PolLambert

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by PolLambert 10y ago
New nuclear power plants are designed to be safe even when run by unsensible humans (up to 72h) Any nuclear storage has to designed to be safe and secure from the second you close it up, irrespective of what humans will be doing the next t
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by PolLambert 11y ago
No. Our space-time is definately NOT Anti de Sitter (AdS). AdS/CFT is nothing more than very nice mathematics with applications in different fields of physics. It's not applicable to our universe.
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by PolLambert 11y ago
In order to help people think about curvature and gravity, look at the following examples: - The surface of the earth is a 2 dimensional positive curved space. To see this, draw a triangle with corners on the north pole, on the equator near
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by PolLambert 11y ago
While I strongly disagree with you on nuclear power (especially since radioactive decay means that 'eternity' by definition is always safe, unlike chemical waste), I strongly agree that "Into Eternity" is a must-watch. T
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by PolLambert 11y ago
Load-following is both license and technical related in a chicken-and-egg-way. You need to incorporate load-following into your reactor design. More specifically: the speed with which a reactor can modulate its output while staying within n
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by PolLambert 11y ago
A nuclear power plant has thousands of tons of shielding. There are also no timing critical electronics sitting right next to the fuel.
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by PolLambert 11y ago
Since regulations don't allow any other option e.g. the US doesn't allow reprocessing. Also: what better place to temporarily store nuclear waste in the exact same place where it is produced where safety and security measures are
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by PolLambert 11y ago
Not great points: 1. Isn't a business POV or about deadends and it applies to any shift in energy production. 2. I think some geologists are going to want to have a word with him concerning tectonics. Also just because US can't do
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by PolLambert 11y ago
Which is why you bury it.
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by PolLambert 11y ago
Being very familiar with nuclear waste, I can say that, from a technical pov, it's a solved problem: just put it deep enough to comply with whatever safety level is required. The problem with nuclear waste is political not technical an
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by PolLambert 11y ago
The reverse is actually true. Nobody uses Thorium since you can't make bombs out of them. Thorium is very unsuited to weaponize since one of the byproducts of the fuel process (U-232) decays in to a hard gamma-emitter. This not only ma