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My 1st stretch of graduate research was on using microbes to help lock up soluble uranium salts into soil by rendering them insoluble. Basically the bacteria can reduce oxidized uranium salts. Reduced uranium is not really water soluble. Why do this? http://projects.wsj.com/waste-lands/site/423-shiprock-mill-site/ quote:"The Shiprock site is the location of a former uranium- and vanadium-ore-processing facility within the Navajo Nation in the northwest corner of New Mexico near the town of Shiprock, approximately 28 miles west of Farmington," according to a Department of Energy fact sheet. "Kerr-McGee built the mill and operated the facility from 1954 until 1963. Vanadium Corporation of America purchased the mill and operated it until it closed in 1968. The milling operations created process- related wastes and radioactive tailings, a predominantly sandy material." Except the whole disposal cell slowly leaches out water soluble radioactive material into the groundwater which goes into the nearby river to the reservation. So, maybe we can use bacteria growing in that ground to tie up the radioactive material and keep it tied up in the ground instead of spreading into the water. Neat idea. From working on this stuff for a year or so I met a lot of people dealing with nuclear waste and the inevitable conversations about Hanford. Talking with them, Hanford is just loving hell on earth.
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I have had Hanford described like that too, from some colleagues of my uncle (I have two living in the US, the one I'm writing about used to work in a NPP there - IPEC). I wonder how would anyone begin to describe something like Mayak. Dante80 fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Dante80 posted:I have had Hanford described like that too, from some colleagues of my uncle (I have two living in the US, the one I'm writing about used to work in a NPP there). I don't think there are word in the English language for that. I mean that very literally. It seems like the sort of thing that only the most nihilistic of Russian idioms could convey.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I don't think there are word in the English language for that. Come on, you've lived in Germany and know German. They HAVE to have a 30 letter long word for this also.
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Btw...one of my uncles' colleagues I was talking about described Hanford something like the "Aristocrats joke equivalent of nuclear sites". I remember that vividly, since I had no idea what the joke was about, and I even ended up downloading a movie about it - the joke, that is. 
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tangy yet delightful posted:Come on, you've lived in Germany and know German. They HAVE to have a 30 letter long word for this also. We usually just default to "Scheiße"
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Cat Mattress posted:Because of Helmut Coal. I feel like 'how to build a civilian nuclear power plant' and 'how to build a modern nuclear bomb' are slightly different areas of expertise even if they both have 'nuclear' in the name.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I don't think there are word in the English language for that. I think I've heard the term "the Devil's war zone" someplace, feels it should be Russian
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tangy yet delightful posted:In 2017 I saw the USS Intrepid in NYC, here's some photos I took (I'll probably post one half tonight the other tomorrow). Galaxy S8 photography, sorry in advance. What are your thoughts on the museum? Its reasonably close to my company's office in NYC so Id like to pay it a visit next time I'm in town.
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LingcodKilla posted:If the US Navy can keep our ancient carriers from melting down then I don’t see the big deal with reactors liberally sprinkled all over the US. If you don’t like then you must hate are sailors since they be the ones most likely working on them once they get out. We might be able to keep them from melting down, but if the Enterprise is any indication, we don't really know what to do with them once it's time to get rid of them. At least with the CVs the biggest hazard was clearing out all the absestos before towing them out to sea for a SINKEX. Miso Beno posted:What are your thoughts on the museum? Its reasonably close to my company's office in NYC so Id like to pay it a visit next time I'm in town. I've visited Intrepid twice now. Once in the late 80s and once right before Christmas in 2018. I was less impressed the second time around because so little (save for the Enterprise Pavilion on the fantail) had changed since said late-80s visit - which ironically is something that also bums me out about the A&S in DC. I was far more  about the USS Growler tied up on the other side of the pier, since it was kinda cool to see what would've been a no-poo poo *suicide submarine* if it'd ever been called on to do its job. They also open up the Concorde for tours, but you have to time your visit right.Other than that, check to see if there's a discounted Groupon rather than pay full price. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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US expels 21 Saudi military trainees for having jihadist material and child porn. 
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Where was the origin of "Its the first two lines of their hymn" from again? From the last thread...
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BIG HEADLINE posted:
oh good call on the Groupon, and I can take or leave the concord tour since I've done the one at the [url=]Museum of Flight[/url] in Washington, although it would be cool to say I've been inside half of the concords outside of Europe. 
