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6 hours ago, 12gauge82 said:
I do not believe current reactors use highly enriched uranium, somewhere up to about 12%, that term is normally used when describing material for atomic weapons.
The whole point is that U235 occurs naturally as part of Uranium at a percentage of 0.7%, U238 being the other 99.3%.
In order to bring U235 up to useable levels for civilian purposes, the method uses the same equipment to bring U235 up to military purposes, you just feed it back through an extra few times, not disimilar to multiple distilled alcohol. U235 decay also produces plutonium as a by product wich is also military capable.
Nuclear weapons use high grade U235 to minimise the weapon size.
Low grade nuclear weapons can work with 20% U235, even lower down to 12% could be made but the issue is the size of the device.
Reactors can "runaway" with 3-4% U235 (civilian grade).
MSR's lower the risk of nuclear accidents in multiple ways over "conventional" reactors.
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7 hours ago, manthing said:
And every now and again we are told of things that shouldn't exist in the universe because they don't follow our understanding of physics.
Maybe we just don't fully understand everything that physics has to show us. 🤷🏻♂️
Things that shouldn't exist? Don't follow the high school level of physics dumbed down so it can be "understood"?
The problem is that like other things.... people are locked into a narrative or paradigm and fail to look, much less understand, and those who do are often excommucated because they don't agree with the "concensus".
Well Galileo was right, the earth is a ball and orbits the sun
Einstein was correct E=mc2
Robitaillie is correct... the sun is a liquid/semi-sold
Vogt was right... the sun micro-novas on a 12,000 yearly basis
Davidson is right... the universe is Electro-magnetic and dark matter doesn't exist
Bought and paid for follow the narritive/consensus scientists are wrong about other things as well such as :-
Climate change & global warming & CO2
COVID virus
Fusion on earth
mRNA vaccines
to name a few
4 hours ago, ditchman said:i believe the ion drive already excists..............basically (im led to understand) it is an electric charge fired thro mecury vapour.....i think NASA are doing experiments with it...it produces a very small ammount of thrust but in space it would be used for probes on long journys as the acceleration would be the time factor...
Yes, the ion drive already exists but as noted is simple well understood physics.
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47 minutes ago, McSpredder said:
Almost thirty years ago somebody told me: "Nuclear fusion is the energy source of the future, and always will be".
What is it predicted to cost? When Calder Hall opened we were told that electricity would soon be too cheap to meter, but I still get bills every month.
Is there an estimated date when fusion power stations might be up and running, and coupled to the grid? Might the inhabitants of East Anglia still be muttering "Norfolk in use" in a hundred years time?
The current generation of Nuclear (Fission) reactors are as efficent as they can be (using between 5-10% of fuel loaded into them), and most governments are still going down this route, but more complicated and safer, ramping up the price massively.
Lately a lot has been said about off shore wind asking for cfd strike price rates to be lifted form the £47 per MWH mark to £70ish (2012 prices), Hinkley was set previously at £92.50 (2012 prices)and is rumoured to be asking for £150 per MWH (2012 prices)by the time it comes into operation in 2028, it's build cost having gone from £18billion to £32 billion.
Rolls Royce modular reactors are just smaller versions of these (but developed from the Navy reactors line) and really most of the development is to work out how to make the future Navy reactors better, only providing the next generation of modular civilian reactors as almost an after thought.
Top end global private investment (and some governments such as China) is going into (Modular) Molten Salt Reactors (MSR's) which were abondoned in the 60's by the USA as they did not have a military purpose (they do not require the high enrichment of Uranium235 that current reactors use - so no enriched bomb material and no plutonium), even though they are inherently safer (not pressurised and cannot runaway) and more efficent (use between 80% and 100%) of the fuel loaded into them. As a bonus, they can also use fuel from other decay sequences such as the Thorium line, of which there is thousands of years of supplies on the planet and spent material from current reactors.
Fusion is a boon doggle as our cousins across the Atlantic would say.
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5 hours ago, 12gauge82 said:
I don't think you can predict the future, all sorts of inventions could materialise. It may be some way off but it could well be possible without your list of requirements.
It's not my list of conditions, it's physics......
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3 hours ago, amateur said:
Nuclear fusion has worked quite a few times on Earth. The first time being "Mike" in 1952.
The major problem is controlling it.
Nuclear fusion "worked" after setting off a fission bomb "primer" to duplicate the temperatures and pressures inside the sun's core for a few milliseconds, allowing "fusion" to work for a further few milli-seconds.
Not only did they not have control, they confirmed that they required sun core conditions to release a substantial portion of the "fusion" energy.
5 hours ago, old'un said:There are lots of things from the past that were said to-be impossible.
And there plenty that still are... We are all subject to the laws of physics....
2 hours ago, Gordon R said:Bit like the "Green" taxes.
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12 minutes ago, 12gauge82 said:
Where there's a will there's a way.
Im sure they'll crack it at some point, the only question is when.
Unless they can duplicate the sun's core temperature, pressure, magnetic fields, gravity etc on earth, it ain't going to work.
18 minutes ago, ditchman said:so why is everybody spending billions on it ?...if that is the case ?
