how ignorant are you? Even "depleted" uranium can be burned in the right type of reactor. Anyway, so called "spent fuel" can be burned in reactors such as fluoride salt reactors. The 1/7 figure is just fact, as is burning to short lived isotopes.
By the way, I'm an engineer who has worked in nuclear power plant and high energy physics labs, what are your credentials exactly?
no, it's "spent" only for archaic 1950s Gen I and Gen II reactor designs we still use. Only has about 1/7th the total energy we could use taken out of it, and has thousands of years decay time. Smarter design of reactors can get the rest of the energy and leave short-lived isotopes to boot. Smarter countries like China, South Korea, Russia, India have active programs to pursue the tech.
Don't need that many nuclear ships; the world does have 140 of them in operation though. would we be better off using fluoride salt reactors to burn spent fuel instead of the sulphor and co2 belching cargo container ships? I think so
What nonsense, we have centuries of supply of coal (sadly) and more importantly we have centuries of fission fuel (spent fuel plus thorium reserves) There is no such 70 year limit to even uranium reactors because of the gold mine of spent fuel.
how so, very terse language and has constructs cobol can't have. About the opposite of COBOL. I'd argue Java is the 21st century cobol, takes four or more times the number of lines of Java to get something done as Ruby.
well if the ship that uses it is always kept far from earth, not an issue. just hazard for crew and maint workers that they could disappear in an instant. would be very painless though.
but American corruption of that kind is legal; Russia depends on illegal kind with their three branches of government (the three flavors of mafia, Putin being in the KGB crony one)
No, most stars don't have earth-like worlds around them. We think we might have found four within 1500 light years that might be in habitable zone, but whether they have water or atmosphere is unknown. We may find there are zero habitable planets within 1500 light years of earth
That's nice, so we're going to send things as pure information via quantum entanglement. 1. make the info to matter thing for the far end 2. entangle two particles 3. move one of the particles and the doohickie from step 1 to the destination 4.............oh crap I guess we're there already
the "architectures" are already there, just bore into appropriately shaped asteroid. spin it for near 1G field for people inside. propulsion system left as exercise for student but Orion type within technical possibility now.
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Could well be true, but then our theory of gravity is wrong because stars in galaxy rotate at wrong speed at given distance from center.
"despots at home and enemies from abroad", the two reasons to have militia (armed citizens)
That's right kiddies, the U.S. bill of rights gives the citizens the implicit right to violent revolution in a certain case
how ignorant are you? Even "depleted" uranium can be burned in the right type of reactor. Anyway, so called "spent fuel" can be burned in reactors such as fluoride salt reactors. The 1/7 figure is just fact, as is burning to short lived isotopes.
By the way, I'm an engineer who has worked in nuclear power plant and high energy physics labs, what are your credentials exactly?
So you have ignorant friends, my Ukrainian friends get angry because it is WRONG to say "the Ukraine".
The Germans fell victim to the stupid too, you only point out the problem
no, it's "spent" only for archaic 1950s Gen I and Gen II reactor designs we still use. Only has about 1/7th the total energy we could use taken out of it, and has thousands of years decay time. Smarter design of reactors can get the rest of the energy and leave short-lived isotopes to boot. Smarter countries like China, South Korea, Russia, India have active programs to pursue the tech.
Don't need that many nuclear ships; the world does have 140 of them in operation though. would we be better off using fluoride salt reactors to burn spent fuel instead of the sulphor and co2 belching cargo container ships? I think so
What nonsense, we have centuries of supply of coal (sadly) and more importantly we have centuries of fission fuel (spent fuel plus thorium reserves) There is no such 70 year limit to even uranium reactors because of the gold mine of spent fuel.
false, spent fuel can be used in smarter reactor designs; we have centuries of nuclear fuel available.
Also South Korea, Russia, China and India have breeder programs. Do you have a point?
false, an ignorant 19th century text mistakenly put "the Ukraine" and that wrong name stuck in many English speaking countries.
The country is Ukraine, no The about it, ever.
so why would you delay by involving a company if you had the competency to make a solution the same day that was just as comfortable?
you use some kind of emotional smokescreen to hide the stupidity of your argument
I'm an engineer; accurate forces and torques not an issue nor is testing.
no the java is for actual business code, we get too far into the dev end of devops for QA purposes. devops done wrongly.
how so, very terse language and has constructs cobol can't have. About the opposite of COBOL. I'd argue Java is the 21st century cobol, takes four or more times the number of lines of Java to get something done as Ruby.
well if the ship that uses it is always kept far from earth, not an issue. just hazard for crew and maint workers that they could disappear in an instant. would be very painless though.
half my job is to be sys admin, lots of bash (for linux) and ksh (for bsd) scripting for batch jobs
still having to write shit in perl 5 (boo) and ruby (yay) for larger things, like conversion and importing jobs
on the dev side of my devops job, yes java (ew)
but American corruption of that kind is legal; Russia depends on illegal kind with their three branches of government (the three flavors of mafia, Putin being in the KGB crony one)
except a lot of Russian infrastructure needed for moon mission has gone to shit. They aren't going in the next 30 years
20 loads to blow before Saturday night? I would take that as a challenge
self-obsessed people prattling on about nothing important, I'm impressed someone could monetize narcissism of the masses
@slashdot I just took a big greasy dump
plus that little nit about having to send your receiver somewhere to get there. not a great way to go somewhere you've never been....
No, most stars don't have earth-like worlds around them. We think we might have found four within 1500 light years that might be in habitable zone, but whether they have water or atmosphere is unknown. We may find there are zero habitable planets within 1500 light years of earth
That's nice, so we're going to send things as pure information via quantum entanglement. ............oh crap I guess we're there already
1. make the info to matter thing for the far end
2. entangle two particles
3. move one of the particles and the doohickie from step 1 to the destination
4.
Actually Rama's drive was a bit magical, a sort of reactionless electromagnetic propulsion deus ex machina thingy
the "architectures" are already there, just bore into appropriately shaped asteroid. spin it for near 1G field for people inside. propulsion system left as exercise for student but Orion type within technical possibility now.