ooo, white and rectangular with rounded corners; selectable HE, WP and shrapnel apps, and a MagSafe Pin that slides off smoother than a spent penis out of a wet vagina.
but most of the countries that would benefit most from using up the "spent fuel" for peaceful energy are already proliferating nukes like bunnies (U.S., Russia, India, China), some for them to build such reactors, it wouldn't make any difference.
GM of food at the DNA manipulation level is completely unnecessary, old fashioned breeding works just fine. Don't need it, people don't want it. If it were labeled as it must be in many other countries (where it isn't outright banned by those who *aren't* ruled by mega-corporate minions on the take), most people wouldn't buy it. The people have a right to know, and a right to choose.
what a bullshit fairy tale. Various clusters were built of SGI, IBM workstations and DEC vaxstations. There were CADD/CAE groups who liked SGI machine (and others who used PCs and others with Sun) and some of those had SGI servers,. Until 1995, "the mainframe" for physics use outside of the clusters was an Amdahl, IBM mainframe clone on steroids (actually won over competing supercomputer bids!). First PC farm with dual pentium iii at 333MHz was in 1998. I was there.
I'm pro nuclear, but that is not fear mongering, plenty of scenarios could leave reactor unable to be serviced by anyone for more than 72 hours. the solution could be as simple as having the aux tanks in the plant's design to be raised, so no powered pumps needed. The on site water in the plant's design is sufficient to get reactor cooled for the weeks it will take. Why leave anything to chance, have unattended safe and complete shutdown and cool-off.
wrong, see document in my post above. disaster will happen if that tank not refilled for weeks (assuming primary coolant not restored), same as any other commercial reactor we have today in that constant cooling needed. the plan after 72 hours is to use other tanks onsite, but that requires pumping and external power.
false, the decay heat curve is fairly flat even before the three days, so cooling MUST go on for WEEKS after shutdown (in this respect same as any gen ii reactor, in fact). this is to be provided by *pumping* water to refill that tank from other external tanks (requires gen power)
You can read about the 0 to 3 days, 3 to 7 days, 7 days and beyond here:
plenty of humans in history have died or been maimed trying poisonous foods. How do we know what plants and animals and preparation processes are poisonous?
This is becoming a huge issue as people realize their governments are in the pockets of mega-corporations that do not have the good of the people in mind. GM crops by Monsanto are designed to be harmed by competitors pesticides while being compatible with Monsanto's. GM crops introduce the dangers of monocultures. GM crops bring patent infringement suits against farmers, bring licensing agreements to control farmer's behaviours. The bad far outweighs any good.
I'm not aware of any plants that have naturally built man-made pesticides into their DNA sequences, nor "intelligently designed" themselves to be harmed by pesticides of Monsanto's competitors while being ok with Monsanto pesticides. Stop your pro-GM hysteria. Stop your mega-corporate worshiping hysteria. Let me guess, you own Monsanto stock.
So China will be where married Westinghouse executves get horny and after getting a taste of young asian pussy, make much trouble for old U.S. wife and family.
Eh, just need to keep the water tank topped off, if pumper firetruck can't reach it then send in fire fighting helicopter. hell, even a bucket brigade on scaffolds should do.
no problem, thorium is just not a much-needed element right now. If you look at the extraction method for thorium, compared to uranium ore->uranium->uranium 235, you find pure thorium is by comparison trivial to obtain and the means MUCH less dangerous.
most spent fuel is in storage, pool or cask. It actually *can* sustain fission under the right conditions, and breed more fuel as it does so. That's why we should *not* make long term storage for it, but instead burn "spent fuel" in truly advanced reactors, which will have the benefit of turning it into waste with mere decades rather than millenia of needed isolation time.
the passive system of the Ap1000 also depends on someone topping off the water tank within 72 hours of primary coolant failure. if that doesn't happen, guess what happens?
wrong. there are passive *designs* like that, but this AP1000 needs someone to top off the passive cooling water tank within 72 hours of coolant failure, else the reactor is fucked
yeah, I hate it those Russians and Europeans announcing all those super-earth and earth-sized worlds around other stars. And while we can only dream of having sent probes to all the planets like they have.
You might be able renegotiate that requirement. Invite your Microsoft MSAA liaison to a gourmet steak restaurant. Then stab him with a steak knife. Fucker.
hahaha, my 1980s computer lab was a partition in the raised floor data center, with glass wall separating us from the 4381 mainframe. It was noisy, windy, cold, painfully bright and a long walk outside to the bins where the 11x14" greenbar output from the line printers (roaring like machine guns) was placed.
hah! you'd never get the budget for that approved in 99% of schools. and most workplaces don't have them either for the same reason. neither do most homes. dual monitors is something most of them won't have later.
ah, so they can be good little corporate cubical droids in the future, as they won't be able to see management sneaking up behind them. maybe some loud obnoxious sales and marketing wanks on speakerphones in the room too
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ooo, white and rectangular with rounded corners; selectable HE, WP and shrapnel apps, and a MagSafe Pin that slides off smoother than a spent penis out of a wet vagina.
