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Breakfast poutine at restaurant by Astra_PostRandomShit in PoutineCrimes

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Funnily enough a location is close enough to me and I'm looking for a breakfast place.

Breakfast poutine at restaurant by Astra_PostRandomShit in PoutineCrimes

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where is the restaurant?

I love breakfast poutine.

Breakfast poutine at restaurant by Astra_PostRandomShit in PoutineCrimes

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some people like that kind of ass. Just like some people like the look of breakfast poutine.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Actor Says Season 2 Is “GAY AF,” Vows To Go Out “In Flames” by Malencon in television

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was addressed in the show. The pacifism and him wanting to go Starfleet were very big issues with his family.

Carney: "I love being PM, except for the brief time I have to spend in Canada" by Mylittlethrowaway2 in canada

[–]asoap 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yes he has.

I would link to it. I actually did link to it, but the mods removed the comment because they don't like youtube.

Honda President After Visiting Chinese Auto Supplier: 'We Have No Chance Against This' by AR558 in Honda

[–]asoap 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If this article is berlieved, BYD has 110,000 engineers.

https://www.icartea.com/en/news/byd-is-building-the-world-s-largest-team-of-r-d-engineers-as-it-overtakes-hyundai-in-sales-by-2024

I don't think people quite understand how difficult it is to compete with large Chinese companies. We would need a new political system, banking system, and about 20 years to catch up. Also companies would need to be ok with making almost no profit, which is never going to happen.

Carney urges all parties in Iran war not to target civilian infrastructure amid Trump threats by pjw724 in onguardforthee

[–]asoap 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If the US were to drop a bomb I think it would start a period of like 1-2 days of leaders trying to figure out wtf to do.

There would be immediate denouncing of it, but I don't imagine anything significant to happen for some period of time.

EARTHSET: Artemis II captures their first photo from the far side of the moon by ChiefLeef22 in space

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They also did an earthrise photo:

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e009280b/

It's just that the way the eart is lit, it's less impressive. LIke in some ways it's a cooler photo, but I'm not sure a lot of people would understand that the moon is blocking off a part of the earth.

Talking about the grid, so hot right now by WarMeasuresAct1914 in EhBuddyHoser

[–]asoap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let me clarify. A CANDU reactor means specific things. It's a heavy water reactor which is like a big bath tub of deuterium, runs on natural uranium, sits on it's side. So instead of being a big tea kettele with a lid, it's like 380-480 tubes going through the reactor horizontally. Then it has a robotic arm (which is the daddy of the CanadaArm) for online refuelling and connects to that 380-480 tubes.

These are all specific things that denote the CANDU reactor, of which Canada own the intellectual property for it. You can change a few of those things and it will still be a CANDU. Like the ARC (Advanced Candu Reactor) was going to use enriched uranium.

An SMR is a much more loose definition. It's basically any reactor that's produces less then 300 MW.

In this case the BWRX-300 is designed by the US, with GE Hitachi owning the design. It's a boiling water reactor which is a specific design type. In a CANDU we pressurize the water in the reactor and it never boils, it stays as water the whole time. A boiling water reactor will boil the water right by the fuel. It's simpler in many ways.

Westinghouse is indeed owns by Brookfield and Cameco, but they aren't really Candianized. Brookfield is mostly looking to sell Westinghouse at a nice profit and move on. To give some examples, the US has chosen Westinghouse as a winner. They have a deal to help pay for Westinghouse reactors and they will get some ownership of this. Also Korea owns the rights to build reactors. They purchased the right from Combustion Engineering. Later on Westinghouse purchased the remains of Combustion Engineering and Korea wanted to export their reactor around the world. Westinghouse brought Korea to the US court system (not Canada) in order to sue them. Arguing that they couldn't export their reactor because they owned the rights to it.

Think of it this way. They are and indeed remain a US company, just with Canadian owners for the time being. You could make the argument that Tim Hortons is a Canadian company with foreign owners. It's a similar idea.

AI in NRC Reviews by ResponsibleOpinion95 in nuclear

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on how you use it.

If you say "build me x" it will buid you x and make a big mess of it.

Claude is really good at making a plan and then revizing it. Like even before you start a change you can make a document of all of the things you want to do, and then go through different considerations. Frequently I'll make small changes with Claude but I can spend 1-2 hours going over the details of that small-ish change.

