The main by-product of enrichment is depleted uranium (DU), principally the U-238 isotope, with a U-235 content of ~0.3%. It is stored, either as UF6 or as U3O8
Yeah, quit bitching about Uranium fucking hippies, it's half-life is only 4.468 billion years and we can probably store this stuff without most of it leaking so STFU about it already.
disallowed in the United States for purely political reasons.
From that which you linked:
In March 1999, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reversed its policy and signed a contract with a consortium of Duke Energy, COGEMA, and Stone & Webster (DCS) to design and operate a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility. Site preparation at the Savannah River Site (South Carolina) began in October 2005.[11] In 2011 the New York Times reported "...11 years after the government awarded a construction contract, the cost of the project has soared to nearly $5 billion. The vast concrete and steel structure is a half-finished hulk, and the government has yet to find a single customer, despite offers of lucrative subsidies." TVA (currently the most likely customer) said in April 2011 that it would delay a decision until it could see how MOX fuel performed in the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi.[12]
Sounds like no-one's interested because it's prohibitively expensive even with big subsidies from the Gov't.
"In 1973, the Nixon Administration ordered the discontinuance by the CIA of the use of hijacking as a covert action weapon against the Castro regime. Cuban intelligence followed suit. "
The real question is, will the autonomous vehicle industry be able to weather the endless deluge of 'ANOTHER COMPUTER-CONTROLLED CAR CRASHES' that will happen once these vehicles hit the showrooms. The news hate to report anything important and they will be all over this like flies all over shit.
After all of this NSA business, why would you ask which storage provider keeps you safe when clearly none of them do.
If you want your data encrypted, why would you not do it yourself, then you don't need to pay for an encrypted storage provider because you can upload your encrypted data to any storage provider. Paying extra for something you're not guaranteed to get is not very intelligent.
This article brought to you by an anonymous reader / encrypted storage provider.
I bet Eve knows the answer, she's always nosing in.
But anyway, the question is clearly referring to all apples, so:
There were about 69 million tonnes of apples produced in 2010, at 6,666 apples per tonne that's 460 Billion apples, but they only last for a few weeks, so 460 / 26 = 17.7 Billlion
Observation: Unexplained galactic rotation Hypothesis: WIMPs of a specific type exist Test: Setup a detector for these WIMPs Analysis/Results: No WIMPs detected, but if they existed the test should have caught them
Next step: Adjust Hypothesis and continue.
Hypothesis, what Hypothesis, the scientists again have nothing more than, oh crap our measurements don't meet with our current theory of physics, three-quarters of the universe appears to be missing.
Physicists seem to be unwilling to accept the possibility that the theories of relativity and quantum theory don't work at the scale of galaxies, instead they are insisting that the theories are working and that what is missing is 'dark matter'.
And then we hear of all these theories about the origins of the universe which are built upon such shaky theories - theories which don't even meet, and we are supposed to seriously entertain these flaky ideas.
It looks to me that the only thing keeping dark matter going is faith.
How can the theory of relativity and quantum theory ever be used in the same place when quantum theory is small scale and would general fall within the margin of error of any quantum theory calculations. The two will never meet, Cosmological physics has gone as far as it can go with these theories.
The failure of the Large Hadron Collider to find evidence for supersymmetry has led some physicists to suggest that the theory should be abandoned.[2] Experiments with the Large Hadron Collider also yielded an extremely rare particle decay event which casts doubt on supersymmetry.
So, this dark matter, what is it? Because it seems to me that it hasn't been defined properly, it's just a massive kludge that scientists did when their observations didn't make scientific sense according to our current best theories of physics.
Dark matter is a theory without basis, it says oops, our measurements don't make sense. What is it, axions? - a type of particle that hasn't even been proved to exist. Dark matter is a theory shakily based on other unproven theories, proposed because the initial theories aren't working.
Nice to hear some skepticism here on Slashdot. It certainly seems like scientists desperately want dark matter and dark energy to exist because their numbers are never adding up. It looks like bad science when they keep fiddling with the numbers to patch up their deficient theories.
Its had too many features removed and freezes for up to 20 seconds if you stop a page load, pages screw their formatting up, it has no solution for popup boxes that center themselves offscreen. gmail.com, mail.com both pretty unusable. (galaxy note 2). no undo close tab. most options removed.
It also serves to distract from their questionable actions.
No rich person makes their money, the workers of the companies they own make the money. Rich is not right, greed is not good. Philanthropy does not absolve the rich of their greed.
Although, since the number of pay-outs would most likely be massively reduced, insurance premiums would also drop hugely. So I would expect insurance companies to be against driver-less cars, due to the reduced profit.
This idea of cars driving bumper to bumper is pure fantasy, extremely dangerous, would cause a pile-up, regardless of how good inter-car communications is etc.
If the gov'ts and councils that actually build and maintain the roads charged the costs to the vehicles that actually do the damage there would be much less of a problem. HGVs should have weight taxes, they rip up the roads. I think the percentage of gov't revenue that comes from fines is miniscule after the cost of policing those fines is taken in to account.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_waste#Front_end
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-238
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Safety_and_environmental_issues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Health_considerations
Yeah, quit bitching about Uranium fucking hippies, it's half-life is only 4.468 billion years and we can probably store this stuff without most of it leaking so STFU about it already.
