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by cladari 2y ago
The R in ALARA is reasonably.
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by cladari 7y ago
Anecdote - After TMI the NRC mandated that all nuclear plants install a system to automatically initiate auxiliary feed water to the steam generators if certain criteria were met. The Combustion Engineering version of this was called Aux Fe
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by cladari 7y ago
I don't think it's possible to exercise your way to weight loss. A handful of Oreo's will negate an hour workout. Simply cutting out as much added sugar as possible will drop weight quickly on just about anyone. Cutting out
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by cladari 7y ago
In Japan they shut down each plant yearly for inspection. Everywhere else it's done on the refueling cycle. The plant I worked at was on a two year cycle so each year one of the two plants shut down for about an 8 week refuel/over
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by cladari 7y ago
I got a speeding in a school zone ticket and fought it because the points for that offence are high. The sign gave times the speed limit was in effect but I missed it and there were no other cars on the road so I didn't have that as a
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by cladari 7y ago
Unless you live in or near a fairly large urban center, or some large college towns, you won't find movie theaters showing small films.
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by cladari 7y ago
I'd add Americas Test Kitchen - independent testing of kitchen appliances and basics. Recipe how to's after extensive testing. Good cooking tips.
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by cladari 7y ago
I'm remembering back 40 years here. I worked in the engine room of a nuclear powered cruiser. We had a switch called something like "battle bypass" that would bypass all the auto scram functions. The military calls a shutdown
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by cladari 7y ago
There are plenty of motorcycles with belt drive, the suspension doesn't seem to be a problem.
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by cladari 7y ago
We also lowered the voting age to 18.
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by cladari 7y ago
South Texas is a 4 loop Westinghouse design and Palo Verde is a 2 loop System 80 Combustion Engineering design. Neither is experimental or unusually dangerous.
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by cladari 7y ago
The 737 has a better glide ratio than a Cessna 172 when both set up correctly.
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by cladari 7y ago
Am I missing it because I don't see flaps mentioned anywhere in that link.
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by cladari 8y ago
Licensed nuclear plant control room operators go through 40 hours of training every 6 week. Generally 5 weeks of operations rotation then 1 week of training, all year, every year. Twenty hours of classroom and 20 hours of simulator training
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by cladari 8y ago
This is the straight scoop on the development of the M16. This is the channel for all things Colt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE0xcxwZg2M
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by cladari 8y ago
It wouldn't stabilize tracer rounds, it was perfectly fine with standard issue rounds. The manual bold close wasn't in Stoners original design, it was requested by the military. In my opinion the internal piston design is the true
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by cladari 8y ago
My first wife was an ER nurse then cardiac critical care. The doctors would look for her to talk to the families of patients who had died because they said she was good at it.
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by cladari 8y ago
You can get breakfast at the Breakers for 50 bucks or the Waffle House down the street for 10 dollars. The Breakers waitstaff will get a 10 dollar tip and the Waffle house staff will get 2 dollars for the exact same meal and the exact same
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by cladari 8y ago
If he said that in 1970 he only had 3 years wait for item 2. The IBM Selectric II Correcting was introduced in '73.
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by cladari 8y ago
My youngest of 3 is now 32 years old. I've recently been thinking about the oft heard "I'm always amazed by the things my grown children remember and the things they don't". I've been trying to discover why the
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by cladari 8y ago
It doesn't cost the hospital a nickel to have that doctor walk into the patients room. You will get a bill for that from the doctor's practice, not from the hospital.
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by cladari 8y ago
What they are talking about is what is used to condense the steam exiting the main turbine which is the thing that spins the generator. DC uses seawater to run through the condenser and then back out to the sea, warming the water about 20 d
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by cladari 8y ago
I think you would see electric cars take off if those without garages or driveways had a way to charge them nightly. I know I would have one on my list. Perhaps use the government buyers incentive to instead give a write down to developers
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by cladari 8y ago
Basic systems will waste 4 gallons of water for every gallon of purified water depending on input pressure and temperature. Lower input temperature and pressure will increase waste and lower output.
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by cladari 8y ago
Donaghy told his handler (allegedly) that he could swing a game by 6 points, anything more and it would be too obvious.
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by cladari 8y ago
When I was diagnosed with cancer of the base of my tongue and my neck my doctor outlined my options and the need to waste as little time as possible. I suddenly realized how much trust she was asking me to place in her. I took 2 days for my
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by cladari 8y ago
"I intend to fully cooperate but first I'm going to talk to a lawyer to get advice on the best way to do that".
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by cladari 8y ago
Spent fuel can be repossessed into weapons grade material and into commercial fuel. Europe, Russia and Japan all reprocessed spent fuel into commercial fuel.
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by cladari 8y ago
Modern revolvers don't have the "striking the hammer can discharge the round" because they now use a hammer bar. You can load all the chambers without fear of this happening. You may be surpised to learn that all modern revol
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by cladari 8y ago
In a pressurized water reactor the water is the moderator (bounces and slows the neutrons) and dissolved boron is the poison used to control the reaction.

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