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[devodave]

Here is our waste. It's High Level Waste from the only commercial spent nuclear fuel reprocessing facility to operate in the US. That waste has been vitrified and poured into stainless steel canisters and sealed with a welded lid. Five sealed canisters are placed into a stainless steel canister which is also sealed with a welded lid. Each larger canister is currently stored in a steel-lined concrete cask. All of this is awaiting a suitable disposal facility where it can be stored for eternity. It would be pretty difficult for someone to get to it!

[thingmon]

Did they ever open Yucca Mt?

[devodave]

No, Yucca is still a no starter. When I reviewed the proposed documentation that was to be for license application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commision, the underground emplacements were going to require over 75% of the worlds supply of titanium. Futures on that would have paid out big money!

[devodave]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by devodave

Are you associated with that pic or is it random from the Internet?

If you are associated with it, what's the story with the car. It looks like the beginnings of something very cool.

[GH85Carrera]

Accountant Sheilah Ablett operates a Burroughs E101 Electronic Computer at the British Institute of Management in London (December 4, 1956). Also known as the "Baby Brain," this $40,000 machine originally built by Electrodata in 1954 was designed mainly for engineering and scientific applications but also targeted at the bookkeeping and accounting markets, filling the gap between the low-priced calculators and expensive, high-end computers. It was a desk sized machine programmed by inserting a number of small metal pins into eight 10×38 cm removable pinboard units in a way that may have inspired Hasbro's Lite-Brite™ toy! The pins are dropped thru the marked holes in 16-row paper templates, these templates providing permanent program storage. Instructions may also be read from a 20cps punched paper tape input unit. Numerical input (Decimal numbers stored as 12 digits plus sign) was via an 11-column keyboard based on the Burroughs Sensimatic-20 bookkeeping machine, it had 220 words of internal data storage on magnetic drum, 29 single-address instructions, 128 program steps, 2 automatic address-modification counters with programmed limits, unconditional and 2 conditional transfer instructions. The speed of the E101 was 20 additions/sec and 4 multiplications/sec and the machine consumed 3000 watts of power using 163 vacuum tubes and 1,500 diodes.




Discover the Eulagisca Gigantea, a strange-looking creature found in Antarctica with a glittering golden mane that makes it look like it's from another planet. Scientists are studying this unique crustacean to learn more about its role in the delicate ecosystem of Antarctica

[devodave]

Originally Posted by masraum

Are you associated with that pic or is it random from the Internet?

If you are associated with it, what's the story with the car. It looks like the beginnings of something very cool.

It's a recreation of the Jappic racer. The original set a record at Brooklands back in 1925. I saw an article about cyclecarts and thought that it a great inspiration for my own interpretation. Just have to get a few projects complete and out the way first! The original, as well as this full-size recreation, is powered by a 350cc JAP motorcycle engine that were produced 100 years ago. I have more photos, but they are too large to upload. If interested, the builder of the recreation has a great set of photos at the link below.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125618686@N06/albums/72157678521632008

[masraum]

Originally Posted by devodave

It's a recreation of the Jappic racer. The original set a record at Brooklands back in 1925. I saw an article about cyclecarts and thought that it a great inspiration for my own interpretation. Just have to get a few projects complete and out the way first! The original, as well as this full-size recreation, is powered by a 350cc JAP motorcycle engine that were produced 100 years ago. I have more photos, but they are too large to upload. If interested, the builder of the recreation has a great set of photos at the link below.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/125618686@N06/albums/72157678521632008

That's really fantastic! Thanks for posting!

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by devodave

I think this is Adrian Ward's car, he was an ex-F1 technician and workshop technician at Oxford Brooks University looking after their extensive motorsport test lab cars

[devodave]

Captain, yes it is Adrian Ward's car. My interpretation will be smaller of course and powered by a Honda or Harbor Freight 6.5 hp engine. Some of these cyclecarts can be pretty complicated, but it looks like great fun. Plus, as far as racing goes, should be pretty cheap!



There was a thread on these sometime back, but I wasn't able to find it using Search.

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by devodave

No, Yucca is still a no starter. When I reviewed the proposed documentation that was to be for license application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commision, the underground emplacements were going to require over 75% of the worlds supply of titanium. Futures on that would have paid out big money!

