please drop your pants for a minute. This isn't going to hurt much. For me at least.
Loud bang, followed by sounds of terrible agony
Here's some aspirine. And put some ice on it.
1. Transporting used fuel to the reprocessing center and back.
So build a powerplant and reprocessing center at the same site.
2. Production and separation of enormous quantities of Plutonium, which needs to be carefully guarded due to proliferation and terrorism risks.
Ever heard of the concept "just in time"? Why should we produce a large stockpile if a relative small reserve at each plant would be sufficent? Secondly, reactors don't need pure plutonium. The reprocessing plant could make and store MOX, which can be used in a reactor but is worthless for nuclear weapons.
3. Some hazards in the reprocessing itself. There have been several serious accidents in reprocessing plants.
People get buried alive in coal mines, or fall off oil rigs and drown. Oil tankers can leak. Riscs are part of living.
4. Reprocessing only really starts to make good economic sense if you bring fast breeder reactors online, and those have safety issues of their own.
Governments can invest in such technologies, even if it costs more today, it may be a lot cheaper in the long run, especialy considering how much easier it is to recycle fuel directly from a reactor rather than digging it back up and seperating it from its barrels.
It'll inspire people to learn foreign languages. Really even an idioot could see that.
It's a good thing because:
1. It'll inspire people to be more creative.
2. People will be more willing to learn foreign languages.
MS is doing right on this one. If you doubt this, it's because you are a klootzak.
Offcourse not! Why do you question the intellect of the UK government?
Oh, seems I can't do brainsurgery and read /. at the same time...
Simple, use bits with more than 2 different values. 10 might be a good number.
You don't watch the news very often do you? Missed the whole "Earth makes contact with ET" news? The biggest news of the millenium and you missed it? How are you ever going to explain that to your grandchildren...
The Headlines:
A hacker known by the name BENJYMOUSE has today been arrested for defacing a popular news site. The 2 SWAT teams were deemed necessary as hackers are known to be armed and dangerouse and usualy in company of muslim terrorists. Only 2400 rounds were fired and a mere 25 bystanders were killed. Rumors that the terrorist-hacker was playing a loud videogame instead of firing his as yet undiscovered arsenal of weapons show that these terrorists are not just evil, but also lazy.
The hacker will be put on trail for possesion of illegal invisible weapons of mass destruction.
So he was off by a few decades. Happens to the best of us. Visions of the future don't always show a calendar, you know.
Be warned that if you happen to be dumb enough te wear a red shirt while using startrek-like technology and get killed, you will be nominated for a Darwin Award.
Great idea! Here are some plastic bags...
You are so nominated for the Evil-Bastard-Awards of 2009.
True but incomplete. Society rewards people who take big risks and succeed. Those that take risks and don't succeed get a Darwin-award or a bankruptcy.
(source: homeless guy living near the subway station)
Skin color doesn't make you a criminal. But it does determine which crime you're suspected of. Consult the following table for reference.
White: financial crimes
Black: gang member
Asian: computer hacker
Native American: Being native american.
Fine, we'll replace 'dark' with 'mystery'. Actually Mystery Matter does have a nice ring to it.
"drafted" is a very PC term for being a POW now?
Why, I never knew a vacuum could implode...
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( )The intervieuw
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