I’ve had good success with this: If you’re pro-life, you’re anti-death penalty, right? If you’re pro-life, you’re pro pre-natal care for those who can’t afford, right? If you’re pro-life, you’re pro-child nutrition programs, right? If you’re pro-life, you’re pro-heath care for those who can’t afford it, right? Ah, I see. You’re NOT pro-life, just anti-abortion. [...]

Upon contact with water, phospine gas is produced (PH3). This is poisonous, highly flammable, and capable of self ignition if the reaction occurs in the presence of oxygen.

Boxturtle (So once air gets into the tank as sufficient concentration…)

It’s not just a white solid any more. Here’s a link from last Monday’s science, we’re now seeing green goo . I haven’t seen an analysis of the white stuff published and I just checked the Almighty Google. I would GUESS that it’s mainly Strontium phosphide and calcium phosphate. Sr3P2 will make very toxic gasses upon contact [...]

Dunno. The behavior of concrete under these circumstances is being determined at Hanford, it’s never happened anywhere else.

Boxturtle (Thank doG)

Even money says he’ll take written questions and respond with written answers.

Boxturtle (And the written answers will read as if written by a weasel)

Well, they didn’t contain that nuclear excursion very well, did they? And Chernobyl was a power station, not a Plutonium production station and so a lot of the really nasty stuff was never there. And the corium stayed in the buildings, so they can get away with just putting a lid on it. This crap [...]

Flux is the ‘density’ of the neutron radiation. More neutrons, more flux. It’s measured in neutrons per sq cm. Neutron radiation is flux integrated over time. Over 30 years, a reactor will have endured a flux on the order of 10**12 n/sq cm. Ay102 was only spotted because they couldn’t avoid spotting it. I’d suspect [...]

SONGS going away is the best news in the Nuke front in a long time. Hopefully, people around that new reactor in Georgia are paying attention to this.

Boxturtle (Did you folks sign up to store the fuel rods onsite?)

We have no clue what is currently in the tanks. We know approximately what was originally in the tanks, assuming the government told us the truth and assuming their contractors told the government the truth. But 40 years of intense radiation, heat in the 500F+ degree range, will have changed everything. From a nuclear standpoint, [...]

I wouldn’t assume that ay102 is leaking because it’s the only one with that chemical mix. All the tanks are hot (heat hot, though radioactive hot too) and they all have Pu production byproducts including Phosphoric acid and lots of U23x and Np23x which will generate neutrons and their own heat. The neutrons will weaken [...]

That’s what the boston bombers used as a bombshell. It would have been more effective packed with nuclear waste.

Boxturtle (Fertilizer)

Here’s some data from an FOIA on NYC Occupy.

Snowden interview describing how it was set up is here.

Boxturtle (The safe assumption is that the NSA is doing as they please)

That number came from a project I did where I used to work. We observed customer behavior through focus groups and log files from our test systems. At around 20% false hits, customer satisification dropped and they started griping about sorting through answers. At 30%, most switched back to the old search method. It got [...]

Perhaps this is working: http://cheezburger.com/7577344512

Note to self: Next Monday science, discuss dangers of Phosgene especially during production process.

Boxturtle (I’m not the only one with an evil, functional brain it would seem)

Well, I recommend PGP: http://cryptography.org/getpgp.htm It’s a public/private key based encryption, the algorithm and source code are public and as far as I know the only way to break it is brute force. There used to be a reward offered for breaking it any other way, but it was never claimed. Basically, you generate a [...]

I’m still a fan of pollute their database. Even if EVERYTHING was encrypted, the USG still has “deals” with almost every ISP for the metadata which MUST be in the clear for the ISP to deliver the mail. If everybody used at least two known keywords in every post/email, like Occupy or Cheap pressure cooker, [...]

Aye, and there’s the rub. The government used to drive research, used to build roads, used to do space missions and so on. Ronnies grand plan to have private industry take that over is an abject failure and congress needs to admit that and return their big contributors tax rates to where they were. Boxturtle [...]