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bond_trad3r, In my view people who publish this "yellow radioactive rain" nonsense are beneath contempt. They do so entirely for their own political purposes and show utter disregard for the unnecessary distress and fear that this sort of baseless scare mongering promotes. Let's get one...

Trends in radiation levels in Fukushima and adjacent prefectures. Radiation levels are clearly declining. http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1301652988P.pdf

The case of the Finnish EPR is repeatedly brought up by opponents of nuclear power. For a counter example, the most recent new nuclear power plant to come on line (Feb 2011) was in South Korea. From "first concrete" to completion took just four years, followed by 6 months of commissioning tests...

The element you are referring to is Plutonium. Apparently MOX which contains some Plutonium from decommissioned weapons is in reactor #3. However all partly used uranium fuel rods contain Plutonium because U238 is transmuted to Plutonium in reactor cores. The amounts detected in the grounds of...

That's pretty stupid. Over most of Japan radiation levels are less than the average natural background level in the US. If you are more than 40-50 km from Fukushima Daiichi, there is essentially no risk.

Exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons tests peaked in 1963 at 5% of exposure due to natural causes. It has declined to 0.2% today: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12729417

No it is not. Most exposure to radiation is from natural sources eg minerals in the ground, radon in the air, potassium 40 in the food we eat etc. Nearly all the remaining exposure is from medical procedures. http://depletedcranium.com/on-lnt-and-nuclear-energy/#more-4597

As drp7804 says, do a simulation. What the OP has posted is far too vague to draw any conclusions from. If a simulation shows their may be performance issues, then profile the code, find the bottlenecks and review the situation. Remember that premature optimization is one of the real sins...

An interesting take on the dangers (or lack of danger) of low level radiation from Wade Allison, a nuclear and medical physicist at the University of Oxford: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12860842

Plutonium is very dense. It is not likely to travel very far, and there is little release of it so far. The biggest risk for lasting contamination of the surrounding area is cesium 137. It is quite simply pointless to make statements like "The effects of radioactivity will be long term". It's...

Has anybody been been killed? Is anybody hospitalized due to radiation exposure? (The three workers taken to hospital after the water incident have been released without apparent problems). Is there any evidence or report of any member of the public receiving a 100 mSv or greater radiation...

I've always installed it "by hand" from the download from Sun and have never had a problem. If you install each new release into a different directory, it makes it very easy to swap between java versions without fiddling around with package management. Just put a JAVA_HOME line into your...

According to this piece: http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/03/roger-bilham-on-honshu-earthquake-and.html "In 1896 a 33 m high tsunami drowned the Sanriku coastline 200 km to the north of Fukushima. A 23 m wave surged on the same coast in 1933, and in 1993 a 30 m wave swept over Okushira...

TEPCO reported that the tsunami at Fukushima Daiichi was 14m in height. From reports I have read, the design requirements for the plant were to withstand a tsunami of 5.7m. Presumably this was approved by the regulator. There will be lots of questions to be answered and one of them must be -...

Go to the NVidia support forums and do a search or post your problem. The NVidia tech people hangout there and can be quite helpful. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/index.php

Lots of information and some good videos: http://energyfromthorium.com/

Here is the projected cost of electricity generation from new nuclear power plants in a number of countries compiled by the IEA in their 2010 report: It depends on country and on discount rate and varies from $29.05 per MWh (Sth Korea) to $136.50per MWh (Switzerland) , but the nations...

"Düsseldorf, Germany – E.ON Kraftwerke has received the permission for its new coal fired power plant project at its Studinger location in Großkrotzenburg, Germany. The permission covers the construction of a 1100 MW power plant that will also produce 300 MW of district heating."...

It seems that Germany has about 18 GWe of PV installed. PV in northern Europe has a capacity factor of about 12%. In 2008 according to the IEA, Germany produced about 640, 000 GWh of electricity. Do the sums and you will find that PV is producing about 3% of German electricity. Insignificant for...

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