Accujack

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by Accujack 4y ago
Both. The combustion products of any of the chemicals listed as being on the train so far are CO, CO2, HCl, and trace phosgene. Only VCM has the last two. The HCl is the biggest risk because it's the largest product by volume and
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by Accujack 4y ago
Do you know how much phosgene, though? It's trace amounts. Barely enough to detect.
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by Accujack 4y ago
I've researched this recently. Thermal decomposition of Vinyl Chloride Monomer forms HCl, CO, CO2, and trace phosgene. Thermal decomposition of literally all the other chemicals listed produces CO and CO2. It's likely that a certa
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by Accujack 4y ago
That's because someone is pushing very hard for the after effects of the derailing to be believed catastrophic. There's zero critical thinking being applied because they (whomever they are) have been building up belief leveraging
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by Accujack 4y ago
Read the EPA reports that have been posted... it contains the data from the static and roaming air quality testing. It shows that there are pm2.5 particulates around in slightly elevated amounts, but none of the chemicals from the train.
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by Accujack 4y ago
I wonder about who is pushing narratives about this vs. the balloons in an attempt to distract the public, but I can explain why the derailment isn't much of a story. It's because it's being handled fairly well. There is a c
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by Accujack 4y ago
I posted some things on Reddit about it, but I'll summarize here. There are a lot of alarmist people posting about how they're sure the town is "uninhabitable" and that it's being "covered up". The truth i
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by Accujack 4y ago
1) Google "paypal market share" 2) Prove a negative? How about you search on Google for stories of people who lost money to paypal due to locked accounts? Lots of people just write off the money lost because there's no w
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by Accujack 4y ago
Yes, but that's irrelevant. If prescription drugs were handled as badly as weapons waste was historically, it would be a problem too. Same for e.g. plastic waste, food waste, or just about anything else. Military developing weapons
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by Accujack 4y ago
There aren't any of that design operating any more, and no more will be built, so they're not a proliferation issue. That particular design could be used that way (and was by the UK) which is a major reason no more will be built
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by Accujack 4y ago
> if every plane crash created a 50-mile diameter exclusion zone that had to be kept off-limits for 50-100 years without extensive decontamination, then we'd think twice If every reactor accident created an exclusion zone like this
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by Accujack 4y ago
Newer designs (existing reactors use 1970s technology) are cheaper and faster to build. Look up the concept of "Small Modular Reactors".
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by Accujack 4y ago
No, Yucca mountain (burial site) was mostly for non fuel waste, scientific, and weapons waste. The spent fuel rods were supposed to be moved to above ground storage at the same site until they could be reprocessed or became inert. Most wa
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by Accujack 4y ago
Nice to see you didn't actually read the article. It's written by a woman, by the way.
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by Accujack 4y ago
There's more radioactivity in coal fired plant emissions gases than is coming from a storage cask. For that matter, you are emitting some radiation right now from radioactive potassium in your body. Everyone is.
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by Accujack 4y ago
>"Conflation" means (or at least implies) that one thing has been mistaken for the other. Yes, and the word is being used correctly here. >Nuclear reactors have been entwined with nuclear weapons production since the very be
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by Accujack 4y ago
The pellets are homogeneous. The reprocessing of fuel involves melting or dissolving them and chemically separating out the waste products, with the remaining unused fuel going back into new pellets. The waste products are spread throughou
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by Accujack 4y ago
>If we paint the Earth with reactors No need. About 5,300 1GW reactors would be enough to supply all electric needs world wide. With renewables added in, the number is even smaller. Electricity can be sent over wires, too, so there&#x
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by Accujack 4y ago
Electricity can be delivered over thousands of miles with the right wires in place, so there's no need to spread reactors everywhere, especially considering we need relatively few nuclear power plants to meet everyone's energy nee
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by Accujack 4y ago
>That is a rhetorical tactic that kind of misses the point - it's not that weapons reactors produce fundamentally leakier waste than civilian reactors, it's that the military has a long history of not disposing of dangerous che
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by Accujack 4y ago
>Why would you compare commercial nuclear energy production to the military scenarios, which have a completely different legal, supervisory, penalty and authority structure? Because the article took away their usual talking points regard
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by Accujack 4y ago
> if that mattered Medicare and Medicaid would be a dramatically better system than private insurance They are in the most important respect, that being they negotiate pricing with health care providers. Medicare pays significantly less
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by Accujack 4y ago
Exactly. Paypal should be regulated as a bank. They're a de facto monopoly for auction payments, but they are covered by fewer banking rules than money transfer businesses. They have no obligation to be fair and there is no real appe
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by Accujack 4y ago
Putting the memory dies on a substrate die alongside the CPU and GPU dies will, however.
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by Accujack 4y ago
Like the Alpha CPU.
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by Accujack 4y ago
You're correct. There's no shortage of helium, at least for several hundred years. There just aren't many gas wells capturing it because it didn't make any economic sense to do that until recently.
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by Accujack 4y ago
From the article, they're planning on the reactors being unmanned (but monitored). So, no employees watching it.
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by Accujack 4y ago
It uses TRISO fuel, which are fissionable materials enclosed in a carbon and ceramic shell that's extremely tough and can handle far higher temperatures than are present in a reactor without melting. The shell prevents the release of r
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by Accujack 4y ago
He's the first author listed on this paper, too. It's the reason he took a hiatus from filming, because he discovered this and had to write it into a paper rather than just talking about it on Youtube.
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by Accujack 4y ago
Risky click there :)

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