Because they have spent billions and have no wish to explain that it is not possible to commercialise.... scientists and engineers being fully funded for their entire careers..... on the promise of achieving the holy grail.....
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12 minutes ago, dabbers said:
so were ****** then
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Fusion does not work on earth for more than a few milliseconds even a labratory scale (even with massive inputs) as it cannot keep going as we have the wrong elemental forms, wrong pressures and wrong temperatures.
The Sun is not a gaseous plasma, except above its surface, below this, all the hydrogen is a form of liquid semi solid, called liquid metallic hydrogen, the fusion happens in the layers where hydrogen is in it's liquid metallic form, not gaseous plasma which we are trying to use on Earth in fusion reactors..
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And therefore also owns Lyavale Express....
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33 minutes ago, Vince Green said:
We already know Trump is on the list but he will just brush it aside like he does with everything else
Fake news, it's a conspiracy etc
rumour has it that Trump apparently went once, never again and thereafter banned Epstein from staying in or using any of his hotels... tells you everything you need to know.
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My Khan/Revo 410 multi choke is definitely Mobil Chokes - I went for extended Brileys.
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On 15/12/2023 at 11:12, Mice! said:
Like I said IF THEY HAVE LIGHTS, I see people every day leaving work with a tiny little bike light, so small and weak it's not really visible, and our place is like wacky races with a thousand or so finishing shift at the same time, I wear hi vis just crossing the road to the car park, and generally come out ten minutes late deliberately to let the idiots get-away.
Any pedestrians or cyclists getting killed by cars is tragic, but there are a lot of options these days to make yourself very visible, when I'm on the lanes I'm normally going very reasonably with main beams on, because a red deer jumping out won't be lit up!
Some of us do carry decent lights, I generally carry 1 of 3 of the following when in the dark:
Nitecore MH12S - 1800lumen - diffuse beam
Chinese XHP70 torch - 2000 lumen - diffuse beam to spotlight beam roughly 12ft at 50 yards.
Chinese XHP70 headlight - 2000lumen - diffuse beam
All more than capable at making my presence known!
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Time for BASC to nationally advocate for every bird (and mammal) relying on General License provisions or similar to be put onto the Game list and therefore only the 'breeding' season needs to be covered by general licence.
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CSJ Command Performance CP21 if he is active (working 3 days a week), CP18 if he is not.
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Saxa Fine Sea salt as the ammo!
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2 hours ago, Rim Fire said:
you was saying 😆😅😅😅🤣🤣
Already Exploiting Israel Attacks to Bolster War in Ukraine: ISW
BY ELLIE COOK ON 10/8/23 AT 12:39 PM EDTPauseUnmuteCurrent Time 0:09/Duration 1:02Loaded: 81.77%QualityFullscreenHow Ukraine Is 'Neutralizing' Russia's Biggest AdvantageShareShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on FlipboardShare via EmailCommentsRussia is already wielding Palestinian militant attacks on Israel as a weapon to try to erode Western backing for Kyiv and distract the West's attention from Moscow's war in Ukraine, according to a new assessment.
"The Kremlin is already and will likely continue to exploit the Hamas attacks in Israel to advance several information operations intended to reduce US and Western support and attention to Ukraine," the Washington-based Institute for the Study
As with computer data, keep reading the **** and people will keep spouting it.
You quoted a Neocon journalist , quoting a Neocon think tank, hypothisizing about wet dreams and trying to spin the Russia bad and responsible for everything narrative.
Russia and Israel have friendly relations even given their differences and the USA in the middle trying to separate them.
Unlike the West, Russia does not stab it's friends in the back.
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1 hour ago, Rim Fire said:
This will have something to do with the Russians causing a problem in the middle east making the rest of the world take there eye of Ukraine
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2 hours ago, joejoe said:
There always seems to be plenty of derelict factories and brown field sites but no one wants to build in those areas. It should be a priority to use that land first but all the new building go on farm land.
So you would be happy with a house built on cyanide, asbestos, arsenic, heavy metals contaminated soil and for your family to suffer from the effects?
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Bad contacts......
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4 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:
Laziness?
Laziness is the wrong word, it is more correctly (assuming no complications) looking to be effortless.
Many people use up vast reserves of mental energy by trying to use will power to solve an issue rather than address the underlying issues... i.e. "go on a diet" for 6 weeks until they reach a target but then go back to the same routine as before and end up even heavier.
What is needed is a change in lifestyle where you don't go back to the smae routine but that requires effort (Including mental reprogramming), however for £50 to £5,000 you can have someone give you Botox to a gastric band and "instantly" you are cured..... - no effort just money
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Forgotten Weapons has one in action.
As it is inertia action, heavier cartridges may not solve anything and may lead to reliability issues being worse.
It might even be worth trying lighter loads.....
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If your shotgun won't cycle with HV 32g loads, it needs a full strip down and a good cleaning........
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7 minutes ago, Acerforestry said:
You are right about eastern block, according to a video I saw on bitchute a few days back the president of Belarus whom I'm pretty sure has been vilified as a monster, a tyrant - actually tried to protect his people from a lot of the disastrous covid policies that ruined economies and more, elsewhere, (video footage to prove) refusing to cooperate with the global trend. Hence the character assasination
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