No, just yours.
Good insights.
I'm not up to speed on the latest projections for pitchblende reserves tbh. Back in my reactor design days projections were that we had well over 130 years worth. The number you cite seems reasonable in that context.
Also agree about breeder reactors as a more mainstream design consideration for future plants. Why not take advantage of the vast quan ies of Actinides lying around? Reduce waste stockpiles by using them as a fuel source.
Neon showers?
Neon isn't radioactive.
More than 68% of New European Electricity Capacity Came From Wind and Solar in 2011
Even with a few countries pulling back on government support of the industry because of fiscal troubles, 2011 was still a huge year for deployment — with wind and solar alone representing almost 70% of new capacity.
That’s almost a 10-fold increase over deployment in 2000, when only 3.5 GW of renewable energy projects were installed. Last year, 32 GW of renewables — mostly wind and solar — were deployed across European countries.
The figures come from the European Wind Energy Association, which just released a report on industry growth.
Growth in Europe has consistently outstripped forecasts. The EU currently has a target of getting 20% of its final energy (heat, electricity and fuels) from renewable energy. Numerous countries have already surpassed their needed targets in the electricity and heating sectors, and it’s likely that the entire region will move past the goal well ahead of schedule.
It’s expected that renewable electricity sources will meet 34% of demand in Europe by 2020, with 25 of 27 countries to surpass their targets beforehand.
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/0...solar-in-2011/
Latest Accident at San Onofre Nuclear Plant Worries Activists, Residents
“And now we have an incident in our own backyard.”
The incident to which Hirsch refers happened Jan. 31, when a warning sensor detected a small leak in a recently installed steam-generator tube at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which is on the beach 45 miles north of San Diego, near one of Southern California’s most popular surfing spots.
The leak resulted in the release of a small amount of radioactive gas into the atmosphere, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the plant has been shut down ever since as investigators try to determine what happened.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...residents.html
Nuke mgmt: "we don't know what happened, but nobody worry. we know all is OK"
Lol....I can't see the pic because my phone is f'd up....but yes, lazy. I look thru more "for construction" drawings on a daily basis and I have no choice but to put the quotes around the words "for construction". Perhaps you should go easier on them while they're students so that they'll have something left in the tank when it comes to their actual careers.Not what they used to be? Lazy? You show me a lazy engineer today, and I'll show you someone who is not an engineer. I've had students go through nervous breakdowns with engineering courses with this sort of thing. These designs have been vetted over many years. It's not some bag designed Total Gym completed in 3 months.
1940 Tacoma Bridge. Not what they used to be.
And you're correct about these designs in particular, and I'm sure they've been vetted. My comment was more just a shot at the state of basic engineering and drawings in today's market.....imo.....but I bet most contractors would agree with me.
Lol....thanks for clearing that up....and I generally agree that its not all the engineers fault, but the end result are really piss poor drawings, so its very easy to blame them first.
They simply learned the hard way about wind and resonance of those scale of structures.
LOL...
WTF is that?
Now if you are talking about exited neon when light is produced, there is some induce radiation. But it's not radioactivity.
The element Ne (neon) has three stable isotopes. The radioactive isotopes are man made and very short lived.
What do you suppose that thing measures mouse?
IQ levels?
LOL...
No ...
In order to keep lighting at constant levels optimal for coral growth it is possible to measure and monitor levels of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) as well as LUX. Metal halide lamps alongside fluorescent lamps will loose some intensity over a period of time. By measuring PAR it is possible to adjust lighting levels accordingly:
Change MH and fluorescent lamps only when it is needed and at the right time
Adjust the distance of the lighting fixture from the aquarium. The distance of the lighting fixture from the aquarium can be increased when the lamps are new and later lowered to maintain constant lighting levels
Position corals requiring more intensive light at a correct depth
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/sc...-approach.htmlA commission appointed to find alternatives to a failed plan to store nuclear waste in the Nevada desert declared on Thursday that the United States would have to develop a “consent-based approach” for choosing a site because leaving the decision to Congress had failed.
By securing local consent, the panel said, the government might avoid the kind of conflicts that led to the cancellation of plans to create a repository at Yucca Mountain, a site 100 miles from Las Vegas, in 2010. It noted that local willingness had been crucial to decision-making on sites for nuclear waste depots in Finland, France, Spain and Sweden.
The panel, the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, also suggested that the government, which assumed responsibility for high-level waste 30 years ago, take the job of managing the waste out of the hands of the Energy Department and give it to a federally chartered corporation created for that purpose.
Such an agency would be more effective than the Department of Energy, which “must balance multiple agendas or policy priorities,” it said.
The commission, appointed two years ago by President Obama, warned that finding a solution to the waste issue was urgent. “This generation has a fundamental, ethical obligation to avoid burdening future generations with the entire task of finding a safe, permanent solution for managing hazardous nuclear materials they had no part in creating,” the panel wrote.
Most of those materials are civilian, but some are leftovers of a half-century of nuclear weapons production, beginning in the mid-1940s. A smaller volume is from naval propulsion reactors and government research reactors.
Congress settled on Yucca Mountain as a disposal site in 1987 after powerful senators from Louisiana, Texas and Washington fought off proposals for waste storage in their states. But when Harry Reid of Nevada became Senate majority leader after the 2006 elections, he maneuvered the project to a near-standstill, and Mr. Obama, campaigning in 2008, promised to shelve it if elected.
The Energy Department announced in 2010 that it was withdrawing its application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to operate the site.
post your IQ score.
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What is the amount of times that mouse will tell everyone that he should be on the radio today?
Oh, we weren't playing jeopardy?
he still doin that?
Yeah, I ventured into the 'club' for some reason that is totally beyond me.
how many times will he and dan not tell us what happened on 911.
Are you saying you wouldn't tune in?
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