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No deaths from either. And with logic like that, I am surprised we didn't ban airplanes back in the day. Fukushima probably would not have happened if they were using Candu.

That sounds like a good way to do it. In Canada you can buy steel (or stainless) snap ties. They are little flat pieces of metal that have slots in the ends. They go through the forms and then you slide a steel bar through the slots to hold the forms together. The little tabs on the inside hold...

Did you know that you can hold a fuel pellet from a Candu reactor in your hand? They are little cylindrical objects that feel like a ceramic of some kind. After use in the reactor, they become about as radioactive as the original uranium ore in a few hundred years. This is much better than most...

I believe I said the jury was out on that: but that dome on the HPR1000 is designed to withstand the impact of a commercial jetliner, and the A380 must weigh around 600 tons or so. And there is second one made of concrete and stainless inside of that. That Chernobyl reactor had a dangerous...

Perhaps a picture would help. Now imagine replacing (1) with a structure like (9), which is pretty much what Chernobyl had. Although to be fair, (9) is probably better than what the Chernobyl had, since it is likely designed for the scenario that (10) flies apart.

The buildings (reinforced concrete domes, typically) built around western reactors are designed to withstand such an explosion. The reactor vessel itself is much smaller. Of course there is debate as to whether a proper containment building would have withstood that explosion, but if it had...

The house has the exact same tiles, which are not screwed down at all. Having said that, they do occasionally blow off in the wind.

There is a huge amount of oil in tar sands in Albert and other places, but it takes a large amount of energy to extract it. In Alberta they are planning to build nuclear reactors to generate the steam required to extract the oil. I am sure David Suzuki will have a bird. Of course the...

Yes, I will have to try that. The tiles are supposed to be fastened down, but I am fastening the eaves, the verges, and every 3rd row, which leaves the top 3 rows with screws. I think if I tile 3 rows down from the ridge, and leave the bottom row a little loose, then I will be able to put a tile...

There was no containment building as would be installed on any western-built reactor.

The short answer to this question is yes. I just moved here from Germany, where they pay over 30 cents per kWh for electricity, most of which is green tax. Meanwhile the media scared them into shutting their reactors after Fukushima, so they are replacing them with .... coal! To make matters...

It is hard to imagine a worse outcome then an out of control core exposed to the atmosphere in a large reactor, and basically all they did was dump sand on it. That reactor should not have been operating in the first place, it was a very dangerous design, it had no plan in case of an incident...

Sure, and they link how many cancers to sausage and salami? used to be they told us butter was bad, and that margarine was healthier. They take some study based on very thin evidence and large pile of assumptions, and then treat it as fact. The reporting about nuclear disasters in the power...

Agreed, but if something is to happen in the here and now, then fission is our only choice, and when we transition from fission to fusion later, the infrastructure would already be there. Can you imagine what our electrical grid would look like now if we had transitioned to nuclear power 30...

It takes a lot of radiation to kill you, and it is very difficult to determine if an exposure has "pushed you over the edge" so to speak, and you get cancer, so I am not sure if these numbers can really be known with any certainty. Greenpeace is an absolute disgrace for their anti-nuclear...

Nice video, I think I am going to make one of those inserts, the slot in my stock insert is way to wide, and my saw doesn't have a riving knife. A bit surprised his just sits there, mine is screwed down.

Thanks. Currently my dust extraction consists of one of these: coupled to a cyclone separator and one of those 25l white plastic buckets. I guess I am going to have to do something about that. It is not going to be up to the job when I eventually get a thickness planer.

That sounds like a plan. I was tiling bottom up in 5 tile widths, and figured to do the ridge tiles as I went along. However, this would likely take me some days to finish, and a lot of stop-start with the cement work, which is not ideal. Doing it the way you suggest would allow me to do the...

Got the first half of the roof tiled, and now will start on the other side. This means I will need to bed the verge and ridge tiles in cement. I was planning to do the verges on one side and the bed the ridge tiles as I go, because after tiling there won't be any easy way to get at them. Is this...

Fun fact, more people are killed by wind turbines every year, than are killed in the nuclear industry. Your argument is like airplanes. Sure if one crashes, which they still do, then hundreds of people die. And yet it is a statistical reality that you are safer traveling in a plane than almost...