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Comment Re:nuclear warheads? (Score 1) 611

by gordon1986 on Monday January 05, 2009 @05:18PM (#26335185) Attached to: Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer?

What does the poster mean by "is not capable of creating nuclear warheads". Does he mean, "does not create by-products or waste that, if refined and combined with additional hardware, could possibly be used to create a nuclear warhead". Do we currently have nuclear power plants that are also capable of producing nuclear warheads (warheads that actually react and go boom and not just spread radioactive waste everywhere)?

He means that the spent fuel cannot be chemically manipulated to produce the correct composition of Plutonium.

We do currently have nuclear power plants in the US which produce weapons grade spent fuel.

Comment Re:Smells like bologna (Score 1, Informative) 611

by gordon1986 on Monday January 05, 2009 @05:16PM (#26335153) Attached to: Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer?

Nuclear warheads require a certain ratio of Pu-239. Plutonium nuclides cannot be separated or enriched in an isotopic manner. (ie: if the spent fuel has 4% Pu-239, 90% Pu-240 and 6% Pu-241, it will always have that composition, you can't enrich it to 50% Pu-239) Therefore, unless the original Uranium fuel has the correct ratio of U-238 to the other nuclides, weapons grade plutonium cannot be crafted from the fuel, at any time.

Software Holds Cell Phone Calls While Driving 452

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @11:07PM from the hang-up-and-drive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Canadian company Aegis Mobility has developed software that detects if a cell phone is moving at 'car' speeds. If so, the software, DriveAssistT, will alert the cellular network, telling it to hold calls and text messages until the drive is over. Calls are not blocked entirely; callers will be notified that the person appears to be driving, but they can still leave an emergency voice mail, which will be sent through immediately."

Comment Re:"good for the economy" my ass.-outsourcing CEO' (Score 1) 1033

by gordon1986 on Saturday May 01, 2004 @02:43PM (#9028855) Attached to: Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs

"How long will it take before those people realize that they have everything they need to start their own company and compete with their former employers?"

Hello?!? How could they compete if they must pay *minumum wage*? "Those people" are doing what all buisnesses do and should do: make money. If the fucked up liberals of the US decide to require employers to waste money on frivolous lawsuits, minimum wage, unemployment insurance, etc, then the employers will simply leave the country. And that is what they are doing.

Try to look at the root of the problem instead of complaining that everything isn't handed to you.

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