that description is also not entirely accurate, because they’re separating magnesium chloride by crystallization i guess, maybe some other methid, and then dry it, melt it, electrolysis gives magnesium metal and chlorine gas. just like in conventional process
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.
a little known commander, general Sherman
“secede” and what else, that was most brazen imperialist land grab since ww2
how is that war with NATO going? zero NATO casualties, half million russian killed and wounded by now with no end in sight, after running through decades worth of soviet hoard of weapons. and what for? all for a distraction, psychopatic entertainment for russian nationalists, everything to keep putin’s approval ratings high. he tried to pull it out for the 4th time, and this time he met prepared resistance. end of war will be end of putin, but he doesn’t want to step down, so until someone pops him there won’t be peace
It’s a thorium based subcritical reactor. India tried to make something similar, but with some amount of plutonium to start this thing and to not include accelerator. The problem is that accelerator required is large and expensive, and needs to use up some fraction of power produced. As of waste, no heavy actinides are produced, and spiciest fission products have half-life of about 30 years, in particular there’s no plutonium or americium made with half life of 80 ish years and 430ish years respectively. This makes radioactivity drop in 100s of years instead of thousands. These problems can be solved in other ways, for example by using fast breeder reactors, but these are hard to make. So will be massive accelerator required, so i’m not holding my breath
freshly burned fuel is kept at nuclear powerplant spent fuel pool for months to years anyway precisely for this reason. heavy actinides have longer halflifes anyway
artykuł z dupy, chodzi o to że maszyny do litografii EUV produkcji ASML mają zdalny killswitch, serwis i dostawy części zamiennych są wymagane praktycznie cały czas a i TSMC komunikuje że nikt ich nie zmusi do pracy w warunkach chińskiej inwazji, i sami je wtedy zniszczą
Researchers explore mining seawater for critical metals (grist.org)
EU ministers fume as ‘outrageous’ Hungary yet again blocks military aid for Ukraine (www.politico.eu)
A large number of EU resolutions on Ukraine are being blocked by Hungary, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis....
Ant smell (mander.xyz)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 2 June 2024
Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!...
we're not Nazis btw (awful.systems)
Italian teenager nicknamed ‘God’s influencer’ set to become Catholic Church’s first millennial saint (edition.cnn.com)
Breakthrough Swiss tech cuts 80% of radioactive waste in nuclear plants [Ameya Paleja | May 27 24 | Interesting Engineering] (interestingengineering.com)
Radioactivity of nuclear waste could be reduced from thousands of years to less than 500 years.
Protons (mander.xyz)
Władze na Tajwanie: rozgromimy Chiny jednym przyciskiem (spidersweb.pl) Polish
Michelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWII (lemmy.world)
Edit: Someone sent this to me, but I found a source discussing it....