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Look, you're not helping matters by sensationalizing something that simply isn't true. Plutonium is toxic, but a single "particle" certainly isn't 100% lethal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Toxicity On the other hand, the really nasty problem with Plutonium is that as it...

Way slow... Here's a 1TB SSD with up to 1.4GB/sec read/write and sustained around 950MB/sec. And, that's one drive, no RAID0. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227517 Will only set you back $4,400.

Not to worry. I'm sure drcraig is monitoring the situation and will let us know once it's a problem.

Siemens Rethinks Nuclear Ambitions April 15, 2011 German engineering giant Siemens AG is considering whether to abandon its goal of becoming a major player in the atomic-power industry, according to people familiar with the matter, as Japan's nuclear crisis continues to unfold...

Interesting. You come out and jump over an admittedly subjective argument that can't be proven, either way. Yet, you won't touch the spent fuel issue. Can't say as I blame you, we all know, including you, that it's harmful... :D

That number is theoretical and unsubstantiated. One number that is factual is the number of highway deaths per year in the U.S. -- over 33,000. Yet, we still drive cars... Well, according to the Dutch, their electricity generation produces 443g of CO2 and 0.000287 grams of radioactive...

I agree. There are plenty of people who won't travel somewhere because they perceive it to be unsafe the same as people who won't eat genetically modified foods, steroids enhanced meat, or seafood from the Gulf of Mexico, etc. And it's all because they no longer trust anything said by anyone...

I've seen plenty of videos of lions, tigers, bears, zebras and asses. But, I've never seen a bigger ass until you came along.

Wrong, again... Speed of Animals Most of the following measurements are for maximum speeds over approximate quarter-mile distances. Exceptions—which are included to give a wide range of animals—are the lion and elephant, whose speeds were clocked in the act of charging; the whippet...

That destruction, no matter how far and wide, will be dealt with in far less time and with far less money per acre than the Fukeshima power plant and its surrounding area. Decades from now, when saplings that have yet to be planted in those tsunami-destroyed areas will have grown into mature...

...“Fukushima is not the worst nuclear accident ever but it is the most complicated and the most dramatic,” said James Acton, Associate of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ...“People will look back when they see that there were not many...

The Robot Rule Don't start a nuclear reactor unless you have robots to stop it from melting down. ...This is crazy. We can't have the first robots arriving unfit and unprepared three days after a nuclear facility was nearly abandoned to meltdown because of radiation. Robots have to be...

What's truly amazing/frightening is that while the Fukushima incident was still ramping up the U.S. government issued a recommendation to U.S. citizens in the area to evacuate the region if they were within 80km from the plant. The U.S. wasn't alone in that recommendation, several other...

Quite true. Now, stop ducking the spent fuel problem. The fact remains that there are close to 30 operational U.S. reactors of the exact same design as the Fukushima boiling water reactors, right down to their spent fuel cooling tanks and tons of hot & cold fuel stored on-site. It's...

Rants aside, the fact remains that perception is reality. Enough nuclear related incidents/disasters have occurred to make any attempt at building a large-scale nuclear power plant near any densely populated urban area a non-starter. The pro-nuke argument of reducing CO2 emissions is just...

Intel’s Second-Gen Core CPUs: The Sandy Bridge Review Although the processing cores in Intel’s Sandy Bridge architecture are decidedly similar to Nehalem, the integration of on-die graphics and a ring bus improves performance for mainstream users. Intel’s Quick Sync is this design’s...

Agreed. They'd contribute much more by not.

If you're going to give someone advice it would help a great deal if you actually knew what you were talking about. First, any precious metal ETF is taxed at the collectible long-term capital gains rate, which is a maximum of 28% not the 15% that common stock is taxed at. So, if you're...

Not even close... India Graduates Millions, but Too Few Are Fit to Hire "75% of technical graduates and more than 85% of general graduates are unemployable by India's high-growth global industries, including information technology and call centers, according to results from assessment...

Not all patents are created equally, FTA: "Utility Model Patents: Approximately half of all Chinese patents filed in 2009 were utility models, which are less-rigorous, more-affordable forms of patents that provide 10 years of protection (versus 20 years for invention patents)."