It was too good to be allowed to compete with Oil...
No, it isn't. You may have PU239, but you still have to refine it, machine it and carefully assemble it.
In truth, that's what it was developed
Not since 1960 or thereabouts.Nuclear power is now entirely separate.
Using flying pigs might be an option but rockets are far too unreliable.
The main one being that volcanoes are spewing stuff *out* with a fair amount of it as fine dust particles. That is exactly what you *don't* want your nasty radioactive waste to be turned into.
If you were crazy enough putting it into a subduction zone well away from any active volcanoes would be a better bet.
There are (expensive) glassification processes that can render it more or less inert for long term storage underground. Snag is the best places to put it geologically in the UK are not the same as the places where it will most likely be dumped (under Sellafield, formerly Winscale formerly Calder Hall - cunningly renamed after each mammoth cockup/MFU).
We in the UK should give thanks to Cockcroft's follies. We were damn lucky that his somewhat wacky stack filter idea prevented massive fallout when the carbon moderator caught fire back in 1957. Radioactive discharge would have been ~20x worse without them.
Well volcanies are how most of the Uranium and thorium got to where it is today. `
They could build a pyramid and stuff it in that., It would be safe.
Not even as bad as chernobyl, which was the same without the filters and
100 times bigger
Yup. And its perfectly safe there, as well.
Correct me if you have a better source, but the information I can find suggests that the power for a maglev train is supplied to electromagnets in the track.
Which means **** all power is supplied to the train.
I have a memory of seeing one in the past where the train had a pair of contacts onto overhead wires, though I can't find it. But again, no power through induction.
Andy
Correct. a maglev train is a magnetic cushion married to a linear motor, all powered through the track.
Very like a brushless motor, where the coils stay still and the (induced) magnets move
Sir 412 seats has already said he intends to put noses out of joint and abolish the ability to use planning/objection delays to delay or prevent important infrastructure developments.
Trolley buses did.
Except when they are nuclear power of course. A quick look at who is advising the labour party on energy is enough to make you weep. Greenpeace FoE Ember. Renewable UK
No sign of a single nuclear advocate being allowed within a 50 mile exclusion zone around the Labour Party
-- “it should be clear by now to everyone that activist environmentalism (or environmental activism) is becoming a general ideology about humans, about their freedom, about the relationship between the individual and the state, and about the manipulation of people under the guise of a 'noble' idea. It is not an honest pursuit of 'sustainable development,' a matter of elementary environmental protection, or a search for rational mechanisms designed to achieve a healthy environment. Yet things do occur that make you shake your head and remind yourself that you live neither in Joseph Stalin’s Communist era, nor in the Orwellian utopia of 1984.”
Vaclav Klaus
And some trams, though some used rails as ground returns
"Catalytic converter thefts on the rise in Australia as rare metal values climb"
OK, that's the Gold Coast, not Sydney.
Andy
Completely wrong The oldest fiisson products are uranium and thorium with half lives in billions of years
Iodine 199 et al are so un radioactive you could bathe in them and be just fine
No you habve. No one except you is in the slightest bit concerned about Inert materials like that. You are more at danger from lead poisoning, which lasts FOREVER
Reay you must be a relative of Commander KInsey
*plonk*
"Canada is all right really, though not for the whole weekend."
What does that mean?
We were invited to a 4th Of July bbq across the street, and the whole yard (which is tiny, in San Franciso) was festooned in Canada flags. Downtight traitorous, in my opinion. Our neighborhood is being infested with Winnipegoos who all seem to work for Tesla.
A giant maple leaf flag was taped to the hillside and was falling down, so I had to climb up and anchor it. All the guys there were programmers, and sometimes you need an engineer.
The burgers were wagu-beef high end, from this place:
It means that to a humorous Edwardian writer of column inches, he had visited Canada and found it insufferably dull..
Greenpeace spoiled its reputation with me when I questioned one of their acolytes about -what I believed was- an inaccuracy in one of their arguments. His reply was that they knew full well that their argument was inaccurate, but that lying was justified if it advanced their cause.
Sorry, but no.
Jeroen Belleman
Canadians, and Canadian food, do seem kinda plain. But then, Canada doesn't start many wars.
Places full of sane people don't seem to do much radical electronics either.
No. Unit names are treated like ordinary nouns and are only capitalized where orthographically necessary. The symbols for units named after people are always capitalized.
Are you actually factoring in the extra cost of a EV and
*catastrophic* depreciation into your mileage costs?There we go: FIFY.
Uranium is what you put into reactor - it's not a fission product. There are neutron flying around inside a reactor, and a neutron hitting a uranium nucleus doesn't necessarily cause it to fission but can get capture, which is how some of the U-238 in a reactor gets turned into Pu-239. That isn't a fission product either.
I've not heard that U-235 fission reactors produce thorium. People put Thorium-232 into U-235 nuclear reactors to "breed" thorium-233 which is fissile.
Iodine-129 with it's 15.7 million year half-life, doesn't decay to Xenon-129 all that often, and it only emits a 194KeV electron (beta decay) in the process.
But you don't want to bathe in it. Iodine concentrate in the thyroid, and any 194keV electron can mess up your DNA. Shorter-lived radioactive isotopes of iodine are used to shrink over-active thyroid glands. There's a cancer risk, but not a large one, and hyper-thyroidism is disorder that it pays to treat.
Wrong again.
The Scottish Wanker? Your grasp of reality really is remarkably frail.
Electric vehicles haven't been around for long enough to let you work out reliable depreciation costs, and the "extra cost" of an electric vehicle is mainly due to the fact that they are so far being manufactured in smaller volumes that internal-combustion-engined vehicles.
Like most of Cursitor Doom's "corrections", he's presenting one of his ludicrous misapprehensions as if it were reliable information.
It's 2023 report, and it does mention such thefts in Sydney as well.
Presumably scrap metal dealers have now been visited by the police and reminded that they have to report being offered that kind of "scrap metal". If you can't sell the catalytic converter, there's not a lot of point in stealing it.
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