From that which you linked:
Sounds like no-one's interested because it's prohibitively expensive even with big subsidies from the Gov't.
Other unsafe drivers. Duh. Why do you think some people have higher insurance premiums than other people?
FML you actually got modded up for that piece of stupidity.
"In 1973, the Nixon Administration ordered the discontinuance by the CIA of the use of hijacking as a covert action weapon against the Castro regime. Cuban intelligence followed suit. "
You oh so conveniently missed that bit out.
Fuck Yes - Cyclist
US needs a justice system, it only appears to have an injustice system.
I'd be able to get a manager instantly sacked if they put that in writing.
Ask them to put it in writing, is texting while driving legal in your jurisdiction?
The real question is, will the autonomous vehicle industry be able to weather the endless deluge of 'ANOTHER COMPUTER-CONTROLLED CAR CRASHES' that will happen once these vehicles hit the showrooms. The news hate to report anything important and they will be all over this like flies all over shit.
Perhaps I should RTFS before posting. I still wouldn't trust these services anyway, how do you know the keys are made securely and stay secure?
After all of this NSA business, why would you ask which storage provider keeps you safe when clearly none of them do.
If you want your data encrypted, why would you not do it yourself, then you don't need to pay for an encrypted storage provider because you can upload your encrypted data to any storage provider. Paying extra for something you're not guaranteed to get is not very intelligent.
This article brought to you by an anonymous reader / encrypted storage provider.
I bet Eve knows the answer, she's always nosing in.
But anyway, the question is clearly referring to all apples, so:
There were about 69 million tonnes of apples produced in 2010, at 6,666 apples per tonne that's 460 Billion apples, but they only last for a few weeks, so 460 / 26 = 17.7 Billlion
Answer: There are roughly 17.7 billion apples.
Hypothesis, what Hypothesis, the scientists again have nothing more than, oh crap our measurements don't meet with our current theory of physics, three-quarters of the universe appears to be missing.
Physicists seem to be unwilling to accept the possibility that the theories of relativity and quantum theory don't work at the scale of galaxies, instead they are insisting that the theories are working and that what is missing is 'dark matter'.
And then we hear of all these theories about the origins of the universe which are built upon such shaky theories - theories which don't even meet, and we are supposed to seriously entertain these flaky ideas.
It looks to me that the only thing keeping dark matter going is faith.
How can the theory of relativity and quantum theory ever be used in the same place when quantum theory is small scale and would general fall within the margin of error of any quantum theory calculations. The two will never meet, Cosmological physics has gone as far as it can go with these theories.
[looks up super-symmetry]
From the wikipedia page summary
So, this dark matter, what is it? Because it seems to me that it hasn't been defined properly, it's just a massive kludge that scientists did when their observations didn't make scientific sense according to our current best theories of physics.
Dark matter is a theory without basis, it says oops, our measurements don't make sense. What is it, axions? - a type of particle that hasn't even been proved to exist. Dark matter is a theory shakily based on other unproven theories, proposed because the initial theories aren't working.
Nice to hear some skepticism here on Slashdot. It certainly seems like scientists desperately want dark matter and dark energy to exist because their numbers are never adding up. It looks like bad science when they keep fiddling with the numbers to patch up their deficient theories.
Its had too many features removed and freezes for up to 20 seconds if you stop a page load, pages screw their formatting up, it has no solution for popup boxes that center themselves offscreen. gmail.com, mail.com both pretty unusable. (galaxy note 2). no undo close tab. most options removed.
Really, what is the point of your post, would you prefer that philanthropists are never criticised?
It seems to me that philanthropy is often a way for the mega-rich to try to right their wrongs. The likes of Bill Gates et al can't even do that right, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gates_foundation#Criticism
It also serves to distract from their questionable actions.
No rich person makes their money, the workers of the companies they own make the money. Rich is not right, greed is not good. Philanthropy does not absolve the rich of their greed.
Although, since the number of pay-outs would most likely be massively reduced, insurance premiums would also drop hugely. So I would expect insurance companies to be against driver-less cars, due to the reduced profit.
Do insurance companies currently sue car manufacturers when faults occur?
I really don't see any need for change from the status quo, the insurance company pays, not the driver, not the manufacturer.
That would cause a pile-up.
Note the massively different braking distances, even in the same car model - braking differences of up to 40 meters
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/the-power-to-stop
This idea of cars driving bumper to bumper is pure fantasy, extremely dangerous, would cause a pile-up, regardless of how good inter-car communications is etc.
Curse Slashdot's non-editing, I of course meant from stopping from 100mph, not 40mph.
No, they can't.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/the-power-to-stop
http://www.which.co.uk/news/2012/05/best-and-worst-supermini-braking-distances-285596/
Even with the same car, stopping from 40mph, some stops took 40 meters longer than others. 40 meters is not bumper to bumper.
Pile-ups happen because people don't understand stopping distances.
If the gov'ts and councils that actually build and maintain the roads charged the costs to the vehicles that actually do the damage there would be much less of a problem. HGVs should have weight taxes, they rip up the roads. I think the percentage of gov't revenue that comes from fines is miniscule after the cost of policing those fines is taken in to account.