Comment Re:Green Goalposts. (Score 1) 22
to tens of hundreds of thousands of particles per second
FTFM.
to tens of hundreds of thousands of particles per second
FTFM.
Does it solve for a highly radioactive and dangerous problem plaguing a planet
No. Every fuel campaign of any one reactor releases hundreds of tons of materials of various levels of radioactivity, over 1k isotopes in all, each and every one of them with their own peculiarities of decay. This translates to millions of moles * 6.10^23 nuclei that the technology has to deal with. The cross-sections for most of these are vanishingly small and you need several decay steps per every product of every nuclei to make it non-radioactive.
So, let's say you want to dispose of the load from one reactor in a year, you need beam intensity that is on the order of [ ( 10^7 (moles) *6 * 10^23 (nuclei in a mole) *10 (steps, at least) ]/ [ 10^(-5 to -7) probability of reaction ) * 3^10^7 (seconds in a year) ], or approximately I = 2*10^31 protons/sec. The intensities of research beams are typically on orders of hundreds to tens of hundreds of particles per second. You're off by 20+ orders of magnitude. It is true that for nuclear reactions you need sources in the MeV range, and these can produce higher intensities, but that high? Hardly.
Moreover, the highly radioactive waste isn't usually a problem, because it is short-lived. The problem is the volume of low level radioactive material. The so-called "nuclear waste" is mostly composed of U-8, the unenriched part of the enriched fuel uranium. This is easily separable EXCEPT that your country's elites being VERY AFRAID of other countries with nukes, have put an enormous effort to restrict the re-processing.
So instead people come up with this kind of toy stories.
I don’t care if the beam is inefficient.
If you have to actually pay for it, you'll think otherwise.
Can it generate enough to power at least the part of the beam that feeds it? And can it reprocess anything but a tiny amount?
The answer is very likely "no" to both questions and likely to remain so.
War by the US will come before that. The only real motive to start wars these days is for dictators and wannabies to find "external enemies" to justify their clinging to or trying to capture power in their territories, and the US is now firmly in the second case - a losing wannabe desperate to cling to power. You think the Dubya "don't change dumb horses when crossing a river" example is lost on him?
Or a Mr. Krasnov perhaps?
What can "occur" in the head of an imbecile without an education whose life achievement is raping young girls procured for him by a russian/israeli spy?
From your prescient assessment it would seem that the country formerly known as the USA has boiled down to just two shades of red, USSR-red and ruzzkie-pederation-red.
Congratulations, I guess.
Yes, you are missing something rather obvious.
Literally nobody in Europe will even for a moment think that a xxx.GOV domain hosts anything but stupid trumpistani propaganda, and the thing will be just as popular as the "melania" movie, which isn't tracking even on pornolab.
There's more than enough crap you can read in our native European in all those national and
Yes, in between the studies we get a lot of "AI" slashvertisements.
They used to be called Andersen Consulting, a part of Arthur Andersen.
Go look up why they changed their name.
writing cute prompts and test cases, lol.
Here's basically the same stuff from 5 years ago https://www.nature.com/article...
Also, a link to the study, and not the interpretation of some half-educated journo and his chat-gpt friend is always appreciated.
Greenspan is known for inflating bubbles, not for deflating them, sorry.
The incessant "WoM advertising" campaigns of the last days of the dotcom bubble...
Pepperidge Farm Remembers.
Shit works according to the laws that the representatives you sent in your legislature voted for.
Typically it is how many notes are there that are like the original or somesuch.
I vaguely recall the number was four, but I could be wrong.
Your tune matches this, court awards damages.
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