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Comment Re:Green Goalposts. (Score 2) 22

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.

Comment Re:An index fund? (Score 1) 15

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?

Comment Re:Am I missing something here? (Score 1) 53

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 .eu domains as it is.

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