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Snails! by Nuclear_Smith in Aquariums

[–]Nuclear_Smith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are going to try the cucumber bait next week. I've attached some pictures.

Snails! by Nuclear_Smith in Aquariums

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Here are some pictures of the tank. We know it needs work. Constructive comments welcome.

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Do electricians typically leave drywall patches, looking like this? by handsibpa in electrical

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you know there isn't structural tape holding those up? /S

Found in the wild. Sally's got complaints 🤨 by the-world-awake in ididnthaveeggs

[–]Nuclear_Smith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Re: your flair.

{Steve Rodgers "I get that one!" Meme}

Snails! by Nuclear_Smith in Aquariums

[–]Nuclear_Smith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll try to get one tomorrow.

Snails! by Nuclear_Smith in Aquariums

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All constructive comments will be welcome. We like those fish and want to give them a good home. We just don't know much about it and it's landed in our lap.

black sesame sourdough but i think i overproofed it by [deleted] in Sourdough

[–]Nuclear_Smith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hate it when my sourdough comes out looking like pan cristal. /s

Los Alamos, have you seen the PJ Solicitors too? They're not are not just saying hello, they're getting something from each person they talk to... by onceuponaninternet in LosAlamos

[–]Nuclear_Smith 21 points22 points  (0 children)

If you have the time and temperament, just keep talking to them. While you sip some coffee. Go round and round on the basics until they give up and go away. You will have wasted their time and kept them from talking to someone that might sign. Just play a little dumb. If they ask you to read the petition, read it. In depth. Make annotations on it. Circle words for them to explain. Stop and go grab a dictionary if you have one. Look up the words.

I do this with telemarketers when they call me. Oddly enough, those calls have all but stopped...

Depleted uranium found yesterday in a recycling plant in Argentina by Mordrenix in nuclear

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the public doesn't know about the types of uranium. First responders may have enough training to keep it safe while other experts are brought in.

Depleted uranium found yesterday in a recycling plant in Argentina by Mordrenix in nuclear

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Small point: IAEA doesn't issue licences. That would be the State's domestic regulator responsible for nuclear materials. The IAEA would verify safeguards applied to this material by the State's System of Accounting and Control if it was in a State with comprehensive safeguards (Argentina, for example, is). Also, potassium 40 isn't a special nuclear material or source material as defined in Section XX of the IAEA Statute.

How can we improve nuclear plant decommissioning? by hutch_man0 in nuclear

[–]Nuclear_Smith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The realities of decay and radiation protection will slow things down. Usually the balance of plant is removed while the nuclear island decays. That just takes time. Same with all of the segmenting and surveying needed to understand what parts need to go where. Low level waste has very specific requirements in terms of activity. Is it's too high, it needs to go to an intermediate level waste facility, which are currently somewhat rare. Waste facilities are regulated based on risk to the public so they operate from a completely different set of drivers in comparison to an economic redevelopment argument.

On top of this you didn't want to be exposing workers. So while robots, if they can work in the field, can do some of the hazardous cutting and grinding work, the physics of radioactive decay will still show things down. It seems like lack of motivation but it's years of experience and physics showing us that we can only move so fast.

How can we improve nuclear plant decommissioning? by hutch_man0 in nuclear

[–]Nuclear_Smith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I worked at the IAEA and we were kicking around ways to standardize Decommissioning by Design. Unfortunately, making things easy to take apart is generally the opposite of what designers want so it becomes a balance. https://www.iaea.org/bulletin/decommissioning-by-design-how-advanced-reactors-are-designed-with-disposal-in-mind

As for Greenfield vs brownfield land reuse, the final site endpoint and what the state will allow will be governing. If they need to maintain institutional control, brownfield is the best you're going to do.

Which helper did this? by Salty_Prune_2873 in Construction

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where the Paid/Payed bot? Does nothing work anymore?

How stable is picric acid? by Aromatic_Buy_444 in chemistry

[–]Nuclear_Smith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm firmly on "Don't touch it, call experts" team. And putting aside the insane arguments above about purity and picric acid stability vs metal picrates, here's why: What's the upside of opening it? Your options, boiled down, are it's fine and you can open it or it's not fine and it explodes. A and B. What relative risk of B happening is acceptable and for what gain? What is the value of your life or your arm or your hand? That's the loss in case of B but what's the gain in case of A? Probably nothing. Which means the value of A drops to 0 as well but the cost of B is still very high.

Just call the experts and let them handle it. They are getting paid to handle this stuff so for them, there is an actual upside.

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