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Comment · 4 years ago
Did you know that coal ashes is also a bit radioactive? Contrary to the fuel of a nuclear power plant which is very radioactive but well contained, these ashes are just spread in the atmosphere during normal operation.
Comment · 4 years ago
1. A fossil fuel is a hydrocarbon-containing material. The fuel used for nuclear doesn't fit that description.

2. We're talking about fission, not fusion

3. We have enough of these non-renewable metals for a very long time.

Comment · 4 years ago
Your link show the opposite of what you claim. According to the main graph. Nuclear generation is not more expensive than other sources.

Also the costs at the output of the generator is one thing, but what counts is actually the cost of the useful power used. And renewables puts a lot of extra cost on the grid.

Comment · 4 years ago
Yes. Unless you use `unsafe`. Then the undefined behaviour rules gets even more difficult I'd say.
Comment · 4 years ago
http://www.0euro.org/

It's for tourists

Comment · 4 years ago
For example, as mentioned in another comment, by making all read and write `volatile`, that way, dangling pointer and out of bounds are "defined" to be memory corruption or crash, and not the compiler optimizing the code in a way that the programmer did not enticipate.
Comment · 4 years ago
Also, the car having automated sound alerts, or following the road and breaking automatically helps
Comment · 4 years ago
Wikipedia for example

Edit: oh, and Hackernews, too

Comment · 4 years ago
> make large areas unlivable for thousands of years

I think you are over-estimating the cost of this. I contest the use of 'large'. The 30km radius exclusion zone is nothing compared to the surface occupied by deserts, ice floe, or whatever of the many others existing unhinabitable places.

> and affect multiple countries and also killing a lot of people.

Because the war has been doing that already, at a even larger scale: thousands of civilians killed, many wounded, millions displaced. That's already worse than the consequences of a nuclear meltdown.

Comment · 4 years ago
The German are uneasy because of irrational fear and exaggerated risks.

Even if the worst happen at that nuclear power plant, it will still be a small disaster compared to all the causalities that already have happened in Ukraine the last few weeks (you know: the war)

Comment · 4 years ago
> Global warming continues to be a civilization-ending level threat,

Global warming is a threat that will have tons of negative impact. But is it really "civilization-ending"?

Comment · 4 years ago
According to the Linear-no-threshold model [1], any level of radiation, no matter how small, causes cancer. According to this model, the 1,000 μsv/year of normal background radiation already cause cancer for 1% of people. And any additional dose increase the risk further.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model

However this model is contested. And the analysis on the cancers incidence in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Chernobyl seems to indicate that this model is flawed. The exact model is difficult to estimate because of the low number of extra cancer is lost in the noise.

Comment · 4 years ago
It's like asking "do you accept bitcoin to circumvent tax law"

First of all, bitcoin does not circonvent tax law. (And linking does not circonvent GPL)

Comment · 4 years ago
Qt is already idiomatic C++17. Isn't it?
Comment · 4 years ago

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