borism

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by borism 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents#P...
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by borism 16y ago
http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/featured_images/japan_...
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by borism 16y ago
Hydro - yes. Nuclear - no. Denmark and Norway - no nuclear. Sweden - 45% nuclear. Finland - 30% nuclear.
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by borism 16y ago
really? Some better [citation needed]. 2002: Scandinavia and the Baltic countries had the cleanest air in Europe this summer while Greece, France and Italy faced the worst smog levels, said the European Environment Agency (EEA). http://w
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by borism 16y ago
but also very true, no? yes. but why do you think that is? people aren't afraid of nuclear for no reason. While it isn't magic, it isn't exactly trivial either, even for experts. Could you explain to me how the hell fuel in Reactor 4 sto
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by borism 16y ago
that's what nuclear fanatics here don't seem to get. as I argued in other thread about the original numbers, what matters aren't direct deaths attributed to one or the other energy source. what matters (to me at least) is how different ener
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by borism 16y ago
Sure it affected much more people but still indeed. who cares about them...
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by borism 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera sits on top of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_hotspot Hotspots seem to be unaffected by plate movements - plate moves but hotspot remains in place. That's how Hawaiian island ch
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by borism 16y ago
actually they were designed 60 years ago. they were built 50 years ago.
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by borism 16y ago
2037: The US-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has said it agrees with the assessment of France's Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) that the incident at Fukushima should be classified as level 6 on the Internationa
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by borism 16y ago
I'm sorry, but poor (almost non-existent) communication between TEPCO, Japan Government and IAEA regarding the condition at Fukushima 1 I've witnessed in the last few days make it look exactly like USSR where I was born too. Japanese peop
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by borism 16y ago
really? looks like 50/50 to me, and the biggest ones are certainly surface ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal_mines_in_the_Unite...
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by borism 16y ago
well, we all live on planet Earth, so the question about geothermal is just about how deep you're willing to dig. Geothermal is pretty nice IMHO.
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by borism 16y ago
I'm not against nuclear. Sure, fission is the most energietic natural force we conquered as of today and we have to use it. Hopefully fusion will come online in this century. I'm just saying that of all energy sources we have today the wind
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by borism 16y ago
surely wind lights your lights just like nuclear does? at what cost? and by cost I don't mean market cost. surely cost of electricity in Japan didn't account for nuclear meltdown possibility, thus far. of course nuclear is still better th
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by borism 16y ago
But the nuclear power is already here and was for last 60 years. You can't put the genie back into bottle, unless we're going to have nuclear war and humankind will be reduced to stone age level, which incidentally is one of the things IAEA
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by borism 16y ago
safety isn't just about deaths. we're all gonna die eventually, independently of our power source. what is the most important factor to me is the quality of life provided by different energy sources. personally wind is the big winner there
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by borism 16y ago
bringing up the 4,000 mentioned in the IAEA report, which is like asking Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld of writing up about the effects of the Iraq mess I wouldn't liken IAEA to Dick and Bush... It is the only credible international organ
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by borism 16y ago
the lack of communication between TEPCO, Japanese govt and IAEA is a cause of serious concern as well, IMHO.
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by borism 16y ago
good comment from there: I wonder how the news that two reactors are in partial meltdown, six out of ten are without any cooling and in the japanese prefecture of Miyagi Sunday radiation levels 400 times above normal have been measured fit
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by borism 16y ago
I don't think the time is right to start declaring safety or unsafety of nuclear energy as the meltdown is reportedly underway at two reactors. I'm all for nuclear energy, but we must not fool ourselves into thinking that we can prevent eve
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by borism 16y ago
Check the winds! Chernobyl is only 100km from Kiev, but as the winds were blowing in the opposite direction the Ukraine's capital was unscathed and the majority of fallout was over Belarus. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/japan-q
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by borism 16y ago
wow, what a flamebait article...
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by borism 16y ago
0426: Japanese government spokesman Yukio Edano says radioactive meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors at the plant - AFP. via BBC
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by borism 16y ago
this was a comment written by US scientist on CNN website, not scientific article. I'm all for SI, but units of measurements do not matter as long as you know what you're talking about.
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by borism 16y ago
VanityFair would not have written this article back in 2005 when thousands of western engineers were making millions in the world's largest tax-free construction site. excellent point! I've had the same tour experience as you with pakista
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by borism 16y ago
consistency and ecosystem opportunities couldn't he just write "you're fucked, we're the boss" without all this corporate BS speech?
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by borism 16y ago
I agree with both of you, but at the end of the day, you can just delete all the unneeded stuff from the /Developer folder.
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by borism 16y ago
too early to jump to any conclusions. in case of radioactive leak the area affected will be million times larger than any refinery fire.
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by borism 16y ago
so the correct answer is that this one was 1000 times more powerful than Kobe, and also very shallow (depth of 24 km), but fortunately offshore (but unfortunately that means powerful tsunami).

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