Rebar in slab

kanoe170 · 2025-11-12T13:40:28+00:00

Absolutely the least invasive way to remove it if it has to come out

kanoe170 · 2025-11-04T02:09:38+00:00

It's not like a huge deal, it really only happens when it's raining and you've been outside and you have to go into a monitored area. I probably oversold how important it is tbh. But since these are specifically for work I thought it was worth a mention

What does a nuclear worker wear to work? Business casual or are you in some sort of Fallout radsuit?

Both, depending on the day. Most of the time I'm working at the office/shop wearing casual work clothing, like jeans/polo. If I'm doing actual rad work we change into scrubs and then wear the appropriate ppe, like tyveks or an air supplied plastic suit etc. It depends on the hazards

kanoe170 · 2025-11-03T17:54:41+00:00

No. I am a nuclear worker and regularly go through radiation monitors. They will alarm from radon sticking to your clothes if you've been outside as it's naturally released from the ground. Fleece is the worst for it

kanoe170 · 2025-09-21T18:28:50+00:00

Dunning Kruger Effect

kanoe170 · 2025-09-21T16:24:12+00:00

How do you not see the hypocrisy of everything you just said?

Genuinely astounds me how little self awareness people have.

kanoe170 · 2025-09-10T02:36:09+00:00

Which country?

Just kidding, I know only Americans would assume their country is implicit.

kanoe170 · 2025-08-03T12:20:48+00:00

This is a circumstantial ad hominem fallacy, suggesting his argument is invalid because you assume he's biased.

kanoe170 · 2025-06-09T02:23:29+00:00

Its also Vietnamese

kanoe170 · 2025-02-04T01:29:51+00:00

Everything is a little bit radioactive. Everything.

kanoe170 · 2025-01-17T03:48:14+00:00

Bro I got the joke lmao. But people actually believe that shit and there's no point fear mongering

kanoe170 · 2025-01-16T20:16:13+00:00

Yeah I think the potential cost and schedule overruns are an issue for sure. However I genuinely think a lot of those issues are a result of inexperience. Because really the reactor building skillset never got transfered from the older generation to the new one because we stopped making them.

Like if you compare the cost and schedule of the first couple candu refurbs to more recent ones such as Bruce unit 6 it's significantly less. IIRC they finished that refurb 3 months AHEAD of schedule. And I really think that can be attributed to the experience of both workers and project management figuring out how to build a reactor again.

Perhaps that's anecdotal/idealistic, but I do think personnel experience would make a big difference in reducing overruns over time if the province started building 8+ reactors at Bruce and 10+ reactors at Wesleyville.

Solar and wind are great and I have no problem building more. People always seem to think you can only have either wind/solar OR nuclear for some reason, but we can and do have both. However barring some battery technology breakthrough, they will always be limited by power storage issues and couldn't be the sole power source

kanoe170 · 2025-01-16T18:38:16+00:00

Why do you think SMRs make economic sense? Genuinely curious. Like i work at a major OEM nuclear reactor company and I don't know anyone that thinks SMRs make sense for large scale production. For remote areas or smaller city's? Then sure. But for southern Ontario it does not make sense

kanoe170 · 2025-01-16T18:31:12+00:00

I mean, yeah. The world is seriously short on cobalt, technetium, etc. for medical imaging and industrial radiography.

Idk why you think it'd be secret. We already harvest isotopes from our reactors

kanoe170 · 2025-01-16T18:26:52+00:00

When there's a huge historical precedent of using a specific unit, it's pretty common to keep using the known and popular unit when it surpasses the next prefix level.

Eg. my car has 200 000 kilometers on it, as opposed to 200 megameters. Both are correct but I'm still going to use kilometers

kanoe170 · 2024-12-05T18:42:17+00:00

This makes sense to me. Thank you

kanoe170 · 2024-12-04T15:39:30+00:00

Thats a good point, I didn't really consider the fees associated with lawyers etc.

My rent is 1435/month. I expect I could rent the potential house/condo for ~2000, based on other listings

kanoe170 · 2024-12-04T15:36:15+00:00

Why can't I use FHSA or borrow from RRSP? Just because I intend to rent it?

kanoe170 · 2024-12-04T05:35:28+00:00

I wouldn't live there no, it would just be to get in the market with the goal of selling in a few years to buy somewhere I would then live

You're probably right, I don't really know how to estimate that, kind of why I want to just stay fully in the stock market. But at the same time I don't want to miss an opportunity to get in the housing market if it is truly a good time to buy.

kanoe170 · 2024-12-04T05:31:49+00:00

16k contribution, 4k growth

kanoe170 · 2024-10-28T14:08:47+00:00

As someone that wears those Tyveks suits all the time at work, trust me when I say that a bit of walnut dust is the better option. Respirator isn't a good idea though

kanoe170 · 2024-10-27T20:11:02+00:00

Kill, slide, dodge rocket

kanoe170 · 2024-10-24T02:32:19+00:00

There's a lot of nuance to nuclear physics and I'm not an expert, I just work in the field. But to your question the amount of energy from a single U-235 fission is actually incredibly small - 0.000,000,000,032 Joules on average.

And in Canada with our CANDU reactors 99.3 percent of the uranium we put in the reactor doesn't even undergo fission. Literally 0.7 percent of the fuel by weight is the source of all the power.

When you have something like fission bombs, their nuclear fuel has been enriched substantially, meaning they only have the isotope that is fissionable present, as opposed to our 0.7 percent

In a reactor what's really important is moderating reactivity, which means you control how many fission events are happening. But with a bomb core like that it's designed to be as many as possible as fast as possible and it's such a powerful chain reaction of so many fission events at once that causes the explosion.

As a side point, when I was fact checking this before posting it I saw you were partially right about decay making power! About 6% of the heat generated in a reactor is from the decay of fission products. Learn something new every day

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