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Saint Celestine posted:Where was the origin of "Its the first two lines of their hymn" from again? From the last thread... It was a post about the Marines and something about not getting involved in foreign entanglements. And someone replied that the first two lines of the Marine hymn are about the Marines getting the US involved in foreign wars. @Miso: Intrepid is also cool from an "old warship" perspective. You can actually go up into the conning tower/CIC (but you can't touch anything since it's all walled off by lucite) and walk out to one of the gun emplacements on the starboard side. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I was less impressed the second time around because so little (save for the Enterprise Pavilion on the fantail) had changed since said late-80s visit - which ironically is something that also bums me out about the A&S in DC. You've been to Udvar Hazy, right? Also Air & Space just started a big overhaul. Should be done in a few years. Still open but some exhibits are closed while they work on them.
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Cyrano4747 posted:You've been to Udvar Hazy, right? Yeah, I've been to Udvar-Hazy a few times, and it's about goddamned time for the DC museum to get a refresh.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It was a post about the Marines and something about not getting involved in foreign entanglements. And someone replied that the first two lines of the Marine hymn are about the Marines getting the US involved in foreign wars. Specifically "From the halls of Montezuma / To the shores of Tripoli" just at a point where the US was looking at escalating in Libya and maybe doing regime change in Venezuela.
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More airpowers as I go through my various poorly organized picture directories. These seem to be a mix of the Palmdale air park and the San Diego Air & Space museum.     The Palmdale airpark is wild. You can just walk right up underneath the shuttle carrier 747 and the B-52.
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feedmegin posted:I feel like 'how to build a civilian nuclear power plant' and 'how to build a modern nuclear bomb' are slightly different areas of expertise even if they both have 'nuclear' in the name. How do you build up and maintain a military nuclear sector without having a civilian nuclear sector? (And, inversely, without military nuclear potential, allowing to harness the power of the defense industry lobby, there was no way you could push a civilian nuclear program past the fossil fuel lobbies, who hate any sort of non-fossil-fuel competition. That was definitely true in the Cold War era, at least.) With a robust civilian nuclear sector, you can be a nuclear breakout state, like Japan. You have something that lets you train nuclear engineers and nuclear physicists, and a good way to generate and stockpile plutonium. Being a breakout state is useful, it gives you some amount of deterrence but without having to break the NPT or spend too much on it. Germany is a nuclear breakout state, but will not remain one for long.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:The Palmdale airpark is wild. You can just walk right up underneath the shuttle carrier 747 and the B-52. Might want to be a bit wary of the shadier spots near the gear, or at least walk with heavy steps. Probably less of a concern in the cooler/colder months, though. Don't forget about the Convair 990 gate guardian up at Mojave, too. And Baracoa in Palmdale serves a baller Cuban sandwich...at least, way damned better than anything I can get in/around DC. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Cat Mattress posted:How do you build up and maintain a military nuclear sector without having a civilian nuclear sector? (And, inversely, without military nuclear potential, allowing to harness the power of the defense industry lobby, there was no way you could push a civilian nuclear program past the fossil fuel lobbies, who hate any sort of non-fossil-fuel competition. That was definitely true in the Cold War era, at least.) Sure, but saying the reason that Germany doesnt like nuclear reactors is that it cant be arsed to spend the money so it can make nuclear weapons at short notice, presupposes that would be the main reason Germany might otherwise want nuclear reactors. It isn't. Its not like Cold War Germany specifically needed nuclear deterrence anyway - if World War 3 happens both Germanies are getting carpetted in tactical nukes in any case, which come to think of it combined with the experience of 1945 might have something to do with the general dislike of nukes there.
