Except that nobody has managed to do it. India managed a.2 kt fizzle. The US got a limited success, but it was using a part plutonium pit. Also U-233 has a critical mass something like 50% higher than plutonium, so probably pretty easy to for inspectors to detect.
How exactly is a nuclear power plant supposed to kill millions of people? It's pretty hard for me to imagine any incident worse than Chernobyl, and nobody I am aware of aside from maybe some ancient alien believers has put anywhere near that death toll on it. Hint: it would be pretty hard to make a nuclear reactor explode like a fission bomb, and even if it did, to get to "millions" dead you probably need to go with a thermonuclear detonation.
How about structuring regulations and policy such that operators are rewarded for operating in a safe manner according to current best practice? Then pay the inspectors bonuses for finding issues. Nobody leaving the inspectorate allowed to work for the industry for say, five years following departure to minimize the revolving door/regulatory capture/graft issue. Actual, active congressional oversight would be nice.
There, now I'm out of whatever it was in my pipe. Time to order a yummy pepperoni pizza.
My strong preference is to replace coal and uranium nuclear with thorium LFTR. I haven't seen much that makes me think it not doable, and certainly the Chinese and Indians seem to think it promising. Do we really want to be stuck licensing their designs in 15 years because of a bunch of NIMBYs, fossil fuel profiteers and brainless green/Luddites? Yes, keep investing in solar, wind, geothermal, etc. too. And in a global power transmission grid.
Seriously, we have solved harder problems. What we seem to lack is leadership who'll point the way and stay the course.
I'll be happy to see all N/B/C weapons disposed of, just as soon as someone figures out a way to verify that it has actually been done, and to detect when new ones are created. In any case, the US advantage in the apparently acceptable variety of turn-the-other-guy-into-pink-mist weapons is such that only small third-world countries have the slightest chance of doing this. Which leaves the "icky" N/B/C stuff around, and therefore requires at least some capabilities, if only for research and development of countermeasures.
Easy. Volunteer citizens armed with Second Amendment goodness shoot the freeloaders dead when they try to use the ER without insurance. Problem disappears quickly./satire (no, the problem actually wouldn't disappear quickly)
Last I checked, Japan is still around. Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The hand wringing about the atomic bombs obscures the fact that far more damage was done to Tokyo, Dresden and Hamburg by incendiary munitions.
By the way, have you heard of the concept of manners, or do you use "imbecile" as a term of endearment? In which case, fuck off, you pathetic poser.
Oh for mod points right now. And a great big "Fuck you very much," to the Nixon administration for derailing the thorium reactor program just to enrich a crony in California. And massively screwing up health care in this country with a sweetheart deal for Kaiser (more cronyism for CA). And the escalation of the "war on drugs." I used to think Nixon maybe wasn't so bad. I have learned.
Not on a switched network unless you get on a specially configured port. It has been a long time since most wired networks had shared access. Wireless however is generally a shared medium.
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Sure, go and inject reason and logic to a perfectly good paranoid rant. I hope you're proud of yourself.
Except that nobody has managed to do it. India managed a .2 kt fizzle. The US got a limited success, but it was using a part plutonium pit. Also U-233 has a critical mass something like 50% higher than plutonium, so probably pretty easy to for inspectors to detect.
How exactly is a nuclear power plant supposed to kill millions of people? It's pretty hard for me to imagine any incident worse than Chernobyl, and nobody I am aware of aside from maybe some ancient alien believers has put anywhere near that death toll on it. Hint: it would be pretty hard to make a nuclear reactor explode like a fission bomb, and even if it did, to get to "millions" dead you probably need to go with a thermonuclear detonation.
How about structuring regulations and policy such that operators are rewarded for operating in a safe manner according to current best practice? Then pay the inspectors bonuses for finding issues. Nobody leaving the inspectorate allowed to work for the industry for say, five years following departure to minimize the revolving door/regulatory capture/graft issue. Actual, active congressional oversight would be nice.
There, now I'm out of whatever it was in my pipe. Time to order a yummy pepperoni pizza.
My strong preference is to replace coal and uranium nuclear with thorium LFTR. I haven't seen much that makes me think it not doable, and certainly the Chinese and Indians seem to think it promising. Do we really want to be stuck licensing their designs in 15 years because of a bunch of NIMBYs, fossil fuel profiteers and brainless green/Luddites? Yes, keep investing in solar, wind, geothermal, etc. too. And in a global power transmission grid.
Seriously, we have solved harder problems. What we seem to lack is leadership who'll point the way and stay the course.
Sure, haven't you seen West Side Story? The crack must have been responsible for all the dancing and singing.
So which two of Alaska, N. Dakota and S. Dakota were in the old Confederacy?
So you only believe half the lies you are being told? Well, that's a nice start. Keep going.
How many civilians has the US gassed lately?
I'll be happy to see all N/B/C weapons disposed of, just as soon as someone figures out a way to verify that it has actually been done, and to detect when new ones are created. In any case, the US advantage in the apparently acceptable variety of turn-the-other-guy-into-pink-mist weapons is such that only small third-world countries have the slightest chance of doing this. Which leaves the "icky" N/B/C stuff around, and therefore requires at least some capabilities, if only for research and development of countermeasures.
You've got that reversed: Cones are color sensitive and slower responding. Rods are monochromatic. Reference.
Commander LaForge, is that you?
Easy. Volunteer citizens armed with Second Amendment goodness shoot the freeloaders dead when they try to use the ER without insurance. Problem disappears quickly. /satire (no, the problem actually wouldn't disappear quickly)
If you're an investor not selling during a spike, you're holding it wrong.
I have always thought a double negative version of this was more accurate: You don't get what you don't pay for.
So corruption, asshattery and hubris weren't problems in this country until after 1945? Ahh, the good old days.
I'd also suggest modding GP, "You Must be New Here."
RIAA, is that you?
Those same politcos screwing with NASA's budget constantly get on TV and scream how bloated government can't get anything done.
FTFY.
So you go and shoot the hungry brown people. Presto, they're not hungry and in poverty anymore.
Last I checked, Japan is still around. Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The hand wringing about the atomic bombs obscures the fact that far more damage was done to Tokyo, Dresden and Hamburg by incendiary munitions.
By the way, have you heard of the concept of manners, or do you use "imbecile" as a term of endearment? In which case, fuck off, you pathetic poser.
Which one would that be?
Nice rant. Have any actual evidence, Mr. AC?
Oh for mod points right now. And a great big "Fuck you very much," to the Nixon administration for derailing the thorium reactor program just to enrich a crony in California. And massively screwing up health care in this country with a sweetheart deal for Kaiser (more cronyism for CA). And the escalation of the "war on drugs." I used to think Nixon maybe wasn't so bad. I have learned.
Not on a switched network unless you get on a specially configured port. It has been a long time since most wired networks had shared access. Wireless however is generally a shared medium.
Look at that. Amdahl's law applies to plants!
But in the town it was well known that when he got home at night his fat and psychopathic wife would thrash him, within inches of his life...