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Glow-in-the-dark peaches taste much better than plain old ones.
1 posted on 03/07/2023 2:18:01 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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in 2020 it was reported that the weight of the structure couldn’t be supported by the clay ground...

.. and it was sinking.

This isn’t a big deal when it’s manned, but if something were to happen and it was abandoned the reactor containment will break down after some period.
Not that anyone cares.


2 posted on 03/07/2023 2:22:46 PM PST by Celerity
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Within a few years there will be another Fukushima almost disaster ("almost" as in number of deaths = 0) and the Dims will demand the shut down of all nuclayur plants (typed in my best Bush voice).

Nuclear is great IMHO form a physical science perspective. But it's weak in political science.

3 posted on 03/07/2023 2:26:47 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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I've been listening to a college chemistry course on Audible and one of the chapters was on the process for uranium enrichment. I was blown away to learn that nuclear fuel rods are only enriched to be around 5% U-235 whereas weapons-grade uranium is around 90% U-235. In nature, U-235 is a rare isotope compared to the far more common U-238 and U-235 is more desired because it's more fissile than U-238.

Fascinating process in general, using gas diffusion laws or centrifugal force to separate U-235 UF6 molecules from U-238 variants, aka enrichment.

4 posted on 03/07/2023 2:28:35 PM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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A little bit of radiation is actually good for you, so I’ve heard.


5 posted on 03/07/2023 2:30:20 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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In the 70’s and 80’s we had bumper stickers stating

“Nuclear Power
Friend of the Earth”

Sure did tick off a lot of the Ralph Nadar congregation


6 posted on 03/07/2023 2:36:06 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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Like they used to say at Perry Nuclear, “hell no, we won’t glow!”


14 posted on 03/07/2023 3:05:03 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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Vogtle nuclear reactor Unit 3 has started a nuclear reaction inside the nuclear reactor.


Thankfully the nuclear reaction didn’t start outside of the reactor. That might have been bad.


25 posted on 03/07/2023 4:40:24 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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The US Airforce will be putting one in Eielson AFB in Alaska. There is also a utility that will be installing one as well.
If green freaks actually cared about the environment, they would be all over nuclear power.


26 posted on 03/07/2023 4:50:13 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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IT was probably built with China materials and runs on Windows 10 or 11.


27 posted on 03/07/2023 5:18:06 PM PST by Revel
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Georgia Power announced that the Vogtle nuclear reactor Unit 3 has started a nuclear reaction inside the nuclear reactor.

But did a nuclear reaction happen in the nuclear reactor? /s

34 posted on 03/08/2023 12:41:17 AM PST by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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