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> "As of early September 2022, 32 of France's 56 nuclear reactors were shut down" This is cherry picking. Look at the 10 years, or even lifetime, average availability. It's 90 or 9…

> one of the plant regularly leaks radioactive material Please share numbers demonstration health hazards. For ex, bananas are radioactive. Should we outlaw bananas? > rivers are g…

Nice auto pilot! Very basic, but works well enough. In the real world, you would derive physics equations (acceleration -> velocity -> position), add constraints and then solve eve…

Please look at yearly averages to avoid cherry picking. Maintenance is planned every autumn to make sure that all the nuclear plants work when they are needed, ie. during winter.

It is not exactly increasing enrichment capacity, it seems it's more complicated than than. From https://twitter.com/TristanKamin/status/1579828412474351616 , "UTS" is basically a …

> because of massive defects or barely producing due to a lack of cooling water This is false, and not the reason for the (currently) low load factor of nuclear. Most reactors are …

> nuclear is demonstrably not working well You are jumping to this conclusion way to fast. First, you are cherry picking: you should look at the yearly load factor, not a random da…

Small precision, because the title of the article is wrong: JWST is a joint NASA–ESA–CSA project and is actually launched by ESA.

Hey! Jumping in, because I'm learning German: do you have other suggestions appart from MaiLab?

TL;DR: eating 1 kg of phosphogypsum each day yields 36 mSv/year. Conclusion: very very far from life-threatening ; nobody is going to die or get cancer because of this. Oh God. Thi…

This sounds very illegal. From what I know, in France the notice period is 1 month if it is "meublé", or 3 months if the appartment is empty. Edit: actually, I just checked and tha…

For anyone in Germany (or any country which is blocked by this website), here is the raw html. Save it and open it with your favorite web browser :) http://paste.awesom.eu/Y36k

> Afaik originally the life-span for most reactors of that kind was 40 years That's a lie, or at least an unprecise statement, mostly shared by the anti-nuclear who are looking for…

The original data seems to be available at [^1] but I dont see any spike around the 22-23 of June ... Let's wait to know more before saying anything stupid (looking at you Greenpea…

I am a (aerospace) software engineer. I you wonder what trajectory the Apollo missions followed to go to the Moon, you can read my article about it: https://blog.nodraak.fr/2019/06…

While I dont think it is specific to a region, it is probably specific to an age: verlan is quite used among late teens / young adults, while Javanais is more used by childs / youn…

Other French slang: Javanais https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanais

To save other people a clic: "Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light." ht…

Indeed, sorry. I focused on "higher up" while the important part was "gravity well"

It's not only about altitude ( going to space is easy), it's also about horizontal velocity ( staying in space is hard: 8 km/sec is a lot). I dont recall the exact number, but I th…

Would not be able to exactly explain the features and differences, but https://mitmproxy.org/ is a similar project you might be interested in.