for what it's worth, that's a huge concern. The fuel in the spent fuel pool in the reactor 4 building could be exposed if there is another earthquake and the pool cracks (more than it already has). The building apparently isn't the most stable structure in the world, right now.
Problem is that the groundwater naturally flowing through the site appears to be flowing through the cracked foundations. The reactor cores in two, if not three, of those reactors are a pile of slag sitting in the bottom of the containment building. They continue to flush cooling water through the containment, in spite of the perforated reactor vessels and cracked containment building foundations. Some of this water is unnaccounted for -- more goes in than comes out in at least one reactor -- so clearly it's entering the ground. In addition, the leaks from the tanks are contaminating the groundwater stream(s). What they're trying to do is stop the movement of groundwater through the site.
fair enough. I can't argue with that; although, there have been a number of analysis done which showed that without the support of people who happened to be living in the San Francisco bay area, and the liberal support of the University of California system, Silicon Valley could not have happened. Attempts to replicate it have failed due to a lack of the right people or lack of economic support.
That will always be true for enthusiasts. And not just in the IT industry (car analogy coming...) People like old cars. Why? Because they're easier to modify and tinker with.
The components in the Dell Inspiron One's and XPS all in one are modular. The dissassembly instructions are pretty straight forward, much simpler than a laptop. Other than the mainboard, most of the accessory components are standard off the shelf parts. The processor is socketed. standard memory modules and hard disk. I bought one for my wife; and, I wouldn't have considered it, if I thought it might end up scrapped one day for failure of something as simple as a fan.
Engineers cluster where the jobs are. So do most people. We're sort of past the question, which came first, the population or the jobs? Businesses build where they can acquire (1)people (2)space (3)economic benefits (4)access to transportation for goods. That describes most of the urban population centers (although #2 might require building in the suburbs).
Thank you for the added information. The article was disengenuous if they quoted the construction budget; the operations budget is an entirely different allocation.
In the U.S. there are some protections at the Federal level (base minimum wage, worker safety, anti-discrimination); but, most of the employment laws are set at the state level. Employment regulations in California are very different from, say, Alabama, or Illinois, or compared to Virginia (where I am).
Removing benefits is not a way to keep your employees happy. Changing the terms of employment at contract renewal happens sometimes though. I hope you all work that out. Disallowing inspections for worker safety and working conditions... That's just not right.
They're probably not working 40 hour work weeks. When you're in a remote site like that, you tend to work all the time. I would not be surprised if they're working 12 hour days, 7 days a week while they're on-site.
Let us forget that they're in Chile for a minute.
If you're going to do a comparison to American salaries, $12.50/hr buys you an assembler / fabricator, not a technician. The work "technician" does get mis-used; but, if we assume that the title is correctly applied... A technician will draw a salary 2x to 3x that amount, depending on their skill level. A really good, experienced RF technician should be pulling a salary that's well into the low end of the engineering salary scale. That's before any premium for working in a remote site like the one ALMA is situated on.
Now for the hard part -- scaling for cost of living. If they are technicians from South America, where the cost of living is lower, you might argue that the salaries should be lower. If a substantial number of the technicians are Japanese, Europeans or American, you can expect to have to pay a salary comparable to salaries in their native country; otherwise, they have no reason to come to Chile (other than for the experience of working at ALMA). If there is a mix, and there is no salary parity -- Chilean's are paid 1/3 of Japanese technician's pay -- then you end up with something like the current situation. To avoid that you might have to pay everyone on the same salary scale.
Don't be silly. The genetic father remains the childs father even if the father regenerates as a female. Similarly the genetic mother remains the childs mother after regeneration, irregardless. What you label them is strictly a function of culture.
Woz and Jobs didn't invent anything but they were on the bleeding edge of commoditization of computers. The Apple II was one of the first computers available to the general public, which the average person could buy and use. The Commodore PET came out about the same time. There were a couple of CP/M based machines available a few years prior; but, in the 1975 timeframe even a CP/M system tended to be hideously expensive. It was unlikely anyone outside of a serious hobbyist would buy one for personal use. Machines like the Altair 8800 were the smallest and cheapest computers available at the time the Apple II was introduced, and a complete system could easily cost thousands of dollars.
