Hi Saul,
Another thing I realized I wished I had added as a caveat in last
night's post. There is also the issue of fast versus slow neutrons as
triggers to fission. The role of the moderator is to slow neutrons so
that they can be captured by materials that need slow neutrons to
fission, of whi
Everytime one of these reactors has a problem we hear the refrain:
- "oh that's an old/foreign/crap design which noone makes anymore"
- "the people running the reactor are poor/corrupt/stupid/culturally
different"
- "and this would never happen to any of our other reactors"
the cyn
Jochen and everybody, hi,
I don't know if it has already been covered on this thread, and I
understand that the following comment is not central to the main
theme. But to group Chernobyl with other reactor failures has one
element that is potentially problematic. Chernobyl was a carbon-
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From: "Gillian Densmore"
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group"
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Apocalypse in Japan
in the US the problem isn't just saftey it's NIMBY. (not in my back
yard). I
Everything of consequence is on a fault somewhere.
On 3/16/11 5:31 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
Well not just that but hopefuly it's a time to apreciat the unreal
amount of help asia does for the global economy. That being said
offshoring is a horrible way to run the US economy. It makes it way t
Well not just that but hopefuly it's a time to apreciat the unreal
amount of help asia does for the global economy. That being said
offshoring is a horrible way to run the US economy. It makes it way to
sustible to not just economic problems but natural acts of God! More
work done 'in house' in the
ar-waste dump. We will take your
> waste if you pay for it..
>
> -J.
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largest nuclear-waste dump. We will take your
waste if you pay for it..
-J.
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From: "Gillian Densmore"
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group"
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Apocalypse in Japan
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Hi
Who is going to produce the good and services that Japan is stoping to
manufacture because of the disaster? My probably "raw opinion" is that an
unfortunate event like this one, is the oportunity that US needs to
reactive his economy. ¿Isn't it?
Alfredo C.
2011/3/15 Jochen Fromm
> A str
with all due respect I think it wasn't needed to troll about nuclear
power. It's not perfect. Japan isn't perfect. It's a time to pool
together international relief. What if a freek huricane or tornado hit
new mexico? I'd hope that we'd be seeking aid reguardless of personal
politics.
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