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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
This is said a lot but I don't think regs as written are necessarily the major cost driver. I did a nuclear industry survey to ask what specific regulations people would want changed recently. The one where using commercial grade QA in
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Say whatever is in your mind freely.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
My mom had these. After 25 years they started rapidly cycling the furnace which burned out line 3 ignitors in rapid succession. Now replaced with smarter digital but not networked ones that throttle it a bit more.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
I own two and they are bulletproof with Home Assistant. When away from home I just wireguard in and adjust/monitor as needed.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
For books or significant document sets I definitely agree with the author on this. The builtin features for glossary and index are also nice. The extensibility is amazing. Some people are even doing formal requirements and lifecycle managem
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Yes, according to the comments in the patch, you are correct.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Truly amazing resource. Thanks to the folks funding this, and doing the scans.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
People are looking into it, but I don't think there's all that much promise. Fine structure of shielding doesn't really matter to an energetic particle that's blowing through meters of it. Gamma rays are stopped by elect
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Not really. You have to stop neutrons and gammas. Concrete does neutrons but not gammas, tungsten does gammas but not neutrons. You can also use water on neutrons or lead on gammas. There are many combos and composites. Oh and neutrons caus
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
If they radiation shield it properly, I'd like to think so. That won't do anything to 8 ft of concrete plus 4" of tungsten. Plus the fuel form holds in a lot of the fission products even when scattered around. It may overheat
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Meh it's a little bit worse, because smaller reactors burn a smaller fraction of their fuel and therefore make more volume of high level waste per kWh generated. But it's not THAT much worse. Nuclear waste is already ridiculously
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
It'd be a much different field if we had kept it up. I spend a lot of time in nuclear archival material, and facilities like CANEL in Middletown CT absolutely blow my mind. They had hundreds of people working on crazy reactor technolog
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Yes it's real. There are a lot of good people who I know personally and a lot of funding going into this. They have a plan to get fuel and will try to turn the first one on in Idaho soonish (like next year)
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Well no one does. The feds cancelled Yucca mountain and so there's nowhere for anyone to put nuclear waste. By law it belongs to the feds. So everyone just leaves it in the reactor's parking lot for now, in big concrete and steel
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
It's a lot different from a TRIGA. It doesn't have hydrogen in the fuel and it uses high temperature/high pressure helium gas as the coolant (vs. water in a TRIGA). We did run a nuclear reactor in space once that did use TRIG
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Yeah there's currently a large push to dismantle the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and give reactor regulation authorities to the states.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Most nuclear-powered ships have reactor powers in the 40-300 MWt range, a bit beyond the typical 10 MW limit for 'microreactors'
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
This is a passionate team working on a very hard problem. They have guts and skills. I've always loved microreactors for fringe remote power where people are willing to pay 20x more than normal diesel generator prices. Like Antarctica,
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Their goals and drive are good. Their focus on hardware is excellent. I just wish they could slightly tone down some of the bravado, but that's just a style preference I guess.
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Who Is Valar Atomics?(utahinvestigative.org)
3 points by acidburnNSA 1y ago|1 comments
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
And the gitea fork, forgejo does too.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Big customers though, like the VA and NIH
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
As a nuclear power historian, this resource is unbelievably valuable. I've been using it for years and it constantly delivers the goods. It contains incredible multitudes.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Nuclear reactor cores can be very small, like the size of a snow globe (see Clementine), especially if they use highly-concentrated fissile material like plutonium or highly-enriched uranium. But if it's making more than a few hundred
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
Jellyfin right?
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
I've been building an interactive nuclear reactor scoping tool to help people build intuition about how different types of nuclear reactors work and cost at different sizes. I ran a bunch of simple reactor simulations and this basicall
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
No SD slot is a showstopper for many.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
They are certainly financially successful. But they haven't split an atom yet so jury is still out on whether their reactor products work well.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
The US built WIPP. It's not licensed for commercial waste but it sure is a long term geologic disposal site.
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by acidburnNSA 1y ago
I can write em-dashes on my keyboard in one second using the compose key: right alt + ---

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