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  • chaogomu@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBut yes.
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    3 days ago

    Except, even then, an average coal plant will release more radioactive material over its lifetime than Fukushima did.

    It’s just Chernobyl that you have to top. And even then there are coal plants that come close.

    Now, it’s not apples to apples. Coal plants release uranium and thorium. Not ceasium and strontium.

    But yeah, never go swimming in a coal plant ash pit. For more than the obvious reasons.


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    Adding more radiation to tobacco. Sure.

    But slightly serious here. The actual mechanism of about 75% of tobacco related cancer, is the fact that tobacco leaves bioaccumulate natural radioactive elements from the soil.

    If you smoke, you have radioactive lead and polonium in your lungs.





  • The definition is that Tesla is shit.

    They’re selling a spotty lane assist as Self Driving when it is not.

    Other companies are selling actual self-driving cars, (even if those companies are fucking up as well) but Tesla is nowhere near that level of autonomy. All because Musk cheaped out on the sensor package.

    Teslas will never be self-driving, because they literally cannot detect the road and obstacles with just their little camera setup.

    They should not be allowed to call it self-driving, or autopilot, or anything else that implies that you can take your hands off the steering wheel.









  • Eh, it’s honestly safer than you’d think. The size of the reactor plays a huge role in safety.

    A reactor sized for a container ship would be literally incapable of melting down, because there just isn’t enough fuel to get to those temperatures. You could then limit the ship’s speed, and over build the reactor a bit, so that the reactor is never truly stressed during normal operation.

    Then for refueling, you just remove the entire reactor and replace it with a new, fully fueled one every 10 years or so.

    That’s where you want your controls.

    Other than that, yeah it would be safer than oil. A crash just means your reactor casing gets wet.

    The main worry is someone cutting into the reactor to take out the spicy rocks… and there are easier ways to get spicy rocks.