You need to be modded up, good sir or madame.

In fact it's the opposite problem: spent fuel pools were ok, but the folks at Fukushima didn't know it and wasted a lot of time and man power trying to correct a non-existent problem. But your point is still good. Without cooling even the spent fuel pool will boil away after awhile (days? weeks?) and the bare fuel could melt down.

Let's not forget about the increase in terrorism and drug smuggling that's sure to follow the invention of star trek transporters. We really should be thinking and planning for this problem while there's still time.

Uranium reserves are so big that there's no need even for breeder reactor for centuries. We have lots of time to work on this. There's also thorium in the meanwhile.

Min/maxing is half the fun of D&D. The challenge is to create a game that is fun with unbalanced characters. Other systems have succeeded in that.

According to the gov, 33% total efficiency for coal. I don't know what part of that is turbine efficiency. Only natural gas is significantly better.

If you're too stupid to realize that nobody 100% separates fantasy from reality, then you have the typical intelligence of a slashdotter.

Only in the sense that it would take too long and they aren't required to know assembly.

Right. Before they wrote compilers, the concept was considered possibly a hard AI problem. Now they have you write a compiler as an undergrad.

Exactly.

You could just ask them.

It wouldn't be the first stupid thing they've done. Not all these boys aced the SATs, that's for sure.

Please. That origin story was put there by Satan to test our faith. You don't really believe it was all made up, do you?

Even for a computer?

Who am I to decide? I'm a human with a functioning brain. Quit bitching about me using it and learn to use yours.