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by _n_b_ 2mo ago
Forget security (which worries me less), the legalities of this are notoriously tricky (especially if the ship might ever leave the waters of one nation), and the economics are even worse. I wouldn’t touch civil maritime nuclear with a barg
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by _n_b_ 2mo ago
A week late but... in my experience (potentially sector/location specific but I don't think so), most high-risk licensing and permitting activities come before construction starts, and certainly almost always before above-ground c
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by _n_b_ 2mo ago
I've worked on a few big EPC projects in a specialised industrial sector, including some in the UK. Three things drive the first digit of cost, assuming you've hired relatively competent engineers and constructors: 1. (Design) Bui
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by _n_b_ 2mo ago
> Lime takes a while to set (a few days?) Up to 30 days to set, and depending on the type of lime (hydraulic or non-hydraulic) and form/process (putty, hot mix, etc.) up to a year to reach full hardness.
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by _n_b_ 3mo ago
One thing I do miss from the early internet was less anonymity being the norm on Usenet/forums/etc. Discussions tend to stay more civil when both parties know there's a "real" person on the other end. Otherwise, my
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by _n_b_ 4mo ago
Yes. It's a little different between England & Wales, Scotland, and NI, but public rights of way (footpaths and bridleways) are very much a thing. My experience is that it works well in general, but some landowners are better than
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by _n_b_ 4mo ago
No, it isn't. It is called 'City of London Corporation' in the sense of being a municipal corporation, but effectively it's just a local authority... except that businesses still get a vote along with citizens.
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by _n_b_ 4mo ago
There's a (fairly basic but extant) English language requirement for naturalization, so it doesn't seem inconceivable that could be applied to a visa.
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by _n_b_ 8mo ago
Don’t forget extremely expensive vitamins!
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by _n_b_ 10mo ago
Their SNM license was for “up to 93.5% enriched”[1] and their decommissioning plan describes them as MTR-type Al-clad plates. So I’d take a reasonable guess that these are at 93% nominal enrichment, like ATR and HFIR fuel plates. [1] https
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by _n_b_ 10mo ago
Respectfully, have you ever actually read an NTSB report? They're incredibly thorough and consider both causes and contributing factors through a number of lenses with an exclusive focus on preventing accidents from occurring. Also, th
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by _n_b_ 10mo ago
> I suspect that the push for civilian SMRs is a disguised subsidy for the naval reactor programme It absolutely isn’t. There is very little crossover between the RR SMR (which is 470 MWe, not really an ‘SMR’ by IAEA definition) and a su
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by _n_b_ 1y ago
The parent's point is that these kind of systems can be implemented by postal services seamlessly, but not on a month's notice. I don't see how the form of the tax is material to the point being made.
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by _n_b_ 1y ago
Los Alamos is an NNSA lab; NNSA is a semi-autonomous component of DOE and its weapons activities budget is distinct from the general DOE budget. NNSA’s nonproliferation budget has been cut but they’re still very well funded on the weapons s
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by _n_b_ 1y ago
As a nuclear engineer, it's hard to use these kinds of intro tools without shouting things at your monitor. For this, it was the omission of xenon when discussing simulating reactor transients. I get that it's meant to be overly s
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by _n_b_ 2y ago
Offset financial years mean your finance people aren’t working furiously between Christmas and New Years getting the EoY stuff done. I feel bad for the ones in my company every year.
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by _n_b_ 2y ago
Yes, essentially this happens. PWRs and BWRs have operating limits on their power shape derived from doing those kinds of analyses. They’re tend do be more physical than “arbitrarily xenon-poisoned” but represent a variety of extreme and no
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by _n_b_ 2y ago
Well, context matters in looking at defamation claims. Let's say you were involved in a freak hunting accident and shot somebody, but you were never charged with any crimes. If the Fox News "hard news" program (if such a thin
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by _n_b_ 2y ago
What Fox News argued was a bit more nuanced than that all of Fox News isn't news. Rather, "Fox successfully argued that one particular segment on Tucker Carlson’s show could only be reasonably interpreted as making political argum
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by _n_b_ 2y ago
It’s Nebraska.
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by _n_b_ 2y ago
I would bet a few dollars that no Facility Security Officer (the name for people who manage security programs for defense contractor, despite sounding like a Sunday name for ‘guards’) in the entire NNSA complex has ever read Arms and Influe
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by _n_b_ 2y ago
Vultr has OpenBSD images too.
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by _n_b_ 2y ago
And his recording of the Cuban numbers station, if you want to hear what these sound like: https://www.mattblaze.org/private/17435khz-200810041700.mp3 Here's a sample of the referenced "Linconshire Poacher&qu
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by _n_b_ 2y ago
In the UK, it’s a civil matter in almost all cases.
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by _n_b_ 2y ago
If you use non-cloudflare DNS, it should work.
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by _n_b_ 3y ago
Microsoft bought th handsets division of Nokia. The part that makes carrier equipment is still very much an independant Finnish company…
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by _n_b_ 3y ago
But... the length of a coastline is famously not definitively measurable. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox )
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by _n_b_ 3y ago
https://archive.is/2023.12.22-160602/https://fortune.com/cry...
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by _n_b_ 3y ago
> several other huge fraudsters here (eg Caroline Ellison) get to walk Caroline Ellison pleaded to two counts of wire fraud, two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit secu
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by _n_b_ 3y ago
> Nuclear has a useful role to play. But it is in decline. In the US, absolute nuclear generation has been relatively stagnant over the last 10 years as plant shutdowns have been compensated by uprating other plants[1]. About 2.2 GW are

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