Rakonat
@Rakonat@lemmy.world
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
That’s not a point in favor of why they coexist. The military is going to fund uranium mining one way or the other, given the potency of nuclear weapons as a deterrence, as well as their own militarized applications of nuclear reactors powering aircraft carriers.
The only valid argument for why military planning influenced civilian nuclear power because the military also tested and decided on nuclear power for various applications because it was efficient, reliable and had long term viability with minimal space investment. But even the military came to the conclusion it wanted nuclear power where it could get independent of wanting nuclear weapons.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
There is no correlation between nuclear weapons production and nuclear power generation. If anything they compete for the same raw materials. They were developed in the same era because that’s when we discovered how to harness fission.
Also depleted uranium is not spent fuel. Depleted uranium is the byproduct of enriching uranium to weapons grade. Given the natural ratios of u238 to u235, there’s an abundance of it from refining nuclear weapons hence why some weapons and armor utilize it.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
I know enough to know that if you’re worried about pollution from Nuclear then you should be worried about all the waste products in production of solar panels which can be extremely toxic. And that if you’re specifically talking about the amount of radiation a megawatt reactor will produce in it’s life time you should never venture anywhere close to a coal burning plant because the amount of radioactive material they let loose into the atmosphere is orders of magnitudes greater than you could get from a uranium reactor, with thorium reactors being predicted and shown in small scale testing to have significantly less dangerous byproducts left over. With several theories and proposed designs for fusion and thorium reactors that could recycle spent fuel and further reduce the amount of high level waste a facility would have at the end of it’s life cycle, because unlike all other forms of energy generation, the nuclear facilities contain and keep their waste products on site for decades and only transfer it off site during decommissioning.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
This excuse doesn’t make any sense. This myth also needs to die. You can’t get weapons grade materials from fission reactors, and you certainly aren’t converting spent fuel into weapons. The process of refining weapons grade uranium or synthesizing plutonium have nothing to do with energy producing reactors
Uranium was endorsed because it was easier to create a reactor with and didn’t have to deal with the corrosive issue that metallurgy of the early nuclear age into the 50s couldn’t really handle economically.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
It’s a lot simpler than the majority of humanity reverting to pre-industrial lifestyles.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
Tell me you don’t know anything about nuclear energy without saying you don’t know anything about nuclear energy.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 weeks ago:
Problem is Ubisoft games are so shit now days it’s not even worth the effort to pirate them.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 weeks ago:
2 points cause we lived a couple blocks from the library so we never felt the need to own a dictionary or encyclopedia. Though really like 1.5 since my sister did have a CD from world book program that was like an encyclopedia for kids
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 5 weeks ago:
Why should I dump 60usd plus into a multiplayer focused game I’ll maybe get to play 4 hours a week during prime times that is going to shrivel up and die in 2 years time when the next big thing comes out?
Or I can play all these games enjoy, have passionate modding communities adding to the game for free on top of me picking the entire thing up for maybe 20usd on sale if not less.
- Comment on Canada's tariffs to remain despite Trump postponing tariffs on many imports from Canada for a month 1 month ago:
As an American, good. Make sure policy makers understand even threats have consequences and anyone not working in good faith will not be treated with the same good faith. It will cause problems and hurt here but that’s what happens when you elect a foreign asset conman to take charge.
- Comment on When even the weather report reminds you of her 1 month ago:
I should call her…
- Comment on Bioware Is "Downsizing" As It Transitions To Mass Effect 5 2 months ago:
Squeeze me? Bacon powder? Mass effect 5? Where was 4? Anyone who says Andromeda I will install Windows vista on your personal computer.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 3 months ago:
That’s called dysentery.
- Comment on Emiy 5 months ago:
Noel sounds like no l. So Emily without an l is Emiy
- Comment on More trustworthy than what's currently on the road 6 months ago:
Don’t trust it, it got Lindsay Lohan on drugs!