For FUCK sake LEAVE us ALONE. Your supposed to be the countries foundation, not our overloads - fuck off.

Perhaps if intelligence services weren't gathering so much domestic intelligence on the taxpayers who fund them and, if citizens could rely on public oversights with enough teeth to ensure that the intelligence powers were being used ethically then there wouldn't be a motivation for leaks.

However there isn't and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I'm curious how you arrive at this figure. You are implying that a Nuclear reactor is utilized for 99% of its lifetime which can't be true simply because of the Availability of the plant when it is being refueled and serviced pushes that figure well below 99%.

How do you arrive at a 99% utilization rate for a Nuclear Reactor?

Ok, this looks like a stereotype to me.

So if renewable research isn't moving fast enough how can there be an imminent solution. From what I see there is plenty of renewable technology available and that, even in its infancy it is disrupting the status quo. When a disruptive new player comes to an established market it is not inconceivable for them to use a number of disinformation tactics to maintain their profit margins, regardless of the consequences.

This is the very point of the article, that people can't process abstract threats like radionuclide poisoning of the food chain and bio-accumulation of these toxic elements.

It is a common myth that it would fix carbon emissions, however the real discussion is it trades a carbon externality for a radio isotope externality. Peer reviewed science on the subject shows that there are many issues that have to be addressed before a net energy return is provided and that means it may not ween us of carbon based energy as many people expect.

In essence, we would just have another problem to deal with.

The problem here is money. The energy establishment is the most established player and they really don't have 'the future of humanity' listed as a profitability goal - because long term vision is rare. Nuclear could be good if the solutions to its problems were implemented. Notice I say 'implemented' because the problems have been solved however the costs to implement them into reactor designs and roll them out is deemed 'not cost effective'. Again long term vision is rare.

I'm not anti-nuclear either, but if you want a long term solution you have to look at these industries as a whole and solve the issues, not just shroud them with doubt the way the coal industry does.

It seems that politicians jobs now are to launch into ridiculous amounts of rhetoric, deceive the population in a way that makes us feel like idiots when we finally figure out whatever agenda was being rolled out and then high five each other when it passes.

I'm from a Westminster system country too, however it was never designed for a two party system and the original purpose of evolving a nations laws seems to have been subverted to shackling the population of the entire western world to debt and a new form of slavery.

Yes, that's true. Usually it will pan out like this. A 3000 page bill is presented to the House. Some Urgent! reason is invented for a fast track through the house before it can be properly evaluated and they pass it. You HAVE to read it to understand what it is then you have to analyze it for what it will do. It is a lot of work but it has to be done.

Politician don't take people seriously if they don't get letters making sure the politicians know what you expect of them and that it will cost them votes if they force is on people. Apathy is and always has been the enemy of western political stability and even Franklin himself said of the constitution 'for all its flaws' IIRC would not protect the US from slipping into despotism. The TPP sure looks like pretty good way to start a slide.

People died to earn the rights we have now and its sad to see people just pissing them away as if they are nothing because people don't understand how to use them, how they came to be or why they're important. You can't blame people because it was achieved by carefully de-educating the population and aggregating the sources of news into a few manageable mega-outlets.

The audacity of these people to chase the very legal core of all western nations makes me wonder where your morals must be to participate in such an activity, which is really just a robbery of rights for capital. That's not Capitalism any more, it's Corporatism dressed in its finest deceptive cowardice come to steal the common good and make it a slave, for life.

Will we get any protection from this domestic enemy? No - you'll be labelled as it.

Big Mother!

It's true and you are right however you should remember that the way to judge a society is by how they treat their most despised. I suspect that these event are the cracks that show before everything falls apart for him as natural justice does what formal justice won't.

The availability of the reactor, the impact of increased energetic inputs to produce the fuel are limited to $600 and reactor disposal cost would be would be a good addition especially considering the 'reactor economic lifetime' is there.

I can think of two interesting modifications. The first would be to show the energetic costs as input vs output that factors the above but also allows for increasing the reactor lifetime beyond 100 years. That way you could explore things like 'what is the impact on cost if we built the entire reactor underground'?

The second would be to use it on different reactor technologies so you can ask, 'how much energy in, cost of an underground IFR that is disposed of with the reactor in place', what are the static costs of setting up burner reprocessing underground vs Thorium reactors that have the very nasty Thallium 233 (IIRC) as a spent fuel product. Of course factoring the availability of U-238 as a fuel would be interesting too.

Enrichment is factored however it excludes the cost impact of CFC114 on atmospheric oxygen production which is quite a serious issue vs using Ultracentrifuge technology that eliminates that issue.

My 2 cents

Totally agree, I did it a few years ago to try it out however once I calculated electricity costs and having to buy and update asics all the time, it didn't look like a game you could profit from.

Thanks!

If you are less experienced you are trading your time to develop skills, if you are more experienced you are trading your skills for more time.

I think that it is one of the things that corporate America can do to ensure that American people always conduct a negotiation with a disadvantage in the U.S.

When I was in a similar situation I changed the game by saying I would be happy to work for 4 days a weeks at that rate and would accept the role on that basis. I didn't care what the answer was because I was already employed and the extra time I would simply dedicate to additional income streams.

Your negotiation is even more compelling when both parties get what they want, it's called a win-win situation and the one time when it isn't a cliche.

Don't lie, just say 'it's confidential'. A reason will be challenged, to challenge confidentiality an inquiry first has to broach the reason for the confidentiality before they get to the answer. The answer to why it is confidential is 'it's confidential and I can't breach confidentiality agreements'. See no lying required.

Every single IT person should be negotiating salaries UP, all the time. There should never be downward salary pressure on skilled I.T staff. Please take note of this people starting in IT, you may not be very skilled now however as you get older you will be. Remember that any agism you encounter or practice is effectively a cap on your salary in the future.

IT work is hard, don't forget that. Make employers pay for either your energy OR your skills.