OT: Rolls Royce on track to deliver SMR

Well, the betas are probably more dangerous as they will mostly be absorbed whereas the gammas will mostly pass straight through the body without interacting. John

Bananas are radioactive, as are Brazil nuts.

ISTR a pocketful of Brazils will trip a nuclear power stations door sensors.

And since Radium is an alpha emitter it's particularly dangerous to consume.

I'm sorry, I can't resist.

Just what planet are you on?

(that's much closer to the km value)

Andy

Go and work out how many dams we'd have to build in order to supply the UK with electricity.

Remember they'd have to be built high up in the major river valleys. And they tend to have major cities downstream.

Andy

As T i m is such a simple soul I was going to do the body-count thing in terms of the Banana Equivalent Dose, but it might well have driven him, well, bananas...

Dangerous things, these 'healthy' diets...

Why would I / we do that?

Of course?

Of course?

Cheers, T i m

Quite.

But since when has Spuke ever bothered with the facts over trying to get one in against me (I feel sorry for him having me as the centre of his life). ;-(

It must be very confusing living in a world of grey when you can only think in black and white.

I'm not talking about (naturally occurring) radiation, I'm talking about using it to generate power and the risks that can expose.

I haven't said that I don't want nuclear power or that the alternatives can't have / cause their own issues, but common sense would suggest we consider all other energy sources and focus on the greenest / safest of them.

There is little point relying on nuclear energy when the world population is being forced to live in the areas it hasn't polluted for a good few years.

When a windmill falls in the farm, do people 2000 miles away have to suffer the consequences?

Cheers, T i m

Brazil nuts are also good for the macula and we have been assured here that radiation is good for us so ... ?

As might my old watch and my plutonium keyring. Answer, don't take them round the Nuclear Power Station tour (I didn't when we went

Cheers, T i m

p.s.

Q. Name four jobs where you do most your work via a remote control because of the high levels of risk.

;-)

Given Mars is on topic ... I was triggering the likes of the Squeaker goblin (who is another one who fantasises about me all the time) who previously suggested I came from planet Vegan because I spelled vegan with a capital V?

He's an anally retentive, left brainer, Goblin / troll, carnist ... it all fits etc. ;-)

But I can see why people are petrified of Vegans because they think we will treat you humans like you treat some of the other animals you share this rock with. Keeping, feeding and dealing with the waste products as many live stock as there are people ... madness.

Cheers, T i m

I read some of the documentation for a site a few years ago. The permissible discharge to water was the equivalent of 9 bananas a year!

I have a nice glowing keyring, thanks to nuclear power :)

Just don't keep it in your pocket when paddling on the beach, in case a big wave comes in ... ;-)

Cheers, T i m

It's helpful to put risk into context:

Agreed, but some like to say they don't have an opinion, like Brexit and so don't vote yet call those in favour of Brexit childish names. This is deja vu.

In reality your world is black and white and give the illusion you're just a grey man.

Sometimes, if a loved one died in the incident came from a family 2,000 miles away. That's more likely with wind than nuclear.

Yet 'accidents' have happened?

The same processes apply to aeroplanes and space rockets yet they still hit the ground and other planets pretty hard?

I'm sure it has, in some countries. Maybe I'll be happier when all the 'old' systems have been turned of and fully decommissioned.

Cheers, T i m

Whoever said they did (so once again your just a left brained babbling Goblin, making stuff up or trying to twist things I have said (and even not said))!

I don't need to because they already have (and IDGAF about the reason, just the consequences).

FACT. I nor no one here I've seen has ever said one has (for_no_reason) ... so any comment on that is just a left brainer missing the point and flapping their gums.

Whatever?

Yes ... and? Did you actually have a point or is it the meds wearing off?

Loads of things aren't done or are restricted / limited because of the

Like, a good few thousand fully Police checked and licensed firearms holders *had* to give up their legally held equipment because it was considered that it was 'a risk' to have such thing in the charge of even checked and approved people, in spite of the fact that the number of incidents carried out using legally held firearms were very very small (and specifically by their legal owners).

It's the same as selling knives / fireworks / cross bows to children. Statistically few use them for bad things but the risks are just too great (and of course they can get them *illegally*).

So, something that can go wrong will generally go wrong (at some point or another) and when that happens, the level of concern as seen by 'most people' is generally a function of the range / depth of the impact / duration of the consequences.

Back to the what if ...

OOI, do you consider the RR SMR's to be 100% perfect? No room for (safety specifically) improvement whatsoever?

Cheers, T i m

Of course.

AS would a nuclear power station?

The 'issue' is 'how much damage *could* it do'.

Letting a child play with a live grenade *could* be safe, especially if you have instructed and trained them on the risks of doing so and with some extra safety features in place ... till one day that butterfly ...

Cheers, T i m

More people have been killed in motorcycle accidents than by nuclear power generation, but that didn't stop your biking years, did it?

More people are killed on our roads in any one year than have died from whatever illegal drugs you care to include in the "war on drugs" since the 1960s.

Best not to try and introduce facts to arguments sometimes. You always come off worse ....