I think you failed statistics. If something statistically happens once every 20 years, it does not mean that it happens after 20 years. It can happen on the first day already.
Last few years? My Windows Mobile phone from 2003 has got 64 megabytes of RAM (actually 128, but half of it is used by the operating system and as a RAM drive)
You've got a couple of facts wrong there. First, they have not pulled all control rods out, only most of them (which was not forbidden). They also haven't driven the reactor to higher than designed power levels - the reactor was working at 200 MW thermal, which is like 6% of its nominal power. The diesel generator for emergency cooling was also already up and running at the moment of SCRAM.
Anyway, if the reactor struggles so much to keep power even when most of the control rods are up, then it looks like a safe situation because logically even if a few control rods go down, the chain reaction should stop very fast.
Unfortunately, due to the stupid control rod design RBMK behaved differently. That is why right after the crew pulled out most of the control rods to keep the reactor working in spite of xenon poisoning there was no chance to SCRAM in a safe way.
A reactor that explodes on SCRAM should never have been built in first place.
Since the reactor exploded due to a SCRAM, it might have happened even then. Hell, it almost happened in 1975 at the Leningrad nuclear power plant. It was just a matter of time.
Which was an easy thing to do, unfortunately - both countries are tiny. But while larger than Luxemburg, Estonia is much less important. I should know - I was born there.
Sure many juries might agree it's self defence, but if, no, strike that, when the police starts to return the fire, this question will become academic.
You *do* know that Chernobyl was a nuclear weapons production reactor, right? It was specifically designed to generate the maximal amount of weapons-grade plutonium possible.
Not really. The RBMK design is a modified military reactor design because it was easier to modify a military reactor than to design a true civil reactor from scratch. Also it could use natural uranium and could be built for very large sizes in a cheap way. Weapon grade plutonium production was more like a bonus. And yes, VVER was also based on military reactors (submarine propulsion).
I have a reason for my convictions. We routinely have people predict various doomsday scenarios.
Ah, this shit again. I hear it all too often from people here in Germany who insist that all doomsday sayers are stupid because about 30 years ago it was predicted that due to acid rains Germany would not have any forests by now.
For their own comfort, they forget that since the 1980ies these doomsday sayers have done a lot to combat industry, power production and vehicular exhaust dirt, which lead to a much better air quality altogether - the last smog alert in Germany was 20 years ago.
Same thing happened with the y2k problem and ozone hole - the shortsighted are convinced that nothing really bad has happened because the problems weren't there, the less myopic understand that the positive outcome was due to a lot of effort.
So did those in my aquarium (I've bought it used). I've just replaced the two old ballasts with a twin electronic one. No flickering anymore and much faster startup with that.
Are you out of your mind? Do you want to buy a new device because you suddenly need 32 gigabytes of storage instead of 16 because your media library grows? Or maybe throw the device away when flash memory starts having problems after a few years?
Well, I don't. I'd rather replace a micro sd card with a larger one.
I liked Windows Mobile. Used it for years. Would still use it if it weren't dead and if there were decent hardware for it available (I like resistive touchscreens and styluses dammit)
A good friend of mine was in Pripyat last summer, with a dosimeter (MKS-05 terra IIRC) and he showed me the photos. The radiation is not uniform and can go from pretty low to very dangerous after a few steps off the roads. You can do the tour, and there are certainly many tourists there, but if you plan to have children, better wait with visiting Chernobyl.
Baden-Württemberg or Austria are also bad. I have to phone a lot with customers there, sure enough I have to guess what they want to tell me, and they have to cope with my (not very heavy) Russian accent.
It is not that people in Hessen are difficult to understand, though. It just sounds ugly for someone who used to live in NRW for 15 years.
Holy shit. I've got a more or less similar system (only Core 2 Duo and a lower mid range graphics card (Radeon 5770), though, but lots of hardware my PC like a dedicated sound card for recording, ISDN card, streamer and so on. Also 24" LCD, 4 gb RAM, 1 SSD, 1 HDD, a 5.1 cinema system.
My usage is more like playing a game: 230W (Fallout NV) normal desktop use: 160W sleep mode: 17W power off: 8W
Hessen probably. This is still the biggest problem for me in Hessen, since I used to live in NRW for the better half of my life, and there this way to speak "ch" is somewhat comparable to the US American phenomen called "Ebonics".
I am not in any way an expert in languages, I think the reason why English has got so many irregular verbs might be a different one. For me it looks like the irregularities in English are not due to the simplicity of verbal patterns but rather due to numerous legacies (of middle German and Norman languages or so).
Something similar is also the case with Russian. The language itself has got lots of clear rules about verbal patterns, but also many exceptions that are legacies of old Russian, Church Slavonic and spelling reforms.
So basically since there is no oil and natural gas in Germany, it has to be imported. No shit, Sherlock, this was known 70 years ago already. What does it have to do with nuclear power plants? There are, as far as I know, no base load power plants in Germany that burn either oil or natural gas. There are peak load power plants that burn natural gas, but a nuclear phaseout would make no difference to those.
So, again, why do you pull strange numbers out of your arse?
Avatar in 3d was awesome. If you personally cannot enjoy this - tough luck for you. If you were totally colour blind, you'd probably bitch and moan about people preferring colour movies to black-and-white ones.
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I think you failed statistics.
If something statistically happens once every 20 years, it does not mean that it happens after 20 years. It can happen on the first day already.
