In a warehouse off Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway in an industrial area outside Dallas, the future of American military ammunition production is coming online....
poland was previously sanctioned under article 7 for undue influence over judiciary, but is not longer so
“We consider there is no longer a clear risk of a serious breach of the rule of law in Poland,” said European Commissioner Věra Jourová.
The decision, previewed earlier this month and formalised on Wednesday morning, ends a long-running saga that dates back to December 2017 when the European Commission triggered Article 7 — known as the “nuclear option” because it can lead to the suspension of voting rights — over Poland’s systematic erosion of judicial independence.
between pure fission design and thermonuke for a militarily relevant yields, say, 100-500 kt range, both designs are in principle working, but thermonuke is both compact and derives most of energy from cheap materials (natural to moderately enriched uranium and lithium deuteride). This is important if you remember that this thing has to fit in an ICBM
thermonukes have an extra advantage that they’re staged, that means dial-a-yield becomes possible - not all parts have to be used
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
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
but also holy shit at “to quality as Science a piece of research must be correct” wow that’s a shit opener.
it’s correct because it says it’s correct
also “science is published science” mdpi likes that, and also weird to see his claim of 80 papers since 2022 (discuss.tchncs.de/post/16521037) that are mostly preprints on background of him saying that peer review is Important
In case you ever wondered the M1 is safe to operate in a school zone (lemm.ee)
Polish MoD announced that the eastern border will be reinforced with 50km deep fortification line called Eastern Shield. (lemm.ee)
Pentagon Opens Ammunition Factory to Keep Arms Flowing to Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
In a warehouse off Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway in an industrial area outside Dallas, the future of American military ammunition production is coming online....
Poland exits Article 7, the EU's special procedure on rule of law (www.euronews.com)
MY BABY NOOOOO (sh.itjust.works)
After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs (arstechnica.com)
"there is little incentive not to use it" (lemmy.zip)
web.archive.org/web/…/Nuclear_weapon_design...
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.
Researchers explore mining seawater for critical metals (grist.org)
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