https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/safer-nuclear-reactors-are-on-the-way/

In the U.S., lack of a permanent, deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel has long put a brake on expanding the industry. Political sentiment may be changing. This spring, surprisingly, more than a dozen U.S. legislators proposed measures to restart licensing for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, touted since 1987 as the country’s leading storage site. Meanwhile Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is advocating for very small, modular reactors being developed at Idaho National Laboratory. (Rosatom is making small reactors, too.) And a group of Western states has entered a tentative deal with NuScale Power in Oregon for a dozen of its modular reactors. Improved fuels and growth in small reactors could be a big part of a nuclear power rebirth.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/science/chernobyls-sarcophagus-dismantled-collapse

... the Ukrainian company handling the site said the sarcophagus has a "very high" chance of collapsing and that gravity is what's kept the structure tethered to its supporting blocks.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/science/chernobyls-sarcophagus-dismantled-collapse

I find this article strange. The whole point of building new conrainment was to dismantle the old sarcophagus that has been crumbling for years now? I would imagine with EU pouring billions of dollars into it, this would have been accounted for? Unless money went elsewhere as they often do in those areas

https://www.neweurope.eu/article/chernobyl-new-safe-confinement-concluded/

 

I heard on the news there was some kind of explosion in Russia and a release of radiation and it is related to a missile test that went wrong.

 

I heard on the news there was some kind of explosion in Russia and a release of radiation and it is related to a missile test that went wrong.

Apparently there was an explosive event of some sort... although I have not yet found a reliable source explaining its nature... much the less saying it was a missile test of sorts

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...agency-confirms-role-in-rocket-test-explosion

Russia’s nuclear energy agency has said an explosion that caused radiation levels to spike in the Arkhangelsk region was caused by an accident during a test of an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine”.

In a statement released late on Friday, Rosatom said five of its employees had died as a result of the accident and three more were being treated for burns.

The statement was the first confirmation that the agency was involved in the incident, which briefly drove radiation levels up to 20 times their normal levels in the nearby city of Severodvinsk.

Rosatom’s description of the incident could indicate it was testing the nuclear-powered cruise missile Burevestnik mentioned during a speech by Vladimir Putin last year.

https://www.rosatom.ru/journalist/news/zayavlenie-departamenta-kommunikatsiy-goskorporatsii-rosatom/
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/krnd.htm

Bad things happen in Russia all the time.

 

a "nuclear-powered cruise missile"? ... how would that work?

 

a "nuclear-powered cruise missile"? ... how would that work?

I've no idea what process they are using to create thrust but it seems to have a major problem but when has safety concerns been a problem for the Russian military.

The concept of a "nuclear-powered cruise missile" is from the 60's.
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4356168
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

The proposed use for nuclear-powered ramjets would be to power a cruise missile, called SLAM, for Supersonic Low Altitude Missile. In order to reach ramjet speed, it would be launched from the ground by a cluster of conventional rocket boosters. Once it reached cruising altitude and was far away from populated areas, the nuclear reactor would be made critical. Since nuclear power gave it almost unlimited range, the missile could cruise in circles over the ocean until ordered "down to the deck" for its supersonic dash to targets in the Soviet Union. The SLAM, as proposed, would carry a payload of many nuclear weapons to be dropped on multiple targets, making the cruise missile into an unmanned bomber. After delivering all its warheads, the missile could then spend weeks flying over populated areas at low altitudes, causing tremendous ground damage with its shock wave and fallout. When it finally lost enough power to fly, and crash-landed, the engine would have a good chance of spewing deadly radiation for months to come.

 

I've no idea what process they are using to create thrust but it seems to have a major problem but when has safety concerns been a problem for the Russian military.

The concept of a "nuclear-powered cruise missile" is from the 60's.
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4356168
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

Thats insanity, may I, " Oh the humanity"

kv

 

Thats insanity, may I, " Oh the humanity"

kv

That's what made the Cold War fun, spending insane amounts of money, on insane weapons, designed to kill insane numbers of people, in the most insane ways possible.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/mi...19/slam-cruise-missile-nuclear-thermonuclear/

 

Chernobyl Vodka, it has quite the kick!
https://www.sciencealert.com/scient...grain-grown-inside-chernobyl-s-exclusion-zone
Max.

