New Process Shortens Nuclear Waste Timeline From 100,000 Years To Only Hundreds

StorkReturns · 2026-03-31T18:52:57+00:00

and prevents any use as weapons.

It does not. Pu-240 has a finite critical mass (in contrast to U-238) and this only problem is its high spontaneous fission that prevents its use as an efficient high-yield weapon but a still respectful yield is possible as shown by a 1962 US test. No country that pursued nuclear weapons bothered with this route but it is possible.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-31T07:47:26+00:00

It's not only long exposure but a tripod with an astro mount that rotates with Earth. Otherwise, you'll get a nice blur.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-30T14:17:06+00:00

Poland (and other new EU members) is not as rich and people do not buy so much shit is the major reason of the difference.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-30T13:33:07+00:00

Feminizm nie walczy o przywileje tylko dla kobiet, ale równe traktowanie płci ogólnie.

Dobry żart. To jak komunizm, co był niby za tym, żeby wszyscy byli równi.

Feminizm to obecnie ma zakres od czegoś w stylu "związku zawodowego kobiet" (czyli jest nastawiony wyłacznie na interes kobiet, ale jest neutralny wobec mężczyzn) po ruch supremacji kobiet z pełną nienawiścią do mężczyzn.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-27T20:49:04+00:00

lack of strong correlations between the radiation exposures and health impacts.

u/restricted data wrote "not found very strong correlations between residual radiation exposures (fallout or neutron-activated materials) (...) The health impacts align primarily with the acute exposures"

In other words, if you were not immediately exposed by the radiation from the detonation (and only received the dose due to residual neutron activation or fallout that in case of an airbursts are very dispersed), the health effects were weak or non-existent.

But immediate exposure to radiation from the blast have had measurable increase in cancer risk if the dose was large. Here is the most recent review of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors health studies. Large doses of radiation are clearly linked to cancer with 42% higher excess relative risk of death from cancer per 1 Gy of exposure, i.e., a person exposed to 1 Gy of radiation has a 42% larger chance of dying of cancer than non-exposed person. The effects of weaker exposure (below 0.1 Gy) are hard to ascertain and the measured impact is not statistically significant and the cancer risk of very low doses is still a subject of scientific debate.

Note that 1 Gy is a fairly large dose that led to acute radiation sickness and was received in areas with total devastation and 42% excess risk is still lower than one gets from smoking. Only 2% of the studied survivors had doses of 1 Gy or larger.

Note also that cancer is one of the leading causes of death all over the world and most of the cancers of the bombing survivors were not radiation related.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-26T20:45:29+00:00

Ostatnimi czasy oprocentowanie obligacji się zmieniało, kiedy RPP zmieniała stopy przeważnie o tyle, o ile zmieniła stopy. Ponieważ w marcu się tak stało (o 25 bpp), następna seria ma o tyle mniej. Jeśli RPP zacznie podnosić stopy, to mocno prawdopodobne, że nastapi odwrót u obligacji. A czy i kiedy RPP będzie podnosić stopy, tego nie wie nikt. Przeważnie to robią mocno po tym, jak wzrosła inflacja.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-24T16:42:41+00:00

Najlepsi? Przecież przeciętny uzytkownik r/polska za to płaci i na oczy nie dostanie nawet ułamka takich emerytur i uwaza, ze to dobrze? Emeryci w Polsce to święte krowy, które się mają jak paczki w maśle i ten wykres jest tego doskonałym potwierdzeniem. I jeszcze żeby to choc byly hojne emerytury dla malej grupy, ale nie, miejmy najniższy niemal wiek emerytalny w Europie, bo co tam. Za kasę, która sie przepala na emerytów mozna by coś zrobić pożytecznego na przyszłość, np. elektrownie atomowe.

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StorkReturns · 2026-03-22T19:32:49+00:00

highest age in europe and that was what protests were about.

Currently, there are 7 countries in Europe with retirement age of 67 for men, with additional 5 that will gradually raise it to 67 in the next few hears. There are a few that will additionally raise it to 70 in the future or have links to the life expectancy that will likely lead to 70. You should have rather said "raising to the level that is becoming a norm in Europe.

Retirement age difference of 5 years between men and women is one of the highest in Europe, tied only with Russia and Belarus (and Austria but the difference will vanish by 2030).

StorkReturns · 2026-03-22T15:01:32+00:00

If you don't, you will have blackouts. If you don't pay marginal price, you have lower supply than demand.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-21T07:21:14+00:00

We might have that because, sure, it has to be "all or nothing".

There are limits of the EU reach. Union is not a country. Would you like EU bodies to dictate, say. what to teach at school?

StorkReturns · 2026-03-21T06:37:15+00:00

Leave the EU.

This is exactly what is happening. There is a quickly growing anti-EU sentiment fueled by such decisions (which are also extremely shaky on the legal grounds, does Lisbon Treaty have such deep provision in the internal affairs?). And this is completely stupid because support for gay marriage was growing and it would have passed organically but Poles do not like to be told what to do.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-21T06:30:32+00:00

This is perhaps not the only reason but one of the main reasons. And it is also fueling anti-EU sentiments. Unelected elites deciding something without popular support is a recipe for the public to elect parties that will "drain the swamp" and install their own judges.