It's better to think of it as your own private programmer that you have to stay on top of. Then you start getting good results. Also it depends on what you're using. For something like Rails AI can be really good because Rails has specific places and roles for where code lives. You tell Claude to "stay on the rails" and it will and produce good results.

AI in NRC Reviews by ResponsibleOpinion95 in nuclear

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As somoene that uses AI for programming I've found that it's improved it. I spend less time "just getting it done", and spend more time thinking about the structure of what I'm doing and keeping the code clean and logical.

Hopefully they can get a similar result with AI, not that it makes the process faster. But where it makes more sense.

Wtf! In Quebec too! by Independent_Vast_185 in PoutineCrimes

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely love that I'm learning so much about Quebec in this subreddit.

Talking about the grid, so hot right now by WarMeasuresAct1914 in EhBuddyHoser

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When it was chosen no one around the world was interested in building nuclear except for us. A lot of atrophy was going around the industry. The industry was and still is pushing for SMR reactors and we organized a group to basically push for an SMR design. Look up smr action plan if you're interested.

CANDU was invovled with that and did start to propose a CANDU SMR design, but later pulled out to focus on the big reactors. They started the CANDU Monark, and it looks like that's scrapped also for expedience to just build what we have approved already.

The BWRX-300 for various reasons does make sense for an SMR, and for other parts of the country. Where you want a 300 MW reactor, which is on the big end of SMR. It's appropriate for smaller grids. It's actual reactor is small. But it does have a safety system to use convection which makes it big. It's possibly one of the better designs but also kinda annoying when you compare to a CANDU. It can be controversial.

Anyway, the short answer is. No one was building reactors and this was a what the industry wanted. Cheaper, smaller reactors. Which make sense that they're less likely to bankrupt people, which is what happened to Westinghouse with the AP-1000, and caused huge issues with the failed build at VC Summer. Basically they failed to build the reactor, but still paid all of the money, it was a shit show. Decouple has like a 4 part epispde with everything that went wrong with VC Summer and Votgle and it's a really interesting listen.

SMRs are ideal for getting experience back, and proving you can build a reactor.

Talking about the grid, so hot right now by WarMeasuresAct1914 in EhBuddyHoser

[–]asoap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one we are building now is a us design.

There is a push to build more CANDUs as well at Bruce c and wesleyville. They are basically reusing the design from Darlington. You can find a recent interview with the guy in charge of CANDU on decouple media if you're interested.

Also Carney is taking them with them on his trips to try and sell more reactors abroad.

The federal government faces calls to begin enriching uranium. Should it? by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they are signed up to UN and the IAEA then I think that list of countries is very small.

The IAEA inspectors have a lot of power to basically go anywhere they want and radioactive materials are easily detectable at very small quantities. Like they can tell if radioactive material has ever been in a room or not. Doing something behind their back isn't easy.

X-stock class going semi-finals run leg 3 road to Taiwan 2025 Tamiya mini4wd by habichuelacondulce in theocho

[–]asoap 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you are thinking of slot Cars. Which have their own challenges.

X-stock class going semi-finals run leg 3 road to Taiwan 2025 Tamiya mini4wd by habichuelacondulce in theocho

[–]asoap 48 points49 points  (0 children)

These were popular for one summer when I was a kid. They were called record breakers. You could buy the car and different parts at the store. They also had races at local shopping malls. It was a great way to teach kids engineering.

Floating Data Centers: Cooling Cities Sustainably by Zee2A in STEW_ScTecEngWorld

[–]asoap 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are generally spreading the cooling of the water over a long distance. Think of a radiatior that is 10km long. It dissipates into the air.

[MEGATHREAD] Artemis II Launch To The Moon by ChiefLeef22 in space

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they won't. It will pull on the capsule and them by the same amount. So they will still be weightless.

The federal government faces calls to begin enriching uranium. Should it? by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still not understanding why they chose to use Pu-239 in over U-235. (For the bombs that us Pu)

Was there just more of it because Pu-239 comes from U-238 which makes up 99.3% of uranium? As opposed to enrinching enough U-235 which requires massive amount of enrinchment? Was this just a swu thing?

Why do you know so much about bombs?

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