 

Chernobyl Vodka, it has quite the kick!
https://www.sciencealert.com/scient...grain-grown-inside-chernobyl-s-exclusion-zone
Max.

It's when cancer has no more meaning. It might cure what ails you, self radiated.

kv

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...agency-confirms-role-in-rocket-test-explosion

https://www.rosatom.ru/journalist/news/zayavlenie-departamenta-kommunikatsiy-goskorporatsii-rosatom/
https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/krnd.htm

Bad things happen in Russia all the time.

Read american news lately? We are just used to different bad things happening. The side effect of the human condition.

 

Read american news lately? We are just used to different bad things happening. The side effect of the human condition.

The main difference is the tragic events here are mainly caused by citizens abusing their rights instead of the citizens rights abusing government conducting hazardous experiments on a sometimes mass scale while not even pretending to give a damn like in Russia.

 

The main difference is the tragic events here are mainly caused by citizens abusing their rights instead of the citizens rights abusing government conducting hazardous experiments on a sometimes mass scale while not even pretending to give a damn like in Russia.

The way you put it, you just made an excellent case of why it is better to live in Russia
Thank you.

 

The way you put it, you just made an excellent case of why it is better to live in Russia
Thank you.

No he didn't. What he stated was clear, concise and right on target.

Ron

 

No he didn't. What he stated was clear, concise and right on target.

Ron

Thereby implying that US government does not conduct hazardous experiments? Please give me a break. Politics were banned on this site? Once you make a comment such as "bad things happen is Russia all the time", you make this political. But my hands are tied in terms of my reply by the rules. Good job everyone.

 

Thereby implying that US government does not conduct hazardous experiments? Please give me a break. Politics were banned on this site? Once you make a comment such as "bad things happen is Russia all the time", you make this political. But my hands are tied in terms of my reply by the rules. Good job everyone.

I never mentioned a thing about Russia, I merely agreed with another member who you apparently disagree with. I also never implied that the US Government has never conducted hazardous experiments, not at all so spare me what you seem to think I said. The US Government has in fact conducted hazardous experiments on US soil, The Tuskegee syphilis experiment comes to mind as well as the 1,032 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992. Likely more than any other country. Those would be facts and nothing to do with politics. The trick is knowing how to distinguish between the two.

Ron

 

I never mentioned a thing about Russia, I merely agreed with another member who you apparently disagree with. I also never implied that the US Government has never conducted hazardous experiments, not at all so spare me what you seem to think I said. The US Government has in fact conducted hazardous experiments on US soil, The Tuskegee syphilis experiment comes to mind as well as the 1,032 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992. Likely more than any other country. Those would be facts and nothing to do with politics. The trick is knowing how to distinguish between the two.

Ron

Well, we read the post by nsaspook quite differently. This is a good example of how conflicts are started. I was commenting on his post. You see, bad things happen in the world all the time... There isnt a government that cares for its citizens.

I explained how you make a post political - by making a comment to which I cannot reply without bringing up US government policies. You and nsaspook are on the side that can get away with it.

Please tell me what is the point of saying "bad things happen in Russia all the time" on an international forum?

I am out.

 

Thereby implying that US government does not conduct hazardous experiments? Please give me a break. Politics were banned on this site? Once you make a comment such as "bad things happen is Russia all the time", you make this political. But my hands are tied in terms of my reply by the rules. Good job everyone.

How is it political? Seems to me you are confusing jabs at forms of national governance instead of internal political parties. The USA has done some horrible things to its citizens in the name of this or that but it pales in comparison to the long history of incidents in Russia.

https://www.cracked.com/article_24354_5-hilarious-ways-soviet-russia-didnE28099t-give-f2A2Ak.html