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Antigravitas posted:Fuel is the minority of nuclear waste. Not entirely true, most states do not reprocess fuel, especially in the United States where spent fuel is casked dry and stored. France and Russia are the only two that actively recycle spent fuel, even then, a large portion of waste isotopes have uses or can be burned up in reactors. It makes up 3% of waste by mass, but 95% by radioactivity. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Dec 20, 2020 |
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Most nuclear waste is junk like dirty lab coats, robots that have been in hot cells too long and dosimeters that are fully exposed. Low level waste is just that, low level, but it can’t be sent to landfill because if it’s gets incinerated or recycled it can end up in all kinds it really isn’t safe to be.
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The low level waste like that is also gets safe in a relatively short time, its not so hard putting it somewhere and waiting a few tens or years. The stuff thats of concern has time to be safe of hundreds or thousands of years which is why its hard to store somewhere. I would bet that even the low and medium nuclear waste could be made safe by very carefully processing it and seperating out the elements of concern, but this would be incredibly expensive. And as mentioned the "waste" thats being talked aboutt being buried still has a lot of potential use.
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We've all been there: your fire extinguisher is on fire. Well, now there's a solution, with my new Fire Extinguisher Extinguisher, the only product on the market specifically designed to put out flaming fire extinguishers!
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urzaserra256 posted:The low level waste like that is also gets safe in a relatively short time, its not so hard putting it somewhere and waiting a few tens or years. The stuff thats of concern has time to be safe of hundreds or thousands of years which is why its hard to store somewhere. At least the US has a low level waste plan but also because its so cold a low level waste plan is "a garbage dump we pay slightly more attention to incursion/excursion"
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Sirotan posted:Pretty sure it's just a dummy and they've got the motorcycle on a track? Nope: quote:The final part of the chase where the motorcyclist crashes was one magnificent stunt with no dummies. Stuntman Duffy Hambleton rode his police motorcycle full speed into a fallen paint stand, flew over the handlebars, was hit by the airborne motorcycle, landed in the street on his back, and slammed into the crashed car. According to the film's commentary, everyone at the location was stunned, and immediately ran in to ensure Hamilton was alright. According to George Lucas, it turned out Hamilton was perfectly fine, apart from being angry with the people who had run into the shot to check on him. He was worried that they might have ruined the amazing stunt he had just performed by walking into frame.
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qlnktdY9so1r0uzl6.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qlnp2i7TsD1r0uzl6.mp4 ekuNNN fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Dec 20, 2020 |
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Wasabi the J posted:IDK why we're sending it to heavenly bodies when the vast emptiness of space is a much broader target. Way to be loving rude to our interstellar neighbors! Gonna star a galactic war or mutate some poor species with that attitude.
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At what point was this going to end in any other result?
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I mean...they all look demiled, have the pins/tabs already removed, unless the EOD team did that...
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had a drilled out grenade as a kid, it was cool and fun to play with. these are full of mud not RDX.
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Duds or not, it's kinda poo poo to dispose of them in a lake.
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Kith posted:Duds or not, it's kinda poo poo to dispose of them in a lake. Car batteries go in the ocean but grenades don't go in a lake? This is all so confusing!
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Someone had a very disappointing day of explosive fishing.
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Luckily all that snow broke his fall.
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Batterypowered7 posted:Way to be loving rude to our interstellar neighbors! Gonna star a galactic war or mutate some poor species with that attitude. What if some alien species' nuclear waste caused humans on earth?
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Eulogistics posted:What if some alien species' nuclear waste caused humans on earth? Congratulations! You just invented a new denomination of Scientology.. The one I invented involves humanity being created by aliens taking a poo poo.
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The top thread on r/metaldetecting is a guy who dug up a WWI grenade and it blew up on him. https://www.reddit.com/r/metaldetecting/comments/c5wjfl/i_was_detecting_in_a_forest_looking_for_coins_i/ Actually when I went to get the link the top thread is now some guy who found a concrete slab in his backyard that contained human bone and a handgun.
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Wasabi the J posted:IDK why we're sending it to heavenly bodies when the vast emptiness of space is a much broader target. Then the giant ball of radioactive waste will come back in a thousand years. The futurama documentary did an episode about this.
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I've had to do this one when I was in highschool. Ugh. Just get a tow.
