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by leonidasrup 1mo ago
The severity of nuclear power plant failures is also decreasing. "Radiation effects from the Fukushima nuclear accident" "A June 2012 Stanford University study estimated, using a linear no-threshold model, that the radioactiv
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Not surprising, see the Cumulative CO₂ emissions. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2
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Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules(nordiskpost.com)
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Cuba, Venezuela, Iran have many problems, nationalizing energy production is only one of them, mostly it is the corrupt government. On the other hand France fully nationalized EDF and results are good. https://www.edf.fr/en&
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Governments have always intervened into energy markets to implement policy goals. German Coal penny The coal levy was a surcharge on electricity prices levied by energy suppliers in the Federal Republic of Germany to finance hard coal minin
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Dr M.V. Ramana argued for establishing a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East, even criticizing United States approach towards nuclear armed Israel. https://www.cndpindia.org/a-nuclear-weapons-free-zone-in-the... &q
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"A 2009 poll conducted by the Uranium Information Centre found that Australians in the 40 to 55 years age group are the "most trenchantly opposed to nuclear power". This generation was raised during the Cold War, experienced
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The list of installed VVER-440 reactors (slightly larger then the official definition of SMR - rated electrical power of less than 300 megawatts (MWe)) is long: WWER-440 V-230 reactor B179 - Units 3 and 4 of the Novovoronezh NPP (Rus
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We are much wiser now, because the nuclear industry learns and improves. Similar evolution can be seen for example in aircraft industry, flying in 1970s was much more dangerous with many more incidents then flying now. https://ww
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The author of the article "M. V. Ramana" is long-time opponent of nuclear energy , mostly because of nuclear weapon proliferation concerns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._V._Ramana See for example: "Bo
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Climate Trace Releases May 2026 Emissions Data(climatetrace.org)
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"The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys independently and at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespe
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It took many years for Andrew Wiles and Richard Taylor to prove the modularity theorem for semistable elliptic curves. Sometimes even Fields Medalists are not sure if a complex theorem about a complex mathematical object is 100% correct. Fr
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Expert mathematicians may not be able to explain how they find a proof of a difficult mathematical statement, but once a correct proof is found, it can be, with sufficient work, be formalized (most mathematicians don't do this part). T
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Jam resistance and spoof resistantance are very different. What work is done to make GPS more jam resistant?
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"Colligan attached an email he sent to Jobs in Aug. 2007, in which he told the late Apple exec that his idea was "likely illegal."" https://www.pcmag.com/news/steve-jobs-threatened-palm-with-p... h
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by leonidasrup 1mo ago
In the 21st century you don't do astronavigation by hand, you use cameras, computers and software. Astro-inertial guidance is used for example in submarine-launched ballistic missiles. "Astro-inertial guidance, or stellar-inertial
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"In trials conducted by the General Lighthouse Authorities of UK and Ireland, a 1.5W radio jammer was able to knock out GPS signals over a range of 30 kilometers. However, to do the same to the Loran system, you'd need a 40ft towe
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Because GPS and other GNSS have only a very weak signal strength there are no jam resistant frequencies, you can jam them all very efficiently, or you can jam them very efficiently in selective way (jam BeiDou, but not GPS). GPS was jamme
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Swiss nuclear plant back online after heatwaves(sg.news.yahoo.com)
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Malacca Dilemma(en.wikipedia.org)
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The US has CLOUD Act, it has a backdoor in almost every data center on Earth. Because: "The CLOUD Act allows United States authorities to request data from cloud providers and other covered service providers regardless of where the dat
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How well is QMSK protected from a serious attacker?
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March 1933 election "For the general election of 5 March 1933, the Nazis were allied with other nationalist and conservative factions. At a secret meeting on 20 February, major German industrialists had agreed to finance the Nazis&#x27
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Restriction on the movement of people, animals, and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests is much older then COVID. " The word quarantine comes from quarantena or quarantaine, meaning "forty days",
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Hot or Not: What Makes Some Places Naturally High in Radioactivity(science.howstuffworks.com)
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There are thermal baths with quite high concentration of radon. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180306-a-spa-where-pati... Most exposed are not the visitors, but the thermal bath workers. "Workers and vi
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Of course Silicon Valley is in denial, when their bonuses depend on AI. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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It's a U.S. national security policy to prevent countries which don't already have capabilities to enrich uranium or reprocess spend nuclear fuel from aquiring such capabilities. Technologies which have low energy consumption and
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The 90% level is not a strict number. You can have nuclear explosion with lower levels of enrichment, but the total mass of the uranium is very large, therefor not a practical weapon. For example you need 100kg of 60% enriched Uranium-235

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