For the sake of full disclosure: I was around to see all of this (as a teenager) and learned on these machines.
I spend too many hours a day sitting in a chair. I can use all the exercise I can get, even if it's just holding my arms in the air and waving them around.
your PV plant does have a cooling requirement as it is not 100% efficient. The waste heat is radiated to the surrounding air and carried off via convection.
Living within 10 miles of a 800MW oil burning power plant. Yes it's in the minority and right now it's only used for peak loads and as a backup for when they have to shut down one of the nuclear reactors used for base load in our region.
I'm within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant with two reactors, a shipyard that builds nuclear powered ships, and a naval base with numerous nuclear reactors floating at the docks. I have not seen any such document for any of my four children. What I have signed is a waiver giving them permission to treat my children medically in an emergency, which is a no brainer. If your district specifically calls out treatment "in the event of a nuclear meltdown" then your school board has issues.
Actually, because of their nature nuclear plants tend to run at a lower thermodynamic efficiency than coal plants. They dump a few percentage points more thermal energy into the environment per unit of electrical energy produced. You need a somewhat larger thermal sink for a nuclear plant than you do for a coal plant of the same generating capacity.
You would have to shut down the reactor a week or more in advance to have it cool down enough to not need continuous active cooling. Having a good, well thought out backup power system is a better solution.
Also mention the fines run into the $millions per instance and that willfully knowingly putting violating ITAR regulations can result in jail time for the responsible persons (read as the managers).
My expectations are simpler than all out war. At some point a terrorist group will manage to get their hands on a nuke. The easiest delivery method is cargo container. One day, one of our ports is going to disappear. I hope I'm wrong...
There's no engineering in your proposal. It's just an off-the-cuff suggestion. Can't be done at that site, without substantial infrastructure added; and, the fuel would need to be sent out for reprocessing before it could be fed into the breeder. There are no reprocessing plants handling commercial fuel in the United States.
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for what it's worth, that's a huge concern. The fuel in the spent fuel pool in the reactor 4 building could be exposed if there is another earthquake and the pool cracks (more than it already has). The building apparently isn't the most stable structure in the world, right now.
A number of countries have offered assistance. Japan has accepted some but have generally turned away the offer.
Problem is that the groundwater naturally flowing through the site appears to be flowing through the cracked foundations. The reactor cores in two, if not three, of those reactors are a pile of slag sitting in the bottom of the containment building. They continue to flush cooling water through the containment, in spite of the perforated reactor vessels and cracked containment building foundations. Some of this water is unnaccounted for -- more goes in than comes out in at least one reactor -- so clearly it's entering the ground. In addition, the leaks from the tanks are contaminating the groundwater stream(s). What they're trying to do is stop the movement of groundwater through the site.
fair enough. I can't argue with that; although, there have been a number of analysis done which showed that without the support of people who happened to be living in the San Francisco bay area, and the liberal support of the University of California system, Silicon Valley could not have happened. Attempts to replicate it have failed due to a lack of the right people or lack of economic support.
That will always be true for enthusiasts. And not just in the IT industry (car analogy coming...) People like old cars. Why? Because they're easier to modify and tinker with.
The components in the Dell Inspiron One's and XPS all in one are modular. The dissassembly instructions are pretty straight forward, much simpler than a laptop. Other than the mainboard, most of the accessory components are standard off the shelf parts. The processor is socketed. standard memory modules and hard disk. I bought one for my wife; and, I wouldn't have considered it, if I thought it might end up scrapped one day for failure of something as simple as a fan.
Engineers cluster where the jobs are. So do most people. We're sort of past the question, which came first, the population or the jobs? Businesses build where they can acquire (1)people (2)space (3)economic benefits (4)access to transportation for goods. That describes most of the urban population centers (although #2 might require building in the suburbs).
I wonder if he considered the effects due to the radiation in the tank, on the PZT elements used in the ultrasonic transducers.
Thank you for the added information. The article was disengenuous if they quoted the construction budget; the operations budget is an entirely different allocation.
In the U.S. there are some protections at the Federal level (base minimum wage, worker safety, anti-discrimination); but, most of the employment laws are set at the state level. Employment regulations in California are very different from, say, Alabama, or Illinois, or compared to Virginia (where I am).
