Reactor | Nation | Grid Connection | MW(th) | MW(e) | Decommissioned |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
EBR I | US | site only 1951-12-20 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 1964 |
Obninsk | USSR | 1954-06-27 | 30 | 6 | 2002 |
BORAX-III | US | 1955-07-17 | 6 | 2 | 1956 |
Calder Hall 1 * | UK | 1956-08-27 | 268 | 60 | 2003 |
SM-1 | US | 1957-04-29 | 10 | 2 | 1973 |
Vallecitos | US | 1957-10-19 | 30 | 5.3 | 1963 |
Shippingport | US | 1957-12-18 | 236 | 60 | 1982 |
Douglas Crockford
"The Better Parts" (2014)
https://vimeo.com/97419177
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo36MrBfTk4
- Proper tail calls
- Splat operator (rest and spread)
- Modules
My own point of departure could not be better illustrated than by a quotation from Descartes and the aspects I propose to examine might well be called Cartesian Economics. "Starting from the forms of knowledge most useful to life, instead of from that speculative philosophy taught in our schools, and knowing the force and processes of fire, the air, the stars and all the other bodies which surround us as distinctly as we know the different occupations of our own workmen, we shall be able to employ them in the same fashion and so render ourselves as the masters and possessors of nature and contribute to the perfection of the human life."
All forms of energy previously utilised by life, with one or two minor exceptions, as tidal energy and that of hot springs, were forms of the solar revenue. Wind-power, water-power and wood fuel are parts of the year-to-year revenue of sunshine no less than cereals and other animal foods. But when coal became king, th
I've seen a lot of essays claiming to explain why privacy is important even if you 'have nothing to hide'. They all fail because you manifestly don't need privacy unless you have something to hide.
The truth is, laws are written by ignorant mobs and we want to break them. We want to try marijuana, exceed the speed limit, rip DVDs we bought to an archival format and occasionally share them with friends, use incandescent bulbs because they provide better light and alternatives are provably no better for the environment, and fix our shower faucet without having to apply for a permit first.
Privacy is a natural foil to legislation run amok because it lets us break bad laws. It helps ensure that laws really do require the consent of the governed. There's even virtuous feedback, since lawmakers have enforcement budgets and need to appear effective.
So yes, I have something hide. If you need to see inside my house, it's a good sign the thing you're trying to prohibit isn't harmful enough to society to warrant t
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{ | |
"Name": "Eros", | |
"Author": "Conal Elliott", | |
"Status": "Experiment", | |
"Updated": "2007-11", | |
"Description": "functional programming with isomorphic GUI", | |
"URL": "http://conal.net/papers/Eros/" | |
}, | |
{ |
How long do nuclear reactors last?
Here are some that have been in service over 50 years:
reactor | site | first criticality |
---|---|---|
F-1 | Kurchatov Institute | 1946 |
NRU | Chalk River | 1957 |
UMRR | University of Missouri | 1961 |
HFIR | ORNL | 1965 |
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{ | |
"date": "1895-11-08", | |
"event": "X-rays produced with a cathode ray tube", | |
"people": "Wilhelm Röntgen" | |
}, | |
{ | |
"date": "1896-03-02", | |
"event": "Uranium is radioactive", | |
"people": "Henri Becquerel" |
Newest U.S. power reactors by construction start:
reactor | construction start | first criticality |
---|---|---|
Vogtle 3 | 2013-03-12 | 2023-03-06 |
Summer 2 | 2013-03-09 | |
Wolf Creek | 1977-05-31 | 1985-05-22 |
River Bend 1 | 1977-03-25 | 1985-10-31 |
Vogtle 2 | 1976-08-01 | 1989-03-28 |
Seakbrook 1 | 1976-07-07 | 1989-06-13 |
;; computes TE-optimal generators for a pair of vals | |
;; e.g. (generators '(1 2 4) '(0 -1 -4) '(2 3 5)) => (1201.397 504.348) | |
(define generators | |
(lambda (val1 val2 basis) | |
(let* ((square (lambda (x) (* x x))) | |
(log2 (lambda (x) (/ (log x) (log 2)))) | |
(mean (lambda (ls) (/ (apply + ls) (length ls)))) | |
(w1 (map / val1 (map log2 basis))) | |
(w2 (map / val2 (map log2 basis))) |