StrangeSox

I got to "Tucker Max" and stopped reading. That told me all I needed to know: arrogant, loud-mouthed but insecure douchebag who needs to treat women poorly in order to justify his small dick.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 17, 2011 -> 02:36 PM) How the hell are there any death related to biomass and peat? Industrial accidents would be my guess.

I dunno, I'm trying to find the source. FWIW the official reports from UNSCEAR and the IAEA have 56 direct deaths and about 4,000 cancer deaths. But a million? Even Greenpeace's reports are something like 250k. And we all know how generally terrible and ignorant Greenpeace is when it comes to nuclear power. edit: I personally think the UN/IAEA/WHO number is laughably low.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 17, 2011 -> 01:53 PM) Trust me, there are things I don't like about players on all of my favorite teams. I still think Derrick Rose is a Dbag for having his brother take his SATs. Why does that make him a dbag?

pretty much the game. Fantastic finish by Wade, killed whatever Miami momentum was building.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 09:29 PM) What do you know, we actually agree on something. All sarcasm aside, the so called experts on this whole thing have been people who have extreme anti nuclear agendas. On TV, from what I've seen, all of the guests have been anti-nuclear except the one guy form the USGS who was just stating facts about seismic zones in the US. The real experts do need to step back and reevaluate their design assumptions.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 09:32 PM) Psycho though he may be, he's right on this. Not really, unless he still has a 20 yo toilet. Government regulation spurred innovation such that modern toilets use significantly less water and work just as effectively. Sort of like improved incandescents being developed once government regs came in.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 09:35 PM) Which means we all should have hoped a little harder 30 years ago when that bomb hit 50 feet beside him, because he's been killing his people for years, it just hasn't gotten any attention until there was an "uprising". This guy and Saddam will be good buddies in hell. I was talking with someone stationed on the Nimitz during that mission today who said pretty much the same thing.

LOL, Wade maybe gets fouled on a fast break but doesn't get the call, refuses to play defense leading to an easy 3 and continues whining to the refs to the point that he gets a technical.

I'm in favor of stopping Gaddafi from slaughtering Libyans.

probably because mubarak, while doing some awful things, wasn't wholesale slaughtering his own citizens.

There was no interest in taking Moubarak out with military force.

I have no doubt that we could take care of Gaddafi in a night. We won't, and the no-fly zone won't mean s*** in a couple of days. The rebels needed support last week or the week before, not hemming and hawing at the UN.

too little too late.

Oklahoma really collapsed going into the half.

Kind of assumed that the 50 or so people still working at the plant are basically sacrificing themselves.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 16, 2011 -> 03:20 PM) In other words, it's probably pretty analogous to what is going on in Japan, with the exception that this country does have some ability to reprocess the stuff so they're not necessarily stored forever. Well except that most of our plants aren't susceptible to a tsunami. The earthquake isn't what caused the problem here. SONGS' VP was on TV yesterday defending their emergency plans and saying they have back-up back-up diesel generators off-site that can be shipped in and hooked up in the case of a similar emergency there. They also have a 30 ft seawall in front of the plant. That said, I think the NEI, NRC, INPO, DOE and whatever other acronyms are appropriate need to review these plants' emergency plants and design assumptions ASAP. irrelevant note: ABC used some camera angles that were identical to pictures I took when I was there last fall.

eta also there's not a containment building around spent fuel for a variety of reasons. Maybe that needs to be reevaluated along with other design-basis assumptions, but the doom-and-gloom spewing from some of the anti-nuke people right now is pretty ridiculous. I know you disagree, but I see nuclear power as the only feasible short-to-mid-term alternative to more coal and natural gas. The risks of ever-increasing AGW far outweigh the risks of nuclear power. Even in the face of the worst potential natural disaster that could hit an older plant of the most susceptible design, it's still not that bad right now. This could turn much worse in a hurry, of course, and I'm not diminishing the environmental impact of what's occurring in Japan right now.

Nothing really, for the most part. My background is security. Aside from specific details withheld from public disclosure, all of the CFR's are available online along with the NRC Regulatory Guides, basically the NRC's interpretations of what the regulations are and suggestions on how to comply. Before I got into the industry, before I even finished college, I was interested in nuclear power, so I do have some knowledge in addition to what I've gained on-the-job. Spent fuel is stored in pools near the reactors until it's eventually loaded into dry casks. The dry casks are then stored on-site or in what's called an ISFSI. Security regulations around ISFSI's have been increased recently bringing them essentially to the same level as an active plant. Specific security requirements are withheld in accordance with DoE Safeguards standards, so there's not much more information to give.

Rand Paul also blames his broken toilet on the government.

The NEI has running updates on the situation. http://nei.cachefly.net/newsandevents/info...in-that-region/

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Mar 15, 2011 -> 10:49 PM) Last I checked, the name of the thread is still 2010-2011 NBA Thread. I am not even a fan of Kevin Love, but let the man post what he wishes. I didn't say he couldn't. I was responding to his "90% of the posts here are the same, only about Derrick Rose." I really don't care at all about his Love love.

I love agribusiness rebranding high-fructose corn syrup as "corn sugar" and saying it has no difference at all from sugar while also implying that there's nothing wrong with pumping almost all of our foods full of sugar.

Yeah, well, it is a Chicago board, and Derrick Rose is the MVP of the Decade