Removing benefits is not a way to keep your employees happy. Changing the terms of employment at contract renewal happens sometimes though. I hope you all work that out. Disallowing inspections for worker safety and working conditions... That's just not right.
They're probably not working 40 hour work weeks. When you're in a remote site like that, you tend to work all the time. I would not be surprised if they're working 12 hour days, 7 days a week while they're on-site.
Let us forget that they're in Chile for a minute.
If you're going to do a comparison to American salaries, $12.50/hr buys you an assembler / fabricator, not a technician. The work "technician" does get mis-used; but, if we assume that the title is correctly applied... A technician will draw a salary 2x to 3x that amount, depending on their skill level. A really good, experienced RF technician should be pulling a salary that's well into the low end of the engineering salary scale. That's before any premium for working in a remote site like the one ALMA is situated on.
Now for the hard part -- scaling for cost of living. If they are technicians from South America, where the cost of living is lower, you might argue that the salaries should be lower. If a substantial number of the technicians are Japanese, Europeans or American, you can expect to have to pay a salary comparable to salaries in their native country; otherwise, they have no reason to come to Chile (other than for the experience of working at ALMA). If there is a mix, and there is no salary parity -- Chilean's are paid 1/3 of Japanese technician's pay -- then you end up with something like the current situation. To avoid that you might have to pay everyone on the same salary scale.
FlexLM is used for Cadence OrCAD and the Xilinx dev environment as well.
It's too damned hot. Let's all start jumping up and down, start the Earth a rockin' and induce an ice age.
is there a New London in the Firefly universe?
Don't be silly. The genetic father remains the childs father even if the father regenerates as a female. Similarly the genetic mother remains the childs mother after regeneration, irregardless. What you label them is strictly a function of culture.
This description is not specific to just Samsung. Other manufacturers follow the same pattern with their smart TVs
Woz and Jobs didn't invent anything but they were on the bleeding edge of commoditization of computers. The Apple II was one of the first computers available to the general public, which the average person could buy and use. The Commodore PET came out about the same time. There were a couple of CP/M based machines available a few years prior; but, in the 1975 timeframe even a CP/M system tended to be hideously expensive. It was unlikely anyone outside of a serious hobbyist would buy one for personal use. Machines like the Altair 8800 were the smallest and cheapest computers available at the time the Apple II was introduced, and a complete system could easily cost thousands of dollars.
For the sake of full disclosure: I was around to see all of this (as a teenager) and learned on these machines.
I spend too many hours a day sitting in a chair. I can use all the exercise I can get, even if it's just holding my arms in the air and waving them around.
your PV plant does have a cooling requirement as it is not 100% efficient. The waste heat is radiated to the surrounding air and carried off via convection.
Living within 10 miles of a 800MW oil burning power plant. Yes it's in the minority and right now it's only used for peak loads and as a backup for when they have to shut down one of the nuclear reactors used for base load in our region.
I'm within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant with two reactors, a shipyard that builds nuclear powered ships, and a naval base with numerous nuclear reactors floating at the docks. I have not seen any such document for any of my four children. What I have signed is a waiver giving them permission to treat my children medically in an emergency, which is a no brainer. If your district specifically calls out treatment "in the event of a nuclear meltdown" then your school board has issues.
Actually, because of their nature nuclear plants tend to run at a lower thermodynamic efficiency than coal plants. They dump a few percentage points more thermal energy into the environment per unit of electrical energy produced. You need a somewhat larger thermal sink for a nuclear plant than you do for a coal plant of the same generating capacity.
You would have to shut down the reactor a week or more in advance to have it cool down enough to not need continuous active cooling. Having a good, well thought out backup power system is a better solution.
Also mention the fines run into the $millions per instance and that willfully knowingly putting violating ITAR regulations can result in jail time for the responsible persons (read as the managers).
My expectations are simpler than all out war. At some point a terrorist group will manage to get their hands on a nuke. The easiest delivery method is cargo container. One day, one of our ports is going to disappear. I hope I'm wrong...
There's no engineering in your proposal. It's just an off-the-cuff suggestion. Can't be done at that site, without substantial infrastructure added; and, the fuel would need to be sent out for reprocessing before it could be fed into the breeder. There are no reprocessing plants handling commercial fuel in the United States.