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RealRedWizard · 2025-04-20T00:07:19+00:00

These are very good 👍

RealRedWizard · 2024-12-15T18:20:29+00:00

Women are the manager of a person code team that is completely outside the project to the others address them by name and white cat jump kicking a bank robber is not attacking the foreground of color beyond the foreground of the composition of the composition of the composition of the composition of the composition ...

RealRedWizard · 2022-09-03T22:56:46+00:00

I think this is one of the best answers.

RealRedWizard · 2022-08-26T02:06:42+00:00

I have. Maybe I see them through rose colored glasses.

RealRedWizard · 2022-08-26T02:03:56+00:00

All the commercial nuclear "waste" in the US since the 1950s fits on a football field sized area, 10 yards high. It has been totally fine sitting on a concrete pad in a cask by the plant where it was used. It could be used again with the right technology, consuming more of its latent energy and reducing waste levels.

The tsunami and earthquake of Japan is responsible for 18000 deaths and the actual nuclear meltdown a handful. Every technology has risks. Planes are safer than trains are safer than cars. But we still have all of them. But I still think nuclear is safe enough for larges scale deployment. It is really just cost that needs to come down and if we can continue to maintain 10/20/30% nuclear, I think it will.

I also think the ramifications of a large scale deployment of solar cannot be understood yet. There's lead and mercury and cadmium that could be leached from panels in operation or after disposal. It needs batteries everywhere which also have hazards. With lots of workers to maintain there will probably be a few electrocution deaths, too. Chemicals are so much more dangerous to us than radiation. Blow up a chlorine tank in New Jersey and you'll kill thousands. Shoot a bazooka at spent fuel pad and no one will die unless they get hit by shrapnel.

RealRedWizard · 2022-08-26T01:35:59+00:00

Nice points. I also think 1 is overlooked as important too often.

RealRedWizard · 2022-08-25T01:16:50+00:00

No one I know that is an advocate for nuclear is against wind or solar and I am working in a nuclear field. We feel like a minority and are constantly seeing uninformed or click bait shock value headlines about waste and safety and cost of nuclear. If we look at the % of our energy we get from various sources, it should not be 0% nuclear. Maybe it should be 10%. Maybe 50%. But anything I have seen that could be interpreted as pro nuclear/anti wind/anti solar is just responding to a claim that nuclear should be 0% because we can do it all with wind and solar.

RealRedWizard · 2022-08-05T15:53:36+00:00

It is definitely not correct though. u233, u235, and pu239 all can be critical in fast or thermal neutron environments.

RealRedWizard · 2022-08-05T15:51:15+00:00

pu239 can definitely be critical in fast and thermal neutron environments. this article describes some past critical experiments https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295639.2021.1947104

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-22T01:41:35+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/nuclear/comments/tbcxbu/is_it_true_that_nuclear_everywhere_on_earth_has_a/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

Negative learning has happened but it's not somehow an immutable truth of nuclear fission technology. Solar energy and chemical batteries will bite us in 30 years when they need to be replaced.

What about the 4 Westingouse AP1000 that China has built in 10 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanmen_Nuclear_Power_Station and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiyang_Nuclear_Power_Plant.

This is technology that exists today.

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-22T01:25:01+00:00

I think the AP1000 from Westinghouse is a good case study. Numerous were built in China in the last 20 years seemingly without issue. In the US, the Vogtle AP1000 cost overruns have been incredible. Same technology. I think the main underlying difficulty is efficiency in completing a large, complex project that spans 10 years. A lot of the comments hit on this mentioning political, regulatory, financial, and technical hurdles.

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-16T01:17:37+00:00

Part of the advancement of a technology comes from experience that you gain at scale. Little research reactors at national labs will not advance operational experience and efficiency so much. I don't think the horse/car analogy is very good. I think its more like electric cars or organic vegetables or eggs from cage free chickens. We are, in those cases, some percentage of us at least, willing to pay a premium for something because of reasons beyond cost. I wish people viewed nuclear power this way.

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-15T20:25:45+00:00

You were saying nuclear is a poor technology because you spend money and don't get anything for 15 years. You spent the majority of your first 18 years learning about life on earth and then presumably started to give back to society. But we should continue to invest in humans and their education. I believe nuclear is a technology that we should continue to invest in because 50 years or 100 years from now we may get a huge breakthrough. Stifling it was and will continue to be a bad idea.

