They seem to take much, much longer now.
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From the same article, it’s not just Russia and China…
In 2022, NASA announced it was cooperating with the US Department of Energy to select “concept proposals” for a nuclear power system “that could be ready to launch by the end of the decade.”
Not mentioned: Are they talking about RTGs (sub-critical, small fuel mass, etc)? The kind that already go into space? Or something bigger and trickier and more inherently risky?
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Yes. I read articles before I post them, not just the headlines.
The bit about NASA is just filler and pretty much useless as it doesn’t, as you point out, differentiate between RPGs and other ways of nuclear-based power generation.
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Roskosmos has neither the resources nor the competence to do anything like this.
The Chinese might, but if they do, why would they let Russians in on it?
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The Oppenheimer story that won’t win Oscars
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Sooo, they’re basically saying the mutations are too extreme, and the worms with more resilient DNA keep on trucking?
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Can’t access the full paper, but the abstract reads like they didn’t find any difference between worms from Chernobyl and worms from elsewhere:
Which is probably a good data point to have, and publishing unexciting results helps to reduce systemic publication bias. But whoever came up with that news headline must have been operating on autopilot and didn’t pay attention to anything the scientists said except for “Chernobyl” and “worms”.
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Russia says it is considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon with China
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Russia says it is considering putting a nuclear power plant on the moon with China
Dammit won’t somebody think of Praxis!
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For anyone unfamiliar with BAE, it’s an industry term - Billions Above Estimate.
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So Australia hasn’t found a romantic partner? I was kind of happy for them.
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Sounds like their budget, at least, is going to get fucked.
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Scott Morrison: a bit like Boris Johnson, only more theocratically minded, and more autocratically controlling, and not remotely as well educated, and not nearly as smart, and not even a little bit competent, and not as charismatic, and less of a feminist, and with a worse work ethic, and not as humble, and with neater hair.
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