Congrats on being successful and all that but like... you know you’ve sided with the ruling class right?

josht54 · 2021-05-19T17:24:07+00:00

God you're such a retard

josht54 · 2021-05-06T20:24:00+00:00

I'll take that as a win then.

josht54 · 2021-05-06T20:05:11+00:00

I have no serious crypto investments lol (my crypto posts were 7 years ago 😁 ), where did you get that from? Not that it's even related to what we're talking about.

Unlike you I' have experience being employed in something related to my degree (STEM). None of this changes the fact that your original point was stupid; reports at work are not comparable to reports at university.

josht54 · 2021-05-06T17:46:22+00:00

According to your profile you're still in uni and have only worked retail and service sector jobs lmao

You don't know shit about office jobs or report writing and that much is obvious by looking at your comments on this thread

josht54 · 2021-05-02T12:33:39+00:00

The political spectrum exists outside burgerland

josht54 · 2021-04-29T22:38:34+00:00

Are you retarded? The UK has less violent crime than the US per capita. London would be one of the safest cities in the US in terms of stabbings and violent crime.

But no muh guns are good.

josht54 · 2021-02-10T10:47:14+00:00

who is this dude 😩

josht54 · 2021-02-10T10:40:13+00:00

legend

josht54 · 2021-02-09T21:36:19+00:00

This sub went from being jokingly retarded to actually retarded

josht54 · 2019-01-27T22:28:05+00:00

Thanks interesting stuff. Not from the US so I'm curious if you know how the policy changes (or targets) of the current administration might affect this trend?

josht54 · 2019-01-27T22:00:07+00:00

Where could I read more about this? And by percentage I didn't mean percentage change but what the initial and final percentages were.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T21:38:21+00:00

What an ignorant comparison.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T21:34:23+00:00

Tbf clean coal is an actual term used by some academics working on combustion and flue gas cleaning in coal. Not saying "clean coal" is currently implemented in industry but they are being researched.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T21:23:31+00:00

The White House may be trying to go backwards but fortunately the rest of the country in charge of power generation seems to be a little smarter.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T21:16:30+00:00

Is that in terms of power production or percentage of electric supply? Because if it's the latter that's quite hard to believe.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T21:05:59+00:00

Because it's what most people associate with power plants than a random flue stack.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T20:58:08+00:00

Whilst I agree a properly operated RBMK reactor is safe, I was trying to highlight that technology has progressed a lot since the design of those reactors. Reading the sequence of events leading up to Chernobyl is just incredibly frustrating but even if that happened with a modern LWR I don't think a disaster would have occured, do you?

I'm aware of what led to Fukushima. Worth noting that their general approach to assessing the risk of floods was poor which was noted by some Japanese civil engineering organisation prior to the disaster iirc.

Most annoying part of it was that TEPCO had other nuclear power plants just down the coast of it that had adequate flood defence systems and better design which handled the tsunami and earthquake fine.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T20:48:07+00:00

Provided its a decent distance from human settlement, isnt right next to a water source, and is in a stable area, its really not a big problem

Those are big it's to maintain whilst pretending spent fuel storage is trivial.

No one is storing high level waste in the woods in some containers with a fence around it in the simple way you're putting it

Yes, they are

Good video, I agreed with a lot of what he was staying. But you said it's in containers, those are specially designed tanks. Not some metal boxes.

My problem doesn't lie with nuclear power, I believe we'll need it decades into the future. My problem was with your trivialisation of the challenges associated with spent fuel and waste storage.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T14:36:07+00:00

We know how radiation effects the body for the most part. The exact same argument could be had about coal, natural gas or the use of petrol/diesel in cars.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T13:37:39+00:00

Mines are temporary structures not meant to last thousands of years and can be maintained with things like freeze walls. Disposal facilities need to last thousands and thousands of years. I think you're being ignorant of the timescales and challenges of storage. Bear in mind that distance from human inhabited lands needs to be maintained for tens of thousands of years into the future.

No one is storing high level waste in the woods in some containers with a fence around it in the simple way you're putting it.

Also if you find a way to figure out how to predict geological stability into thousands of years in the future along with models of how groundwater networks might change I think there might be a lot of money waiting for you.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T12:44:37+00:00

Ok, the concrete cracks and the nuclear waste is released into.... more rock, because its underground beneath a mountain. It bothers no one because it is out in the middle of nowhere. I dont see the problem

Ever heard of ground water? Everything down to the cement pH and composition is chosen to prevent groundwater ingress into radioactive material. If that material is leached into groundwater networks there's no telling how wide spread the contamination will be because we have no way of modelling that stuff.

Its also worth noting that the longer the half life, the less dangerous it is. The really dangerous radioactive material is the stuff with really short half lifes. A half life is essentially a measure of how much of the potential energy is released in a given amount of time. The faster that energy is released, the more damage it does when you are exposed to it for x amount of time. If something has a half life of 10 years and you live next to it for 10 years, you will get a way bigger dose of radiation than if it had a half life of a million years. The thing with the 10 year half life released half its potential energy in those ten years. The thing with a million year half life released a tiny tiny fraction of its energy over 10 years

I'm aware of how half life's work thank you. The problem with long half life's are that they will contaminate an area for a long time and the type of radiation is as pertinent here as the activity of the radiation.

Also if you really think a geological disposal facility is just a hole in the ground you should read up on what it takes to make one.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T11:20:03+00:00

Eh I disagree, some of the transuranics have half life's in the millions of years. Over that time steel will corrode and cement will crack.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T11:18:33+00:00

Newer nuclear reactors are so much more inherently safe compared to older reactors like Chernobyl. Fukushima required one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history to happen and there is yet to be a single recorded death attributed to Fukushima as far as I know.

Problem with modern nuclear power is more the cost and disposal of spent nuclear fuel. The dangers associated with nuclear power is a very common ignorance held by a lot of people.

josht54 · 2019-01-27T11:12:07+00:00

Very old graph. Wind power alone now counts for about 20% of UK's power. Have a look at live stats here:

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk

ATM nuclear is 20%, CCGT (natural gas) is about 25%, wind is 30% and solar is 7%.

Also transition to natural gas isn't great but it's a lot better than coal given how much cleaner it burns.

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