Wientje

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by Wientje 15y ago
By same analogy, classical coal plants use millennia-old technology and that sounds even less ideal.
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by Wientje 15y ago
If I recall correctly, the dimensions of the early universe in these kinds of models depends on counting the degrees of freedom of the universe. At high energies, everything becomes an internal degree of freedom, hence the universe behaves
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by Wientje 15y ago
You're allowed to have a monopoly, you're not allowed to abuse it. If Apple ordered mp3hardware stores to stop selling other brands or Apple would raise it prizes, that would be abuse.
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by Wientje 15y ago
"We postulate the density continuum defined by the rule R03/T02 = R3/T2" T is in seconds, R is in meters. So R3/T2 is in cubic meters per square seconds. A density is something per cubic meters. How exactly do 'square seconds' form a densit
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by Wientje 15y ago
Experimental or not, it has among the least accidents per KWh. 500 is a big enough number for some reasonable statistics.
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by Wientje 16y ago
Radiation is not a static. If a particle happens to decay at your detector when it is detecting, you'll get a massive spike. As the radiation changes between hours, places and the specific isotopes decaying, it's near impossible to get fast
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by Wientje 16y ago
Not only are the units arbitrary, the forecast never goes above "1".
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by Wientje 16y ago
White smoke is not a sign of criticality...
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by Wientje 16y ago
It almost certainly didn't went critical. Spent fuel doesn't have enough U-235 for criticality. Moreover steam (boiling water) isn't a very good neutron moderator. I can't do the calculations but I seriously doubt it. Should the fuel have g
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by Wientje 16y ago
This may actually be true. Uranium decays into radioactive radon sooner or later. Radon is a gas so it escapes the earth. People breathe the stuff and inside the lungs it decays into polonium-210 sooner or later. By mining the uranium and s
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by Wientje 16y ago
Forget wikipedia and go the site of the World Health Organisation. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241594179_eng.pd... http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/chernobyl_di... The reports range from 4000 extra cancer
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by Wientje 16y ago
The one death reported so far was when the earthquake hit and he got crushed by a crane.
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by Wientje 16y ago
How, exactly, is this a disaster compared to the greater surroundings? Preliminary results are one death, some injured people and perhaps 10 people who'll die from cancer in 20 years time who otherwise wouldn't. Compare to the thousands d
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by Wientje 16y ago
for 4. Tritium is a beta emitter. Wherever it ends up when it decays, the radiation won't get very far.
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by Wientje 16y ago
As he is already dead, it won't be radiation that killed him. Radiation poisoning needs days to do its ugly work. For the person to die within hours, the containment must have failed to allow sufficient radiation out. Since this has not hap
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by Wientje 16y ago
Since they asked the prime minister for permission to pump sea water, I'm guessing that it was an option all along i.e. they have the facilities to do just a thing. The whole defence in depth concept relies on having a bazilion emergency op
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by Wientje 16y ago
my guess: 400 times the daily dose is what you would get from natural radiation in a year. This amounts to about 2 milli Sievert depending on where you live. Articifial radiation of which 95% comes from medical scans is also about 2 mSv. So
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by Wientje 16y ago
The average radioactive dose a person gets per year is about 3,6 to 5 milliSievert a year (for Belgium) of which 2,6 mSv from natural sources, 0,95mSv from medical examinations and 0,05mSv from industry (of which 0,01mSv due to nuclear powe
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by Wientje 16y ago
It kinda makes you think. If we delete all compilers in the world, there would be no easy way to make new compilers. It also means that your compiler on your PC can trace its heritage back to the first machine coed compiler ever written, li
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by Wientje 16y ago
I am not a GCC toolchain expert, but what is the trouble with someone hosting a GCC for OS X binary?
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by Wientje 16y ago
I wouldn't try browsing with a 386 laptop. I highly doubt you could still buy one in '95. Funny as historical comparisons are, some accuracy would be appreciated.
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by Wientje 16y ago
The smallish difference is irrelevant unless you care about 720p movies. Double dpi would not be irrelevant as the results are much more obvious to the eye in most situations.
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by Wientje 16y ago
Except that we got ten times more thorium than uranium in the crust.
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by Wientje 16y ago
Not necessarily. As long as other byproducts like Plutonium 241 etc. are created in reasonable measures as well, the resulting Plutonium will be way to unstable to use in bombs. Any Uranium reactor produces Pu-239 but don't present a seriou
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by Wientje 16y ago
I am guessing that these features are 'simply' a recompile away if the software uses Apple API's for all its document handling.
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by Wientje 16y ago
As far as 26 July '45, the Japanese refused to surrender. The guys that forced Japan in to submission were Little Boy and Fat Man and they had an academic background. The only leadership required from the 'sport trained' generals was choosi