The economic advantage of SMRs is that when you make reactors in a location, the 1st is always more expensive than any following reactors. Just a reality of construction, permits, designs, etc. So if you have 4 reactors in one place, that's pretty nice. They also have the advantage of being able to turn one off for maintenance and then having 2, 3, 4 other reactors in the same vicinity that can pick up the slack for the duration.
As for waste, yeah it's the same problem. But it's important to note that the volume of material is not that big. The entire volume produced by all us nuke energy ever takes up a football field stacked 10 yards high. All told, that's a smaller problem than I ever thought.
I also learned in that interview that after a relatively short period, the aggressive decay is over and you're left with a barrel of waste that isn't actually shooting off radiation very often.
So energy remaining and radioactivity are separate. The isotope that it becomes has a decently long half life, but it might only be a few protons or neutrons away from something really radioactive.
I do believe that the fuel rods count towards that pile of waste. I think the US has laws or rules that make it hard or impossible to recycle these back into the good stuff, but it's very doable. France does it to a high degree.
The energy system we have today does not match the solarpunk future we dream of. If we work towards the right energy system today, we may just have a solarpunk tomorrow
How silly are you looking for? It doesn't get sillier than We Ran Out Of CD Space by PsychoStick... or anything else by psychostick. But there's also Ninja Sex Party, Wolves of Glendale, First of October (listen to Ravioli).
While not outright comedy, there's a humor to Falling for Me by Parker the Bandit and It's Okay to Punch Nazis by Cheap Perfume
If I'm not mistaken sodium ion is better with temperature and durability. The biggest problem is energy density, so they can't compete in any applications where size and weight matter. This leads to their 2nd biggest problem, which is that there's so much production infrastructure for lithium that no one wants to invest in new assemblies for other battery chemistries
Graduates carrying Palestinian flags left the stadium as the comic was being introduced. Duke University’s commencement saw a minor disruption when students protesting the war in Gaza walked out before Jerry Seinfeld spoke....
A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said....
To those from the Western hemisphere, it's always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of the...
I live in New England and I'm gonna guess either the 1700s school house or one of a couple buildings I suspect are log cabins. Those could go back to around 1650
I've never seen it put so well. But yeah, it's super hard for anything nice to actually follow a revolution without outside support.
And there is always outside influence too. That outside influence might make even the best of socialist experiments fail because of embargoes and assassinations. Or maybe the outside influence wants the socialism to succeed, but maybe it has to be their brand of socialism, or else.
G.M. produces the Malibu at a plant in Fairfax, Kan., and will continue to manufacture the car until later this year, when it plans to retool the factory to make a new version of the Chevrolet Bolt, an electric car, and the Cadillac XT4, a luxury S.U.V.
"Too much focus on solutions can separate us from the gravity" what the fuck. All the focus on doom has people saying it's too late to try. Focusing on the solutions is the only thing getting shit done at all
It's important to note that the rates we humans tend to build things is far from linear. A path to the high number listed in the article of 5.5 BT of CDR might like look like 1BT in 2030, 2BT in 2040, 4BT in 2045, and 5.5BT in 2050
We have a system, and we do not have the political will to get rid of that system. Go ahead and build a coalition towards a better system, but until that coalition is tangible, harm reduction is not complicity.
Bruh there are a multitude of issues that the cabinet handles. As much as what's happening in Palestine is abhorrent, there are in fact other important things happening everywhere all the time. If you look at only one single issue, then you are blind to a great many things. And if you neglect the fact that one side would also handle that particular issue with even more bloodlust, then you're just not a serious person.
I'll be sure to save this for when my trans ass is thrown in a gulag by trump and I can show the immigrants in there with me that you thought everything would be same either way.
He isn't trying to kill me. He opposes bans of our medical care. If trans rights ended up on his desk, I think he'd sign it. So yeah, I do like him a lot better than the other candidate who literally wants us dead. The difference is subtle but I would rather be alive and lightly supported instead of dead and hated
The take that struck me the most came towards the end. And it's that when you electrify, not only are you not burning fossil fuels to work your stove, but you're also not burning fossil fuels to power the drilling equipment, to ship the crude oil, to refine it, to pump it to your stove....
Yeah I wish he'd look into agriculture more, there's a lot of cool stuff there, but I think he gets intimidated by a needed learning curve to talking about agriculture
Language changes over time, and that's the new etiquette. Though No Problem tends to feel less compulsory to me and so I feel more genuine saying it. Enjoy the world as it changes, because it'll change just as much if you don't enjoy it
I’m swimming-with-mermaids delighted to reveal the cover of my next solarpunk mystery novel, Missing Mermaid. Right now I’m deciding how best to arrange the text on the cover. Do you recommend option one (author name on her tail) or option two (author name and title both up in the sky)?...