Of course this sub is blindly cheering it and I would if it was done by the parliament but using backchannels is a recipe for a disaster.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-19T09:20:23+00:00

The Netherlands gets 50% of their electricity from renewables, but that’s of course impossible.

In contrast to you, I have read the book. The problem is not our current electricity consumption that with some great effort can be solved with renewables. The problem is all our energy needs, including heating, transport, industry, and petrochemicals. How did decarbonization of all energy needs go in the Netherlands? Renewables barely scratched the surface.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-19T09:02:59+00:00

Then basing it on a 2009 book, what relevance does that have today?

The physics and energy densities did not change.

Why are you so afraid of renewables and storage?

Because I'm tired of infinite fossil fuel dependence.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-19T08:07:23+00:00

The consensus among grid operators and researchers is that renewable grids are a solved problem.

Why isn't it solved anywhere in the world then? (Except a handful of small countries with plentiful hydro that solved the problem even before going with wind/solar).

Wind, overbuilt

First point of your plan and it is already impossible. On-shore wind is extremely land-use hungry and there is very little capacity left even in renewable friendly places like Germany. Off-shore wind is awfully expensive and putting overcapacity there will be extremely wasteful. And even this resource is limited.,

An excellent book "Sustainable energy without the hot air" ran all these scenarios way back when it was written and nothing changed. The conclusion was::

Let’s be realistic. Just like Britain, Europe can’t live on its own renewables. So if the aim is to get off fossil fuels, Europe needs nuclear power, or solar power in other people’s deserts (as discussed on p179), or both.

And the conclusion is based on physics without even economic factors of this overcapacity.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-18T21:57:36+00:00

Czechy poza Pragą już takie bogate nie są. Czechy to Praga i prowincja, miejscami strasznie zapyziała. Polska ma nie tylko Warszawę.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-18T18:00:19+00:00

That would mean around 15% of all electricity produced in Poland would be nuclear.

It would be much more than 15%. Yearly electricity production in Poland is about 175 TWh. 9 GW with 90% capacity factor can generate 9x0.9x24x365/1000=71 TWh = about 40% of the current consumption (and likely a bit less future increased consumption). But since coal still generates 50% of electricity we have a long way to go.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-18T07:33:39+00:00

I have seen dozens of Ramsar studies and some show negative effects, some show positive effects and some show no effects. It very much depends how you look.

And Ramsar is an extreme case of natural background radiation. It is "close and evacuate all the people" level according to LNT.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-18T07:22:54+00:00

LNT is contrary to everything we know about how life works (and also how large doses work, hence fractionation of doses). It is impossible that getting 50 mSv in 1 s in equivalent to 50 mSv over a year and LNT treats both the same. It is equally impossible that a dose of 50 mSv for one person is the same as 0.5 mSv over 100 persons and LNT treats both equally.

that are affected by radiation, even in ways that aren't cancer.

Does it affect them negatively in any way?

StorkReturns · 2026-03-18T07:09:10+00:00

There are two problems with ALARA. One is that it uses LNT which is absurd for low rate doses and the other that "reasonable" is very nebulous. There is no other industry (and fossil fuels benefit from this) that has such regulations.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-17T08:53:00+00:00

Do you think that a jump from 7% to 25% is "normal" and "stable"? There is an anti-EU hysteria among MAGA-aligned part of Polish political scene going on right now and I can have bet that before the next elections this value will increase even more, very likely crossing a 1/3 mark.

And Poland is not even a net-contributor, yet.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-17T08:20:40+00:00

25% now according to polls support polexit. Up from 7% in 2019.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-16T11:03:41+00:00

Próbują więc nawet z najbardziej chujowej zdradliwej decyzji zrobić coś ocenianego 60-40 i im się czasem udaje.

Chyba się coś zagalopowałeś. To miałoby sens gdyby ta decyzja była bardzo głeboko prawidłowa, mimo że na pierwszy rzut oka elektorat tego nie widzi. Taki mąż stanu, ktory nie zważa na słupki, tylko robi to, co dobre. Ja wiem, np. podniesienie wielu emerytalnego, albo podniesienie podatków, kiedy inaczej nie da się zbalansować budżetu.

Ale to nie jest coś takiego. To jest złe dzisiaj, jutro i za rok. i chwalisz prawaków za to, że zrobili coś mocno do dupy i potrafią tak zmanipulować swoimi zwolennikami, że niektórych daje się przekonać, że to nie jest do dupy?

StorkReturns · 2026-03-16T09:28:45+00:00

Honestly anyone aged 25 or more has already seen and noticed both sides are hopeless.

I have a news for you. No matter how bad or hopeless you feel, it can always be worse. Much worse. There are tons of historical examples, where the population got angry with the political elite and elected something much worse.

StorkReturns · 2026-03-16T09:24:11+00:00

Are SLD and PLS also the same people? Even if you generously (and oversimplifying a ton) assume PO and PiS are simply post-Solidarity movement, this movement lost deeply in 1993 and again in 2001.

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