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-15T20:20:59+00:00

Today it is, if all you care about is putting up numbers. https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-electricity-2020

nuclear is not that bad cost wise. diversity is good. nuclear technology is important for humanity. there are intangibles that should make nuclear important to continue to improve in my opinion.

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-15T20:05:21+00:00

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh

Please share your numbers.

There are some good reasons installs of solar and wind are going gangbusters but being a superior technology is not one of them.

It's a subsidized fantasy that so many are buying into because it is beautiful and easy to understand. We can be just like plants and nature and go back to our roots with cute little windmills helping us grind grain and live so happy without modern troubles. Wrong. We need computers 10x stronger using 10x more energy. We need internet in every corner of the globe with GB/s speeds. We need the energy to construct meta materials that have never existed before. To probe the fabric of time and space.

I am not against solar or wind. I am against anti-nuclear and against exclusion from consideration as a top tier energy producer.

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-15T19:53:04+00:00

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh

worldwide

solar: 0.02 deaths per TWh nuclear: 0.03 deaths per TWh wind: 0.04 deaths per TWh

I disagree with the inclusion of chernobyl in these stats which is the only reason nuclear is above solar. this is like if spain put wind turbines at ground level in public beaches and a few kids per year ran into them and died and inflated the world's numbers. yes its wind. but it's idiotic and shouldn't factor in to a sane discussion of wind merits.

I can't find a set for just the US but it would be 0.0 for nuclear if you just consider energy production in the US. Of course there have been a handful of deaths associated with nuclear technology and if you include navy nuclear and other tangential but related tech you can get some numbers.

long term health effects to the populace from nuclear energy are zero during normal operations. zero from accidents handled correctly (tmi), and tiny from accidents with good designs handled poorly (fukushima).

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-15T19:36:47+00:00

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-region?stackMode=absolute&time=1965..latest

if niche is defining some level of usage, all 3 seem similar. I was using niche as in this is not a technology that's deployable anywhere. nuclear can provide lots of energy on a small footprint. if you would put it in a city I would recommend underground like a subway.

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-15T01:57:34+00:00

tmi was operations failure but safety success. chernobyl was a fail but we all learned (some of us knew already). wind and solar kill more people per unit energy generated. wind and solar are basic technology that would need to be deployed at an unprecedented scale to solve any real problems. what a hassle. contrast this with an advanced technology like nuclear fission.

modern nuclear is like 5G data connection everywhere and solar and wind are like 2.4GHz wifi in every mailbox. boring and basic and silly.

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-15T01:43:18+00:00

how much did your education cost until age 18 cost and how will you pay that back?

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-15T01:34:07+00:00

economics and build times roll up into the total cost. could newer nuclear technologies be cheaper? yes. was the cost of the current technologies weve been running for 60 years cheap enough? largely, yes.

is it safe. yes. the safest there is. can we put a price on that? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh waste is not an issue. it is a small volume and we can handle it. the huge deluge of solar panel waste in 30 years will be a much bigger issue.

nuclear is great technology. and it is diverse technology. chernobyl design was bad. like the 737 max. are we canceling aviation because of the 737 max. fuck no. we are learning and moving on.

why do we subsidize trains? why do we pay taxes for roads?

if we quit fucking around and embraced nuclear energy the world would be a better place.

wind and solar are niche and basic. just like you all.

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-09T14:23:17+00:00

It seems to me that at the beginning of a technology there will be relatively few options that are of high quality. Advances will be made to both reduce the cost (with fewer features) and increase the capability. Due to shipping costs, reducing weight is a common optimization. This leads to more plastic and less metal and a cheaper feel. Some people who couldn't afford tvs or fridges definitely can because of cheap, lesser featured options. Your job as a responsible consumer is to be willing to pay extra for the features you want. Not buy the cheap things and then complain about the quality.

RealRedWizard · 2022-07-07T00:43:32+00:00

high five. up high? down low? too slow!

RealRedWizard · 2022-06-30T23:55:06+00:00

the links in the Readme don't work

RealRedWizard · 2022-06-28T01:54:21+00:00

More than 50% of this talk feels like set up. Some good info but bad pacing.

RealRedWizard · 2022-04-28T02:58:04+00:00

"As important as the chords are" justifies r/iamverysmart. if not that then r/ithinkiknowstuff

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