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This is so typical of the Canadian government.

The effectivly FORCE you to use this site as they try to cut costs and reduce "call in" support.

Then, they create a ToS which absolves them of all responsibility if they are hacked?

I would be willing to bet that if any Canadian business tried this the government would crack down and state it not permitted.

The government has a tendency of "do as i say not as i do".

Any Canadian can tell you that for the most part government IT is utter garbage.

<cough>arrive-can</cough><cough>Phoenix</cough>

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This sort of perpetuates the same myth about Plutonium being dangerous covered in the article.

If you have the right plutonium isotope, in the correct shape and compress it just right.. it is a very dangerous metal.

if you have a small piece of it, it is rather harmless given it is an alpha emitter and can be stopped via single sheet of paper.

Tritium falls under the same category.

If you have a nuclear device, and put tritium in it, the tritium participates in the reaction and effectively "boosts" the yield.

If you have some Tritium, it is a weak beta emitter and you will either exhale it out (Tritium gas) or urinate it if it is in liquid form.

Like all radioactive material it does increase your chances of cancer, but you would need a fair amount of it.

Given Tritium is an isotope of Hydrogen, it isn't "like water" it IS water..but radioactive.

water - H2O Heavy water - D2O Super heavy water - T2O

Comedy is subjective.

Try telling a sexually charged joke at your place of employment and see what happens.

World leaders freely slandering other countries like this is shameful, and not what you expect from a "world leader".

Many countries are still stranded with "cold war" environmental problems.

The US has many "superfunds" dedicated to cleaning up "cold war radioactivity" issues.

A bit more info on the Quebec asbestos issues. Canada didnt stop exporting it until 2012.

" Canada led world production of asbestos before the country’s two largest mines (both in Quebec) halted operations in 2012. The closure marked the suspension of the country’s asbestos production for the first time in 130 years. "

Exporting this wasn't unique to the Soviets.

So like telling "jokes" at Russia's expense by a man of questionable ethics?

what is the point of his joke, if not to mock another country?

The OP posted a quote, and i posted one too?

Thanks for a link to a site labeled "free propaganda". It really rang true here, it is propaganda, and it is free?

Do read the comments on youtube.

I suggest you look at the external debt of China vs other nations, you may be surprised with what you find.

Thanks!!

Your view really depends on the design.

CANDU (Canadian reactor design) is moderated via deuterium in which case there is a LOT of it circulating in the reactor core.

The heavy water is syphoned off to a tritium separation unit for recovery. With a market value of $30,000 a gram, there is a clear incentive to recover it ;)

non-metals have their own problems and glass tends to have some really weird properties.

I would think a major one would be their failure mode. Metals flex and expand before they eventually fail. Glass/ceramic is fine until suddenly it isn't and has a total failure.

Think of a window being hit. If it were metal it would probably deform but if it is glass it shatters.

Next would be joining them on-site. If needed, metal piping can be bent and welded in-place. what do you do with a glass pipe that needs a join? what do you do if there is a small variation in the plans and the pipe needs an adjustment?

I think there are a host of reasons why glass is not used for pipes.