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Regressing Western civilization dusting off the husks of their former nuclear disasters as they can no longer build new facilities from a lost age of technology.It's like they haven't learned anything from Fukushima. Or is it because they want to go out in a bang?
One of its reactors, Unit 2, suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 in what remains the most significant nuclear accident in US history.
Nuclear power reactors of the LWR type were initially designed for a lifetime of 40 years. More than that and you had issues with micro-cracks in the reactor making continued operation unsafe. This happened due to neutron embrittlement of the metal. But today in Russia and the US and other places they found out a way to fix this. You heat the nuclear reactor at high temperature and the micro-cracks go away. The procedure is heating the reactor via thermal annealing, and then they X-ray it to see if there are any cracks left. This increases the lifetime of the reactor by 10-20 years and can be repeated multiple times. Typically they extend the reactor lifetime from 40 to 60 years on the first pass, but some say it is possible to do it until 80 years with two passes.Regressing Western civilization dusting off the husks of their former nuclear disasters as they can no longer build new facilities from a lost age of technology.
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They act like there exist this mythical group of undecided voters who hasn't yet made up their minds about Trump circa November 2024.Poll shows Kamala leading Trump +3 in Iowa. Trump won Iowa in 2020 by 8 points.
In the Foundation books by Asimov written back in the 1950s, the Empire's loss of nuclear science and regression to reliance on "tech men" who only knows how to maintain them, was used as a big plot point in showing the empire's gradual but irreversible collapse.Regressing Western civilization dusting off the husks of their former nuclear disasters as they can no longer build new facilities from a lost age of technology.
One of its reactors, Unit 2, suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 in what remains the most significant nuclear accident in US history.
It's so fitting Z rhymes me with Xi.... Lol
Unless you come from a country that pronounces it Zed, but I digress.It's so fitting Z rhymes me with Xi.... Lol
About 23% of Malaysian population is of Han Chinese ancestry
How are they treated in Malaysia?
How are they treated in Malaysia?
"After iPhones, Indonesia also bans sales of Google Pixel phones
Indonesia banned the sales of Google Pixel phones just days after it did the same with iPhone 16 devices. The reason remains the same – the company failed to provide 40% local content, so its units will be blocked from selling in the country."
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was she the anti china indian girl based in taiwan? Curious..
Indonesia banned the sales of Google Pixel phones just days after it did the same with iPhone 16 devices. The reason remains the same – the company failed to provide 40% local content, so its units will be blocked from selling in the country."
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was she the anti china indian girl based in taiwan? Curious..