but most of the countries that would benefit most from using up the "spent fuel" for peaceful energy are already proliferating nukes like bunnies (U.S., Russia, India, China), some for them to build such reactors, it wouldn't make any difference.
that would be example of technology designed at same time Chernobyl's RBMK were
GM of food at the DNA manipulation level is completely unnecessary, old fashioned breeding works just fine. Don't need it, people don't want it. If it were labeled as it must be in many other countries (where it isn't outright banned by those who *aren't* ruled by mega-corporate minions on the take), most people wouldn't buy it. The people have a right to know, and a right to choose.
what a bullshit fairy tale. Various clusters were built of SGI, IBM workstations and DEC vaxstations. There were CADD/CAE groups who liked SGI machine (and others who used PCs and others with Sun) and some of those had SGI servers,. Until 1995, "the mainframe" for physics use outside of the clusters was an Amdahl, IBM mainframe clone on steroids (actually won over competing supercomputer bids!). First PC farm with dual pentium iii at 333MHz was in 1998. I was there.
I'm pro nuclear, but that is not fear mongering, plenty of scenarios could leave reactor unable to be serviced by anyone for more than 72 hours. the solution could be as simple as having the aux tanks in the plant's design to be raised, so no powered pumps needed. The on site water in the plant's design is sufficient to get reactor cooled for the weeks it will take. Why leave anything to chance, have unattended safe and complete shutdown and cool-off.
NO! why does this LIE persist on slashdot? quit aping it. cooling needed for weeks, see document in other posts.
wrong, see document in my post above. disaster will happen if that tank not refilled for weeks (assuming primary coolant not restored), same as any other commercial reactor we have today in that constant cooling needed. the plan after 72 hours is to use other tanks onsite, but that requires pumping and external power.
www.ne.doe.gov/pdfFiles/AP1000_Plant_Description.pdf
false, the decay heat curve is fairly flat even before the three days, so cooling MUST go on for WEEKS after shutdown (in this respect same as any gen ii reactor, in fact). this is to be provided by *pumping* water to refill that tank from other external tanks (requires gen power)
You can read about the 0 to 3 days, 3 to 7 days, 7 days and beyond here:
www.ne.doe.gov/pdfFiles/AP1000_Plant_Description.pdf
plenty of humans in history have died or been maimed trying poisonous foods. How do we know what plants and animals and preparation processes are poisonous?
This is becoming a huge issue as people realize their governments are in the pockets of mega-corporations that do not have the good of the people in mind. GM crops by Monsanto are designed to be harmed by competitors pesticides while being compatible with Monsanto's. GM crops introduce the dangers of monocultures. GM crops bring patent infringement suits against farmers, bring licensing agreements to control farmer's behaviours. The bad far outweighs any good.
I'm not aware of any plants that have naturally built man-made pesticides into their DNA sequences, nor "intelligently designed" themselves to be harmed by pesticides of Monsanto's competitors while being ok with Monsanto pesticides. Stop your pro-GM hysteria. Stop your mega-corporate worshiping hysteria. Let me guess, you own Monsanto stock.
So China will be where married Westinghouse executves get horny and after getting a taste of young asian pussy, make much trouble for old U.S. wife and family.
Eh, just need to keep the water tank topped off, if pumper firetruck can't reach it then send in fire fighting helicopter. hell, even a bucket brigade on scaffolds should do.
no problem, thorium is just not a much-needed element right now. If you look at the extraction method for thorium, compared to uranium ore->uranium->uranium 235, you find pure thorium is by comparison trivial to obtain and the means MUCH less dangerous.
most spent fuel is in storage, pool or cask. It actually *can* sustain fission under the right conditions, and breed more fuel as it does so. That's why we should *not* make long term storage for it, but instead burn "spent fuel" in truly advanced reactors, which will have the benefit of turning it into waste with mere decades rather than millenia of needed isolation time.
the passive system of the Ap1000 also depends on someone topping off the water tank within 72 hours of primary coolant failure. if that doesn't happen, guess what happens?
wrong. there are passive *designs* like that, but this AP1000 needs someone to top off the passive cooling water tank within 72 hours of coolant failure, else the reactor is fucked
I can confidently say no NASA money was wasted on hookers and blow, in space. yet.
yeah, I hate it those Russians and Europeans announcing all those super-earth and earth-sized worlds around other stars. And while we can only dream of having sent probes to all the planets like they have.
You might be able renegotiate that requirement. Invite your Microsoft MSAA liaison to a gourmet steak restaurant. Then stab him with a steak knife. Fucker.
hahaha, my 1980s computer lab was a partition in the raised floor data center, with glass wall separating us from the 4381 mainframe. It was noisy, windy, cold, painfully bright and a long walk outside to the bins where the 11x14" greenbar output from the line printers (roaring like machine guns) was placed.
hah! you'd never get the budget for that approved in 99% of schools. and most workplaces don't have them either for the same reason. neither do most homes. dual monitors is something most of them won't have later.
ah, so they can be good little corporate cubical droids in the future, as they won't be able to see management sneaking up behind them. maybe some loud obnoxious sales and marketing wanks on speakerphones in the room too
nonsense, it's 97% Debian, and with newer kernels and software versions to boot.