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23697
So, Russia apparently ran some nuclear war games simulating the invasion of Poland, right around the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland....
whatdoesthatmakeus
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Nov 2, 2009
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23698
Did you miss the first three words of that quote: "Cheapest Hardware Possible"? You're welcome to embrace the zipcar phenomenon if you like. I just hope you'll...
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Nov 2, 2009
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23699
Interesting, thanks. I liked the line, "The Gingko tree is different from many herbal remedies because it is a unique species with no living relatives..." All...
Karl Johanson
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Nov 2, 2009
11:38 pm
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Well, Mister Billionaire has voted solidly against nuclear power: http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUSTRE5A22A720091103 Make no mistake: This is a...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 3, 2009
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23701
Two questions: 1) By how much does coal freight 'out-freight' the trucking industry? 2) Isn't this also a pretty big bet against the Cap & Trade bill ever...
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Nov 3, 2009
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.2e5f179dce3f1030889bc3fe877552c0.731&show_article=1&catnum=0 (sigh)...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 3, 2009
8:33 pm
23703
D2O is really good, carbon is OK. For many years I've been somewhat curious whether U interspersed with MgF2 could, at room temperature, just barely go. (Per...
csceadraham
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Nov 3, 2009
10:40 pm
23704
Trucks carry much more freight than trains. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), truck transport is about 6 times the tonnage of rail. ...
schedule80
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Nov 3, 2009
11:00 pm
23705
How about lighter fluorine salts? BeF2 might be very good. LiF, too. FliBe has been heavily studied for fusion, and was used in the Molten Salt Reactor...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 4, 2009
5:38 pm
23706
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Focus_on_EPRs_systems_0311091.html Focus on EPR's systems 03 November 2009 A detail from Areva's UK documentation   Areva...
Paul W
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Nov 4, 2009
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23707
Well, I hope that all the blog pundits at NEI Nuclear Notes who have ingratiated themselves with Obamolech the Destroyer and the liberal cretins of the...
Paul W
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Nov 5, 2009
2:37 am
23708
Yes Paul... "the liberals" own all the news agencies except one. (Nuclear's a pretty new energy source, so 'Conservatives' don't get to be for nuclear energy,...
Karl Johanson
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Nov 5, 2009
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23709
In a hushed-up mission in September 2007, Israeli jets blew up a mysterious complex in the Syrian desert ...
Jim Hoerner
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Nov 5, 2009
11:20 am
23710
... You must have kudzu, and be a renter rather than an owner. As I recall, those bombs were, by nuclear bomb standards, duds. In the time it took for H nuclei...
csceadraham
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Nov 5, 2009
1:59 pm
23711
Hello, Graham! ... Uh.... Ok! :D ... Yeah, I went and looked this up and it seems that the shake interval increased due to slower neutron speeds, thus fewer...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 5, 2009
3:54 pm
23712
A typical 1GW coal plant releases the following pollutants INTO THE AIR every DAY: - 10,136.986 metric TONS of CO2 (per day, per plant) - 27.397 metric TONS of...
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Nov 5, 2009
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23713
... High melting point for a fluoride. High transparency that extends far into the UV (http://www.crystran.co.uk/magnesium-fluoride-mgf2.htm ). High number...
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Nov 5, 2009
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23714
... You might be interested in the discussion at http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=33011&p=3&topicID=16231100 ... http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/...
csceadraham
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Nov 5, 2009
11:01 pm
23715
Here's a bit of moderator info for fluoride salts, sadly, no MgF2 in the bunch: http://www.ornl.gov/~webworks/cppr/y2006/rpt/124584.pdf As a thought: Plastic!...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 5, 2009
11:25 pm
23716
... They probably would work. If perdeuterated, they certainly would. I am now persuaded that natural uranium and magnesium fluoride will not go, and that it's...
csceadraham
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Nov 6, 2009
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23717
Hi Graham, At the risk of exposing my ignorance of all things nuclear, I was reading that rocketry forum and noticed that a poster dismissed the PWR due to...
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Nov 6, 2009
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23718
... Oh, yeah. I went and looked a bit, and found that polyethylene, mainly CH2, has a moderating ration of around 120, or twice as good as light water! Well...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 6, 2009
6:37 pm
23719
Yes, gasoline is highly chemically reactive, but so is liquid sodium, and that is usually the coolant of choice for fast reactors. I'm as pro-nuclear as they...
schedule80
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Nov 6, 2009
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23720
... Eureka! :) I was gnawing on this notion, and finally stumbled across this paper: http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/lib-www/la-pubs/00215722.pdf I...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 7, 2009
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23721
I seem to recall Ted Taylor hinting at such in McPhee's "Curve of Binding Energy" and George Dyson's "Project Orion." The details were not included, being...
Mike Harris
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Nov 7, 2009
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23722
I've always found the Orion concept quite interesting. I even did a panel on the topic in Vancouver with George Dyson a few years ago (I recommend his book...
Karl Johanson
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Nov 7, 2009
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23723
... We had an organically cooled reactor at the Whiteshell research station in Manitoba once. "Terphenyl" comes to mind as one of the components of the...
csceadraham
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23724
Hullo, Karl! ... I should read that some day.... Ehn, it'd probably only make me depressed. ... Pffft! In your opinion, maybe. The idiotic Test Ban Treaty...
mauk_mcamuk
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23725
This article from CBS News says that Japan is using "weapons grade" plutonium to fuel a nuclear power plant. Oh really? Doesn't "weapons grade" plutonium...
schedule80
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23726
... It could not. The pressure in a PWR is, if I recall correctly, 150 bar, same as 1500 metres deep in the ocean. Acceleration at 1 gee could make that much...
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