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eppur_se_muova

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10. I dunno ... "American Carnage" Trump may very well sign any bill that says "nuclear" on it.

Reply to dhol82 (Reply #7)

Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:25 PM

Jan 2017

If scientists and funding agencies are shrewd about it, they could really loosen the ol' purse strings for nuclear research.

Yeah, I know, probably wishful thinking. But who knows ?

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Spontaneous separation of californium and curium. [View all] NNadir Jan 2017 OP

Didn't really understand about 99% of this but, dhol82 Jan 2017 #1

Thanks. It is really cool. Actually... NNadir Jan 2017 #3

It sounds like very exciting work! dhol82 Jan 2017 #6

Once we learn to safely manage PWRs, maybe we can get more exotic. HassleCat Jan 2017 #2

PWR's are already the world's safest, by far, energy production machines, by far. NNadir Jan 2017 #4

Safer than others is not good enough. HassleCat Jan 2017 #5

Listen kiddie, the contention that it's OK for 70 million people to die every ten years from... NNadir Jan 2017 #8

I'm not a scientist. HassleCat Jan 2017 #9

What on Earth is *perfectly* safe ? Coal ? Oil ? Gas ? Electricity ? even renewables ? eppur_se_muova Jan 2017 #11

Sadly, that doesn't sound like it's going to happen any time soon dhol82 Jan 2017 #7

I dunno ... "American Carnage" Trump may very well sign any bill that says "nuclear" on it. eppur_se_muova Jan 2017 #10

34% Curium is kind of mind-blowing. eppur_se_muova Jan 2017 #12

Well, we are not manufacturing curium on that scale now. The reference simply reports... NNadir Jan 2017 #13