There's no reason to think the melted core will get that far down, or even burn through the concrete floor, or even leave the reactor vessel in any sort of coherent form. Chernobyl's overheated core just spread through the lower parts of the structure (look for the 'elephant's foot' picture), Three Mile island's core was scraped off the inside of the reactor vessel, having only blued the metal.

'Corium' is basically molten ceramic (The fuel is a uranium-oxide matrix.) It has such poor heat conducting properties that during normal operations, it could be 3000F in the center of a pellet, and 650F on the surface of the cladding- 3/16" away from the center.

President Kennedy was assassinated by communist defector Lee Harvey Oswald, not the CIA.

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Two things. First, the actual misconduct was on the part of Senator Wyden.

Second, the "LOVEINT" issue is misconduct, not an approved NSA action. The people that engage in that are subject to discipline, which generally means they lose their job and security clearance. That has a significant negative impact on their career options.

Maybe you haven't heard, but there are nearly 200 countries in the world, most of them have a military, many host some groups that could be a threat, some countries are actually hostile, and a few aim nuclear weapons at the US or its allies. That makes for a lot of military units, ships, planes, submarines, missiles, and terrorist groups to keep track of. That makes for a lot of radio, radar, satellite, and network traffic to capture and analyze for intelligence, threats, and countermeasures. On top of that you can add concerns about various wars and conflicts that could have an impact of the US and its allies: a war between Japan and China, for example, or China and Taiwan. There is a lot to capture and analyze, and you don't seem to be acknowledging that.

Netflix is breaking the long standing status quo. Last I checked, they accounted for ~30% of ALL of the traffic on the internet. Obviously that is going to skew the metrics, and that is why Netflix is trying to push their own CDN. I do not know the particulars there. IMO, if Netflix expects ISPs to pay for their CDN, they are on drugs.

Why? A lot of people might only get internet, or faster internet anyway, BECAUSE of netflix.

If I were not streaming stuff on Netflix I might very well just use a cellular internet connection and not get cable internet at all. Netflix is helping the ISP's make money, and Netflix should gain some benefit from that fact as a result.

So how exactly is Network Neutrality going to fix the ACTUAL problems we are having instead of the problems we are pretending we have?

It's not. You can't force a company to buy more bandwidth, unless you want to expand Obamacare to mandate ISP's by a "platinum" bandwidth package from back haul providers.

Cogent likes to think of themselves as a pure bandwidth company. No frills bandwidth for a great price. No content, no VoIP, nothing. They have colocation data centers, but that came when they purchased a company for their network.

I've been saying this for ages! Even mentioned this here on slashdot. Peering is peering. They are not degrading performance by configuration, they just let the link get congested. How do any of the proposed net neutrality laws address this issue? Answer is, they don't. To me that means that Net Neutrality laws are about something different than neutrality. More likely with government regulation, it becomes Net Control. With that, increased stiffing and limiting reaction to market dynamics, not improving it.

No, that wasn't NSA spying. It wasn't approved, it was against policy.

That was individual employees engaged in misconduct for which they were disciplined / fired.

You need to look closer.

The most important reason is that 'corium' isn't actually hot enough to burn through the earth like that, nor does it conduct heat all that well, even if any part of it became hot enough.

The integrity of the fuel rods is challenged at 2200F (zircaloy-water reaction, which released the hydrogen that caused the reactor building roofs to blow off on three of the Daichi units.)

Steel melts at about 2600F. Concrete breaks down at about 1800F.

In addition, the fuel is a uranium-oxide mix, a sort of ceramic. This class of material is generally known for poor thermal conductivity. That's why the pellets are the size of a pencil eraser, they need to be small and have a high surface area in order to conduct heat from the center of the pellet- which might be at 3000F in normal operations- to the fuel cladding and into the reactor coolant, which might be around 600F.

Anyway, from what I know about western reactors (it's my line of work, but i'm not a reactor engineer per se), I seriously doubt the fuel would 'burn' through steel or concrete. The fission products escape because of physical destruction to the facility caused by the Tsunami, or because of relief valves that limit reactor coolant system pressure, or primary containment structure pressure.

Chernobyl's release was due to a massive overpressure event that physically broke the reactor vessel. Nothing ever burned through concrete (check out the photos of the 'elephant's foot')

Three Mile Island's core was found in the bottom of the reactor vessel; a small amount of fission products was released by mis-operation of support systems. The integrity of the reactor vessel was never threatened, though the containment building (much larger than Daichi primary containment structures) withstood several hydrogen burns.

Can you point to any instances where it was proven that the US Federal government did that to one of its citizens?

Maybe you could expand upon that a bit. You didn't really say much of anything about intelligence gathering.

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Unless everybody asserting their copyright in court is denounced as "troll", use of the term reveals a bias. A point of view (POV), that objective reporting should not have.

There are exceptions to the doctrine of the fruit of the poisonous tree.

One person a year, that then gets "disciplined," i.e. fired or "resigned."