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by peterpathname 13y ago
"The idea that the best way to promote economic advancement in the Northern Territory is to post six of the loneliest security guards in the country to guard against people tampering with radioactive waste for the next three centuries absol
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by peterpathname 13y ago
what's your point? people do get old and sick. the fact that radiation exists naturally in the environment doesn't mean its good for you, and doesnt mean that more won't pose an increased health hazard
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by peterpathname 13y ago
I disagree with 'zero' deaths. the UNSCEAR report does not say zero deaths. it says that the increased cancer deaths due to the reactor disaster over the coming decadrs will not be statistically discernable. That's not zero deaths.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
the concern is not just about a single power reactor being misused to produce bomb fuel, but about the picewise contribution a nuclear power program makes to the nation's capacity to achieve their weapons ambitions
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by peterpathname 13y ago
safe reactors certainly do exist : on paper. I'm old enough to remember chernobyl. at the time, we were assured it was a dodgy old design, and that they future models would be foolproof. Then fukushima, and we started hearing the same sooth
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by peterpathname 13y ago
to me, a worst case scenario is that one or more of the nutcases who leapfrog a weapons program off the back of the materials, technologies, facilities and expertise developed thru their power program, decides to test a bomb. or shake it an
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by peterpathname 13y ago
oh, stop being so sensible, pick a side like everyone else ...
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by peterpathname 13y ago
I think you're talking about the Academy of Sciences, in their review of the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation report. Here's my layman understanding: for many years, this authoritative basis for nuclear safety regulation recommended
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by peterpathname 13y ago
to me, 'large' in th context of evaluating whether your project would benefit from a more heavyweight framework like ember or angular means 'lots of objects on the page'. I've got a web app in backbone that doesn't do any tricky js, isnt to
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by peterpathname 13y ago
FYI, where I am, people other than pensioners pay a small annual registration / insurance fee to the ambulance service to avoid large fees upon use of the service
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by peterpathname 13y ago
some theoretical msr designs promise to produce less waste, but msr does not necessarily lead to a different waste profile
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by peterpathname 13y ago
... and then they build new ones.
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by peterpathname 13y ago
I can't really follow how this reactor reduces the risk of (further) proliferation of the materials and technologies for weapons? I notice the article doesn't reference waste. That's because its a non issue ever since we here in australia c
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by peterpathname 13y ago
ckem
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by peterpathname 13y ago
Facebook is continuing to prevent the posting of links from West Papua Media Alerts. Supporters say this is a result of lobbying by agents of the Indonesian military.