Nuke subs are a bad example for looking at waste because they use higher enriched uranium. And that creates big casks of depleted uranium hexafluoride that we just have no idea what to do with other than sitting them in fields and hoping they don’t leak.

I don’t think it’s worth abandoning fusion research. I just think we’re much farther than popsci ever portrays and I have serious problems with the no waste framing.

It’s not particularly long but it’s very much in Superfund abandonment territory when you look at the economics of that “recycling” of low grade radioactive waste. I mean look at how much higher the cost per target is in this presentation alone for internal confinement is based on their kilowatt hours with recycling included. And that’s not including the reprocessing and production costs of targets or the fact that rapid target replacement will just frankly break as high energy neutrons and ablation screw up internals.

It’s not a quote, just a reality for non-existent blanket recycling technology and dealing with neutron energies that far exceed anything fission produces in slow neutron reactors and the large amounts of waste created from spallation and tritium handling.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ac62f7/pdf

without leaving behind hazardous waste

By volume blanket reprocessing and neutron activated vessel components create more hazardous waste than fission could dream of (not including the nightmare of on site fuel reprocessing for breeders that are similarly pie in the sky)

The last one isn’t one that would generally disqualify you, more to catch you lying. There doesn’t exist people who would put more money in a vending machine because it’s a stupid idea and vending machines don’t work that way.

Ethical answers to that range from the utilitarian give it to someone hungry to the deontological leave it since it’s not yours. But putting more money into a malfunctioning vending machine is chaotic stupid on the ethical charts.

Infrastructure like this is one of the things that shouldn’t be driven by a profit motive because the positive externalities greatly exceed the potential profit loss from overbuilding. But what can you do, capitalism.

Yojimbo

I think it’s important to point out that these reactors are miniaturized high enriched uranium reactors for vessels. They don’t help improve nk’s actual weapons program but instead their second strike/delivery capability.

I don’t agree. The prices will rise across the board no matter where you site the memory or if it’s in a gaming computer or otherwise. Renting will always be more expensive than owning because competitors must recoup the capital cost of buying and make margin at the same time.

Depends on your pet theory as to what sort of soul the player character has in the elder scrolls, but being adjacent to the missing God isn’t far off.

Even beyond the basic drydock capacity we straight up don’t produce enough steel for this anymore. Even the US military industrial complex is a hollow shell.

US already doesn’t have the shipbuilding capacity to lay down the hulls we’ve already got planned for years, but yeah go on.

Volunteer to get basic training out of the way for when they gotta draft you. What’s with the cryptic nature of this? It should be obvious what a 10 month service stint is really for. Macron continues to attempt to be as illegitimate as possible by boldfaced lying on a point that it’s frankly bizarre to lie about. Nobody joining is under any illusion they’ll be anything but a reservist.

Liberals are under no illusion as to how workers rights were run. That’s why they did the Taft Hartley act after all. Don’t go getting too uppity now.

Fuselage.

AI generated or algorithmically generated? Big difference.

That just increases the margin for smugglers. Even there the level of debt bondage and lack of payment for mules is terrible. Not much in the way of unions in criminal enterprises.

They vastly overestimate what low level gang members make off of drug slinging. They’re arguing that it’s economical to lead a gang and hold territory. Well yeah.