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by cocoablazing 9y ago
This isn’t relevant to the fact that upgrading safety and safety support systems is less costly and a smaller engineering task than designing a new reactor. Upgrades to such systems, including flex interfaces, has occurred across the US fle
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Moving several EDGs and support system a couple kilometers is a small task in comparison to the design, qualification, construction, and training associated with a new power reactor design. There’s nothing very complicated about the EDG bus
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
That is an extrapolation using the unproven linear no threshold hypothesis.
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
An SFP fire is not a reactor meltdown, and the distribution of fission products from a SFP and a weapon are also very dissimilar. SFP fires will result in long-lived contamination over plumes of >100km that would result in exclusion zone
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Most of the quants and quant devs I work with are out-of-work physicists who want to provide for their families. Most of them would rather be tenured. I work in this industry because I cannot find employment in my field of engineering near
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
We maintain a lightweight platform alongside a legacy platform that is an untestable ball of mud. This resulted from rapid implementation of business demands over the years, along with a practice of addressing numerous data quality problem
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Nuclear Winter won’t matter when spent nuclear fuel pools in those nations undergo meltdowns following sustained losses of offsite power caused by catastrophic damage to the national electrical distribution system. The fuel in a nuclear rea
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
https://www.orau.org/ptp/articlesstories/invisiblelight.htm
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
You can build a cheap and heavily shielded ionization or Geiger system, or a more expensive spectrometry system. In this case, Ruthenium is a condensed solid, and would be ideally detected by an air particle sampling system that continuousl
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
In reality, so many people have a problem with it that they are actively interfering with the code of the webpages to the point of endangering the business model of much of the web.
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
DPRK leadership wouldn't know a strike was underway until most of their military capability could be destroyed by stratcom. A strike would not originate from North Dakota -- it would come from stealth bombers right on top of their arti
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
You’re assuming that China’s nuclear force posture is like that of the US or RF. It is much more robust against false alarms. Given the massive alert arsenal the US possesses, along with the historical fact that both the USSR and US sat out
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
If the military learned a lesson from exploding a reactor with an automatic control system, you might never know - it's not required to be reported to the public.
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Yes, steam demand controls the power response of a nuclear reactor.
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
I can't believe these watchstanders had the LOK they should have had on the steering system, or every one involved in ship control would have been able to immediately identify the problem and realign the steering system, other than bmo
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
A key occurrence during this mishap: 0127 The Officer of the Deck ordered course to the right to course 240T, but rescinded the order within a minute. Instead, the Officer of the Deck ordered an increase to full speed and a rapid turn to t
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
A "dumb" plastic ID won't help either because they could still retain a badge they previously "lost".
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Ironic that this system was built and is used for communicating with systems capable of creating radiation belts. https://fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/verdin.htm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Plenty of high-paying quantitative jobs requires such a degree and experience. The majority of phd’s don’t go on to support their family with a tenure-track academic salary.
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
It sounds like he’s talking about scripts generated for research, rather than code for components intended to be persistent.
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
The Europeans were developing one of the most interesting secure distributed platforms 10 years ago as part of the European Multilaterally Secure Computing Base initiative, but it appears to have gone dark. Maybe funding priorities shifted,
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Think about the market for those teachers. Anecdotally, I took one physics course in my secondary education, and about eight math courses.
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Lead is a high-Z material, which provides a lot of electrons to interact with photons (and charged particles). It’s not good for stopping the neutrons that pose the danger here, because of the disparity in mass between the shield nuclei and
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
OSX makes these interfaces somewhat usable by providing a keyboard-driven filter for all menu items. Microsoft should copy this feature.
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Actually, all large nuclear weapons states have agreed to do that, they just ignore their treaty obligations in perpetuity. NPT: "Article VI Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
A 20MT weapon detonation could result in disabling the global electrical production and distribution system, as well as permanently disabling the electronics necessary to move food, water, and medical supplies. Your thesis is that an instan
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
The mid-80's were actually the peak of cold war TNW preparation. NATO's provocation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83 Soviet response: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RYAN
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
This fallout remained in the atmosphere at such significant concentrations that it intermittently interfered with terrestrial radiological contamination measurement for decades after above-ground testing was banned.
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Volcanic eruption energy is partitioned between thermal and mechanical energy. The mechanical energy is distributed between translation (ejecta) and vibrational (tremors). These proportions vary significantly between volcanoes and eruptions
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by cocoablazing 9y ago
Airburst nuclear weapons would be deployed against dispersed soft targets prone to firestorms - firestorms large enough to elevate soot into the region where it can mix with ionized fission products and weapon debris.

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