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Propaganda Hour posted:I've had to do this one when I was in highschool. Ugh. Just get a tow. Was the car dangling off the side of a cliff in the Himalayas too?
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:The top thread on r/metaldetecting is a guy who dug up a WWI grenade and it blew up on him. https://www.reddit.com/r/metaldetecting/comments/c5wjfl/i_was_detecting_in_a_forest_looking_for_coins_i/
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honda whisperer posted:This was both cool and terrifying. Yeah. Then you think about the flip side of this, like that one golfer whose private jet lost pressure at like 30k and just flew halfway across the US full of dead people until it ran out of fuel. Or that one 747 that had a similar failure and the fighter jets sent to intercept actually saw one of the flight attendants, masked up, trying to get control of the plane before it crashed. Hypoxia's terrifying. (I'm also morbidly compelled by stories of mountaineering accidents, which is another good way to punch your ticket via lack of breathable air.)
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Kith posted:Duds or not, it's kinda poo poo to dispose of them in a lake. Or the Atlantic Ocean off of New Jersey & Delaware...where the Army dumped tons of ordnance after WWI and WWII: Hand grenades? In MY driveway??! https://www.nwitimes.com/news/using-clam-shells-to-pave-driveways-becomes-explosive-issue/article_79156ae6-f456-5318-a25a-ea8d75dd3bc7.html
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kazmeyer posted:Yeah. Then you think about the flip side of this, like that one golfer whose private jet lost pressure at like 30k and just flew halfway across the US full of dead people until it ran out of fuel. Hadn't heard of this story, it's loving gnarly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/199...%20of%20oxygen. The report from the two F-16s that made the third interception/inspection is  wiki article posted:At 1711:26 CDT, the NODAK 32 lead pilot reported, "The target is descending and he is doing multiple aileron rolls, looks like he's out of control...in a severe descent, request an emergency descent to follow target." The TULSA 13 pilot reported, "It's soon to impact the ground; he is in a descending spiral."[1]
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wesleywillis posted:Congratulations! You just invented a new denomination of Scientology.. No, that's a Stanisław Lem story (Eight Voyage from The Star Diaries, IIRC).
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https://twitter.com/kenhrubin/status/1340957230078676995 https://twitter.com/kenhrubin/status/1340960054934007808 
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Doesn't that volcano erupt all the time
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Azhais posted:Doesn't that volcano erupt all the time Technically it's been erupting for decades now, but a slow trickle of lava. It erupted in 2018 and there were 100+ foot lava fountains for four months. It's doing the same thing now.
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Zopotantor posted:No, that's a Stanisław Lem story (Eight Voyage from The Star Diaries, IIRC). Reminds me of Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers. It's the book that Stalker was based on. A character tries to explain the stuff the aliens left behind with this metaphore: quote:A picnic. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. Cars drive off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. In the morning they leave. The animals, birds, and insects that watched in horror through the long night creep out from their hiding places. And what do they see? Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around... Rags, burnt-out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind... And of course, the usual mess—apple cores, candy wrappers, charred remains of the campfire, cans, bottles, somebody’s handkerchief, somebody’s penknife, torn newspapers, coins, faded flowers picked in another meadow.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:The top thread on r/metaldetecting is a guy who dug up a WWI grenade and it blew up on him. https://www.reddit.com/r/metaldetecting/comments/c5wjfl/i_was_detecting_in_a_forest_looking_for_coins_i/ That kind of digging would worry me, explosives remain explosve for really long periods of time. In 2008 a guy in Virginia found a Civil War cannonball, brought it home and proceeded to try to clean it in his driveway. It exploded, killing him. Given the size of WW1 munitions (up to 420mm) and the high dud rate, no loving way would I dig in a WW1 battlefield.
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kazmeyer posted:Yeah. Then you think about the flip side of this, like that one golfer whose private jet lost pressure at like 30k and just flew halfway across the US full of dead people until it ran out of fuel. Or that one 747 that had a similar failure and the fighter jets sent to intercept actually saw one of the flight attendants, masked up, trying to get control of the plane before it crashed. There's a scene in Krakauer's Into Thin Air where just after making it back alive to the lower camp he has a full conversation, complete with direct quotes with someone who, at the exact moment he was having said conversation, was probably nowhere near the camp and actually in extreme distress. He concludes it by saying that the understands intellectually that the conversation could not possibly have happened, yet to this day he retains full memory of it having happened exactly as he outlined.
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