I recall the likely miles of Ti "roofing" for the tunnels - once they figured out that it couldn't be a "geologic" repository they figured that they could engineer their way around it. The costs would have been beyond astronomical. Truly just a warehouse with a few guards sitting on stools 24/7 for the next few thousand years would have been cheaper.

An interesting point of view was delivered years ago at the (2000?) Plutonium Futures conference in Los Alamos/Santa Fe. For some attendees (former USSR scientists) they had never been out of their country. A few 'mericans piped up to say that they should just bury their stuff in the interest of nonproliferation. Wow did that cause a scene! We got more than a few tirades in Russian and English of how much treasure was spent on that material and NFW are they just going to put it in the ground.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by mjohnson

I recall the likely miles of Ti "roofing" for the tunnels - once they figured out that it couldn't be a "geologic" repository they figured that they could engineer their way around it. The costs would have been beyond astronomical. Truly just a warehouse with a few guards sitting on stools 24/7 for the next few thousand years would have been cheaper.

An interesting point of view was delivered years ago at the (2000?) Plutonium Futures conference in Los Alamos/Santa Fe. For some attendees (former USSR scientists) they had never been out of their country. A few 'mericans piped up to say that they should just bury their stuff in the interest of nonproliferation. Wow did that cause a scene! We got more than a few tirades in Russian and English of how much treasure was spent on that material and NFW are they just going to put it in the ground.

You guys need to start a separate thread for this sort of stuff, it's very interesting for us engineery/sciency minded folks that don't normally get much of a view into that world.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by devodave

Captain, yes it is Adrian Ward's car. My interpretation will be smaller of course and powered by a Honda or Harbor Freight 6.5 hp engine. Some of these cyclecarts can be pretty complicated, but it looks like great fun. Plus, as far as racing goes, should be pretty cheap!



There was a thread on these sometime back, but I wasn't able to find it using Search.

Are there folks/places where these race?

I love the idea of old, no aero, open wheel cars, whether it be something like a Lotus/Caterham 7 or one of the old GP cars. This looks really cool, and seems like it could be great fun.

[devodave]

Why yes, yes there is! If you live in Washington, or Utah, you are closer to some of the bigger events, where there are competitors from all over the globe! Try these websites for more details. The premise is to fashion your car after an vintage (i.e. 1910-1920 era), but the rules are somewhat loose.

https://cyclekarts.com/

https://www.cyclekartclub.com/forum/cyclekart-tech-forum.2/

[porsche930dude]

[Racerbvd]

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by masraum

You guys need to start a separate thread for this sort of stuff, it's very interesting for us engineery/sciency minded folks that don't normally get much of a view into that world.

Oh lordy do I have a few stories. Best for us was mrs mjohnson spilling water on russia's goddess/grandmother of plutonium metallurgy. (lidya timofeva) Laughs were had, and they still exchange cards 20+y later.

[GH85Carrera]

Route 66 climbs into the Black Mountains west of Kingman, Arizona where N.R. Dunton ran a pipe to a spring two miles away and established Cool Springs in 1926. In 1936, James and Mary Walker took over and “rocked” the main building. Mary wed Floyd Slidell in 1939 after James left. The business thrived until the new highway opened in 1952.
After Mary left, Floyd ran the dying business with his niece and her husband. Cool Springs became a poultry operation called the Chicken Ranch. It was abandoned in 1964 and then burned down. Cool Springs was partly rebuilt in 1991 to be blown up for the film Universal Soldier. Ed Leuchtner bought it in 2002 and resurrected the landmark.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

My dad had a one wheel trailer.

Can you find the 4 icons in the Bizarro cartoon indicated by the no. 4 beside the signature?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Zeke

My dad had a one wheel trailer.

Can you find the 4 icons in the Bizarro cartoon indicated by the no. 4 beside the signature?

I'm not sure what you're talking about. "one wheel trailer"? 4 icons?

I' going with photos of the shoe and rabbit, the cup with the crown logo and the ball on the floor next to the recliner. But I only went with those because they seemed odd and out of place.

Interesting, I've never seen such a thing.