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Some Training/Period videos: Ejection Decision - A second Too Late! (1981) "Amazingly, though the impact broke his spine, that's not what killed him. He burned to death in the fireball." "Passed through our spin-chute altitude at 22,000 feet. I deployed the spin-chute as briefed, and the spin-chute came off in the maneuver. Now things were not going as expected." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa1Ba_NEobs FLAK! Good breakdown of German AAA systems and survivability maneuvers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYVwqHM488 This is pre-WWII, but I link it because it is a masterclass of how to make a training video get somewhat complex mechanics across to a layperson. Hotlinked beyond the hook, because if you're clicking this link, you probably don't need fancy motorcycle displays to get your attention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI&t=110s Aggressor F-16s knocking out F-14s in training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MKnR3BzSRY
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Kesper North posted:Specifically "From the halls of Montezuma / To the shores of Tripoli" just at a point where the US was looking at escalating in Libya and maybe doing regime change in Venezuela. It's have to find the original post, but I believe someone was arguing that the Marines aktchually are all about some specific kind of amphibious support in peer wars and not historically about kicking in the doors of
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BIG HEADLINE posted:We might be able to keep them from melting down, but if the Enterprise is any indication, we don't really know what to do with them once it's time to get rid of them. Triton decommissioned in 1969, and didn’t finish recycling until 2009. Scrapping nuclear vessels is complicated. (Considering the nightmare that is scrapping conventional vessels in the US, I can’t even begin to imagine what being the Enterprise recycling project manager is like.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnJ_68ol14E
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Wingnut Ninja posted:More airpowers as I go through my various poorly organized picture directories. These seem to be a mix of the Palmdale air park and the San Diego Air & Space museum. Yea the F-4 shot is San Diego.
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MrYenko posted:(Considering the nightmare that is scrapping conventional vessels in the US, I can’t even begin to imagine what being the Enterprise recycling project manager is like.) I dunno, sounds like a pretty solid lifetime gig.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:I dunno, sounds like a pretty solid lifetime gig. Fair point.
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Saint Celestine posted:Where was the origin of "Its the first two lines of their hymn" from again? From the last thread... vains posted:...we don't maintain a marine corps to hassle tin pot dictators or third rate powers. hobbesmaster posted:It's literally the first two lines of their hymn.
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bloops posted:Yea the F-4 shot is San Diego. It’s Duke Cunningham’s F-4, too.
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Problematic Soup posted:It’s Duke Cunningham’s F-4, too. Wow, disgraced congressman and convicted felon Duke Cunningham?!
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Rudolph the red-nosed recon drone! (Yes, I know that's just a cover.)
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Somebody Awful posted:US expels 21 Saudi military trainees for having jihadist material and child porn. I'm sure we're all shocked at the behavior of our humble and stalwart allies.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:which ironically is something that also bums me out about the A&S in DC. NASM is undergoing a massive renovation. They discovered that the building itself is in bad shape because it was built on the cheap, but they’re using that as an excuse to finally modernize. For the last decade or so all the attention was firmly on the annex out by Dulles. Shortly before they closed the first galleries, we were at a reception there and I got a good laugh about a series of displays explaining how airplanes would soon be designed using things called computers, using “software” called CADCAM.
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Problematic Soup posted:It’s Duke Cunningham’s F-4, too. And it's posed so that it's chasing a MiG through the atrium of the museum.  It's really a museum that needs like two or three times the building size, they have a ton of cool planes that are just jam packed on top of each other.
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Is the A-12 outside still in such an appalling state?
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McNally posted:Wow, disgraced congressman and convicted felon Duke Cunningham?! Lol, yup. I hope that got added to the plaque in front of the F-4. Haven’t been there in years.
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So I'm making a mod for grog game Armored Brigade. Basically, I'm making factions that are the equivalent of the regular standard Cold War countries, but if their respective defense departments had been huffing even more lead paint than they did in real life and instead procured every single weird boondoggle (think T95s and MBT-70s instead of M60s and M1s, etc...). Anyway, I've been finishing up the US-equivalent and in looking for fun alternatives I've just discovered that for some reason, Russian wikipedia has way, way more information on bizarre US prototype weapons and the programs leading up to them than English wikipedia. Like, who is this one Russian who has extremely strong opinions on the idea that Ford Aerospace's entry should have won the AAWS-M competition? Because based on the edit log it's one guy and he spent a good month writing every little detail of the procurement process and why Ford should have got it.
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SlowBloke posted:The op is missing "When the wind blows" in the list of movies that will make you depressed to death Is that the senior citizen animated atomic death feature? I couldn't remember its name - I thought it was "The Wind Rises" which, spoiler alert, is wrong While I was busy I saw this: you know how dash-8s from Bombardier will solve all of Canada's military problems? I was shocked to discover spy plane dash-8s exist, and the US military uses them. The shock comes mainly because Canada just bought similar spyplanes from the US.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Is that the senior citizen animated atomic death feature? I couldn't remember its name - I thought it was "The Wind Rises" which, spoiler alert, is wrong Made me think of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1S5pAF1YYA A much lighter take on the apocalypse
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