You sure? I don't know about cars, but trucks send the odometer value over the FMS interface, which is more or less just a protocol over the CAN bus.
Last few years? My Windows Mobile phone from 2003 has got 64 megabytes of RAM (actually 128, but half of it is used by the operating system and as a RAM drive)
You've got a couple of facts wrong there.
First, they have not pulled all control rods out, only most of them (which was not forbidden). They also haven't driven the reactor to higher than designed power levels - the reactor was working at 200 MW thermal, which is like 6% of its nominal power. The diesel generator for emergency cooling was also already up and running at the moment of SCRAM.
Anyway, if the reactor struggles so much to keep power even when most of the control rods are up, then it looks like a safe situation because logically even if a few control rods go down, the chain reaction should stop very fast.
Unfortunately, due to the stupid control rod design RBMK behaved differently. That is why right after the crew pulled out most of the control rods to keep the reactor working in spite of xenon poisoning there was no chance to SCRAM in a safe way.
A reactor that explodes on SCRAM should never have been built in first place.
Since the reactor exploded due to a SCRAM, it might have happened even then. Hell, it almost happened in 1975 at the Leningrad nuclear power plant. It was just a matter of time.
Which was an easy thing to do, unfortunately - both countries are tiny. But while larger than Luxemburg, Estonia is much less important. I should know - I was born there.
Sure many juries might agree it's self defence, but if, no, strike that, when the police starts to return the fire, this question will become academic.
"Do not scare ostriches! Concrete floor."
Not really. The RBMK design is a modified military reactor design because it was easier to modify a military reactor than to design a true civil reactor from scratch. Also it could use natural uranium and could be built for very large sizes in a cheap way. Weapon grade plutonium production was more like a bonus. And yes, VVER was also based on military reactors (submarine propulsion).
Ah, this shit again. I hear it all too often from people here in Germany who insist that all doomsday sayers are stupid because about 30 years ago it was predicted that due to acid rains Germany would not have any forests by now.
For their own comfort, they forget that since the 1980ies these doomsday sayers have done a lot to combat industry, power production and vehicular exhaust dirt, which lead to a much better air quality altogether - the last smog alert in Germany was 20 years ago.
Same thing happened with the y2k problem and ozone hole - the shortsighted are convinced that nothing really bad has happened because the problems weren't there, the less myopic understand that the positive outcome was due to a lot of effort.
So did those in my aquarium (I've bought it used). I've just replaced the two old ballasts with a twin electronic one. No flickering anymore and much faster startup with that.
Are you out of your mind?
Do you want to buy a new device because you suddenly need 32 gigabytes of storage instead of 16 because your media library grows? Or maybe throw the device away when flash memory starts having problems after a few years?
Well, I don't. I'd rather replace a micro sd card with a larger one.
I liked Windows Mobile. Used it for years. Would still use it if it weren't dead and if there were decent hardware for it available (I like resistive touchscreens and styluses dammit)
Well, this is a tablet I had at work for the past 5 years. So much for that.
A good friend of mine was in Pripyat last summer, with a dosimeter (MKS-05 terra IIRC) and he showed me the photos. The radiation is not uniform and can go from pretty low to very dangerous after a few steps off the roads. You can do the tour, and there are certainly many tourists there, but if you plan to have children, better wait with visiting Chernobyl.
Nuclear submarine fuel is much more enriched, though.
Baden-Württemberg or Austria are also bad. I have to phone a lot with customers there, sure enough I have to guess what they want to tell me, and they have to cope with my (not very heavy) Russian accent.
It is not that people in Hessen are difficult to understand, though. It just sounds ugly for someone who used to live in NRW for 15 years.
Holy shit. I've got a more or less similar system (only Core 2 Duo and a lower mid range graphics card (Radeon 5770), though, but lots of hardware my PC like a dedicated sound card for recording, ISDN card, streamer and so on. Also 24" LCD, 4 gb RAM, 1 SSD, 1 HDD, a 5.1 cinema system.
My usage is more like
playing a game: 230W (Fallout NV)
normal desktop use: 160W
sleep mode: 17W
power off: 8W
Hessen probably.
This is still the biggest problem for me in Hessen, since I used to live in NRW for the better half of my life, and there this way to speak "ch" is somewhat comparable to the US American phenomen called "Ebonics".
I am not in any way an expert in languages, I think the reason why English has got so many irregular verbs might be a different one. For me it looks like the irregularities in English are not due to the simplicity of verbal patterns but rather due to numerous legacies (of middle German and Norman languages or so).
Something similar is also the case with Russian. The language itself has got lots of clear rules about verbal patterns, but also many exceptions that are legacies of old Russian, Church Slavonic and spelling reforms.
Only that there was no need for any internal passports for inter-Soviet flights.
Shame on me, this is the wrong one. Solar One project would be the correct one, but it is AFAIR demolished now.
No, that one is already built
So basically since there is no oil and natural gas in Germany, it has to be imported. No shit, Sherlock, this was known 70 years ago already. What does it have to do with nuclear power plants? There are, as far as I know, no base load power plants in Germany that burn either oil or natural gas. There are peak load power plants that burn natural gas, but a nuclear phaseout would make no difference to those.
So, again, why do you pull strange numbers out of your arse?
Avatar in 3d was awesome. If you personally cannot enjoy this - tough luck for you. If you were totally colour blind, you'd probably bitch and moan about people preferring colour movies to black-and-white ones.