Okay well I think your just wrong. Hell, even the law thinks your wrong. Using art as reference can be dangerous if your work is not meaningfully different and you pass it off as your own. Scott Cawthon got into trouble a few years back after one of his hired artists used a fanart model of a version of one or the characters as reference for a promotional piece.
Well, it makes sense how that has happened. The revolution in Russia had many groups working together to kill the Tsar. Once he’s dead, the most militant and authoritarian is going to have the easiest time saying “I’m in charge, no objections right?”
And they did object sometimes, and the tanks turned around when they did.
The soviets spent their entire existence trying to make all countries interested in socialism fall under their thumb. And the USA consequently spent a lot of time trying to make those socialist countries fail. Nothing happened in a vacuum
Lefty Nemesis ( i.redd.it )
This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years ( www.tomshardware.com )
TCL demonstrates 4K gaming monitor with a 1,000 Hz refresh rate ( www.tomshardware.com )
What is cake day called on Lemmy?
Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors ( blog.ucsusa.org )
A realistic understanding of their costs and risks is critical....
envisioning a bottom up energy system - Volts with David Roberts ( www.volts.wtf )
The energy system we have today does not match the solarpunk future we dream of. If we work towards the right energy system today, we may just have a solarpunk tomorrow
The Offspring, The Beastie Boys, Van Halen w/DLR, and the B52s. Are there other bands that rock, but are often silly/goofy and funny?
new copy pasta dropped ( lemmy.ml )
rule of cool ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Nathan Pyle is always right
First sodium-ion battery storage station at grid level opens with cells that can be charged in 12 minutes ( www.notebookcheck.net )
Students Storm Out Of Jerry Seinfeld's Commencement Speech At Duke ( nz.news.yahoo.com )
Graduates carrying Palestinian flags left the stadium as the comic was being introduced. Duke University’s commencement saw a minor disruption when students protesting the war in Gaza walked out before Jerry Seinfeld spoke....
First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies ( www.reuters.com )
A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said....
Palestinian resistance Rick and Morty ( lemmy.ml )
How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?
To those from the Western hemisphere, it's always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of the...
Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?
G.M. Will Retire the Chevrolet Malibu to Make More Electric Cars | The gasoline-powered Malibu was the last sedan sold by Chevrolet, the General Motors brand, in the United States. ( www.nytimes.com )
G.M. produces the Malibu at a plant in Fairfax, Kan., and will continue to manufacture the car until later this year, when it plans to retool the factory to make a new version of the Chevrolet Bolt, an electric car, and the Cadillac XT4, a luxury S.U.V.
5 Reasons for Environmentalists to Stop Blaming "Doom & Gloom" Narratives ( felixderosen.substack.com )
Somewhat contrarian take, but despite the click-baity title it does have some good points.
A Majority of Democratic Voters Believe Israel Is Committing Genocide ( zeteo.com )
Mehdi’s Memo on the results of our new poll on Gaza and Iran
Why are 80% of the elements metallic? I get that they ARE, but WHY?
CO2 removal ‘gap’ shows countries ‘lack progress’ for 1.5C warming limit ( www.carbonbrief.org )
The paper is here
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Two panel manga page....
Harm Reduction Rule ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
There are no ethical choices under first-past-the-post voting. We must instead make a decision that reduces the most harm.
The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2023 ( deadline.com )
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The energy transition's 5 supervillains and 5 superheroes - Volts Podcast ( www.volts.wtf )
The take that struck me the most came towards the end. And it's that when you electrify, not only are you not burning fossil fuels to work your stove, but you're also not burning fossil fuels to power the drilling equipment, to ship the crude oil, to refine it, to pump it to your stove....
You make the line go up or get fired ( ttrpg.network )
What happened to "You're welcome!" as a response to "Thank You"? It's not even included in the canned answers on an apple watch. Have we as a society abandoned it?
I hear "No problem" far more often.
US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports ( www.reuters.com )
The decline of the Simpsons 📉 ( jlai.lu )
FCC votes to restore net neutrality ( www.theverge.com )
working on cover for my next solarpunk novel ( slrpnk.net )
I’m swimming-with-mermaids delighted to reveal the cover of my next solarpunk mystery novel, Missing Mermaid. Right now I’m deciding how best to arrange the text on the cover. Do you recommend option one (author name on her tail) or option two (author name and title both up in the sky)?...
FTC votes to ban noncompete clauses that bar employees from working for competitors ( www.cnbc.com )
ESA says members won’t support any plan for libraries to preserve games online ( www.gamedeveloper.com )
Climate Doom Is Out. ‘Apocalyptic Optimism’ Is In. ( www.nytimes.com )
How do people fall for believing in socialism, despite its downfalls?
After reading in economic systems and how have they been applied, I started realising how impossible it is to have a good true socialist country.