Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On 05/07/2024 15:34, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 5/07/2024 10:18 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 05/07/2024 12:36, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 5/07/2024 8:08 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 05/07/2024 10:38, Martin Brown wrote:

On 04/07/2024 17:18, Jethro_uk wrote:

On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:11:54 +0000, Smolley wrote:

On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:55:59 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:

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Well volcanoes are how most of the Uranium and thorium got to where it is today.

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Whatever makes you think that?
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There are (expensive) glassification processes that can render it more or less inert for long term storage underground.

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The Australian CSIRO's Synroc process is one of them.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synroc
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"Synroc was chosen in April 2005 for a multimillion-dollar "demonstration" contract to eliminate 5 t (5.5 short tons) of plutonium-contaminated waste at British Nuclear Fuel's Sellafield plant, on the northwest coast of England. "
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Snag is the best places to put it geologically in the UK are not the same as the places where it will most likely be dumped (under Sellafield, formerly Winscale formerly Calder Hall - cunningly renamed after each mammoth cockup/MFU).
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They could build a pyramid and stuff it in that., It would be safe.

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In your ever-so-well-informed opinion.

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Yes. In my ever so well informed opinion.
The pyramids have been up and stable longer than ten half lives of any radioactive isotope crated in a reactor'

 The oldest pyramid was completed around 2650 BC so it been up for about 4,600 years.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived_fission_product
 The seven long lived fission products have half-lives ranging from 211,000 years ( Technicium-99) to 15.7 million year (Iodine-199).
 

Completely wrong The oldest fiisson products are uranium and thorium with half lives in billions of years
Iodine 199 et al are so un radioactive you could bathe in them and be just fine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-lived_fission_product
 So you've made yet another ludicrously false claim.

No you habve. No one except you is in the slightest bit concerned about
Inert materials like that. You are more at danger from lead poisoning, which lasts FOREVER

We in the UK should give thanks to Cockcroft's follies. We were damn lucky that his somewhat wacky stack filter idea prevented massive fallout when the carbon moderator caught fire back in 1957. Radioactive discharge would have been ~20x worse without them.
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Not even as bad as Chernobyl, which was the same without the filters and 100 times bigger

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Not remotely similar, as you would have been able to work out of you had read the link below.
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Almost identical, in that a carbon fire in an unenclosed reactor spread nuclear material around. I know ALL about BOTH accidents . I read ALL the literature
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And more importantly, I understood it.

 Or think you did. The problem in the in the Chernobyl reactors wasn't just a carbon fire - while they did use some graphite moderator elements, and these did catch on fire - but a control failure which lead to a much higher fission rate than the cooling system could cope with, generating enough steam to blown the structure apart.
 

Reay you must be a relative of  Commander KInsey
*plonk*
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