It's not like they are not going to finish it. All the heavy forgings are done, it's just a big assembly project now. You can check for yourself what Ontarians pay for their primarily nuclear power. I live in another province but it is nonetheless quite reasonable. OPG just finished some extensive refurbs on their conventional reactor fleet on budget and on schedule so they have a proven track record at this sort of thing.

Also, this project comes at a time where, with the urgent need to diversify our trading partners and contribute to the zero carbon economy, pretty much everyone who matters is enthusiastically onside. The Ontario government, the federal government, the official opposition, the First Nations, and most all the other provinces as well who are both participating in the building of a future supply chain and also eyeing new reactors of their own as well. I'm glad to see us working to become a leader in this technology again. Hopefully in a couple decades there will be Canadian made SMRs springing up everywhere.

Depends how often you look I guess. I've had multiple kernel updates in a single week on some boxes recently.

Mmmk. Popularity is also a logical goal for people selling cars, or anything really.

My hovercraft is full of eels.

They will be happy to sell reactors to democracies as well.

I did not say it is a bad thing, just that this is hardly unique to MS. My Ubuntu 24.04 server for instance had ~70 patches two weeks ago and 100 more last week, and it does not even have a GUI. I fully expect similar numbers this week, and this has been going on for a while. But yes, hopefully even the most obscure bugs in all the popular existing code will eventually be found and then the pace of discovery will slow down and we will all get to enjoy exceptionally secure software going forward. Cough.

Don't know, but I use to make jokes about how often Windows needed a reboot. If I apply every Linux kernel patch when it comes out now it makes MS look good.

My goto example is China, which has built more reactors in the last 15 years than the rest of the world combined.

It's funny seeing the same tactics used against solar and wind that has been used against nuclear for so many decades. Different era, same kind of people.

"For very large 'Generation III+' reactors, production of the pressure vessel requires, or is best undertaken by, forging presses of about 140-150 MN (14-15,000 tonnes) capacity which accept hot steel ingots of 500-600 tonnes. These are not common, and individual large presses do not have high throughput – about four pressure vessels per year appears to be common at present, fitted in with other work, though the potential is greater than this.

Reactor vendors prefer large forgings to be integral, as single products, but for large units split forgings are welded together. These welds then need checking through the life of the plant, and the fewer that are required in fabrication the better. Also, whereas Generation II reactors might have required some 2000 tonnes of forgings, the largest modern designs require about twice this amount. For example, Westinghouse has said that the minimum requirement for making the largest AP1000 components is a 15,000 tonne press taking 350 tonne ingots.

The very heavy forging capacity in operation today is in Japan (Japan Steel Works), China (China First Heavy Industries, China Erzhong, Shanghai Electric), South Korea (Doosan, Taewoong), France (Le Creusot), and Russia (OMZ Izhora, Atommash, Petrozavodskmash, ZiO-Podolsk).

New capacity is being built by these and other companies in Japan, China, South Korea, Czech Republic and Russia.

New capacity is planned in India (Larsen & Toubro, Bharat Heavy Electricals, Bharat Forge Ltd). In China the Harbin Boiler Co. and SEC subsidiary SENPE are increasing capacity.

Nothing in North America currently approaches these enterprises.* The changed position of the USA is remarkable. In the 1940s it manufactured over 2700 Liberty ships, each 10,800 tonne DWT – possibly pioneering modular construction at that scale (average construction time was 42 days in the shipyard). In the 1970s it had a substantial heavy infrastructure, but today China, Japan, South Korea, India, Europe and Russia are all well ahead of it. Steelmaker ArcelorMittal, based in Luxembourg, now owns the US company which built most US reactor pressure vessels in the 1970s-1980s.

*In the 1970s, requirements were more modest: both US Steel and Bethlehem Steel had 8000 tonne presses and could handle 300 tonne ingots. US forging capacity has not been significantly upgraded since, partly due to lack of integration with steel mills and melt shops to supply the hot steel as 600-tonne ingots."

https://world-nuclear.org/info...

OPG has run the numbers and disagrees. On the bright side their SMR construction continues along on time so you will have some real examples to learn from soon.

https://www.opg.com/projects-s...

Perhaps you live somewhere warm. Try going somewhere cold - perhaps a walk in freezer or a hockey arena - where you can see your breath. Walk around, talk, cough, watch your breath. Then try the same thing with a face covering, whether it is an N95 or a bandana you will find those big moist clouds around you are much smaller, in which case you will have learned what children here figure out the first time mom puts a scarf on them and sends them to school in the winter.

The whole point of masks is to protect others, so they probably just think you are dumb.

Half hearted support because he is doing it because he is forced to, not because he wants too. As if he would give a shit if his daughter was not sick. LOL. Same with all the rest of the billionaires researching longevity. They are absolutely not doing it out of magnanimity for the human race, they are doing it for 101% selfish reasons. Do you really think they want the poors to live longer? They think they are special, and IMO it's not necessarily bad if they fail, because they are not. Medical research is great, but we really, really don't want or need the world they envision.

Having suffered loss myself those things would add to the pain but still pale next to the loss. I suppose a case could be made that sitting in your private jet grieving over the loss of a loved one is better than doing the same in your mud hut, but at least it brings them closer. Granted, if you offered me a billion dollars or my loved one back I'd take the latter every time. I'm not sure your typical psychopathic billionaire would do the same.

Oh life is far from fair for sure, but any equalizers are better than none at all. Gotta take what you can get.

As if.

Sad for his daughter, would have been better if it was Bill himself, but at least these stories illustrate the one way in which those douchebag billionaires are the same as everyone else. To the rest of the human race his daughter's life is worth exactly the same as a starving child in Sudan. I'm sure he and his friends think otherwise, but none of the rest of the world does. In any case there are some things all the money in the world can't fix, and that occasionally brings these people down to the same level as the rest of us. They still suffer and grieve like everyone else, and that is a good thing.