Whoa. Professor at Wittenburg University, Ohio is deducting points for not wearing a mask properly and taking if off to eat. Is this allowed @wittenberg?
EPRs – originally known as European Pressurised Water Reactors – are a type of Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR). The design of the UK EPRs that will be built at Hinkley Point C represents a major development on previous PWRs, making them amongst the safest and most efficient civil nuclear power generators ever designed.
The UK EPR design marks significant progress towards sustainability. It has been designed to use less uranium and produce almost a third less long-lived radioactive wastes compared with water reactors in operation today.
Bill Gates said Friday that the risks of severe disease from Covid-19 have “dramatically reduced” but another pandemic is all but certain.
Speaking to CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at Germany’s annual Munich Security Conference, Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said that a potential new pandemic would likely stem from a different pathogen to that of the coronavirus family.
But he added that advances in medical technology should help the world do a better job of fighting it — if investments are made now.
“We’ll have another pandemic. It will be a different pathogen next time,” Gates said.
The EPR is a third generation pressurised water reactor design. It has been designed and developed mainly by Framatome (part of Areva between 2001 and 2017) and Électricité de France (EDF) in France, and Siemens in Germany. In Europe this reactor design was called European Pressurised Reactor, and the internationalised name was Evolutionary Power Reactor, but it is now simply named EPR.
The first operational EPR unit was China’s Taishan 1, which started commercial operation in December 2018.[1] Taishan 2 started commercial operation in September 2019.[2] The first EPR unit to start construction, at Olkiluoto in Finland, achieved criticality on 21 December 2021.[3] It is expected to begin commercial operation in mid 2022, a delay of thirteen years. The second EPR unit to start construction, at Flamanville in France, is also facing a costly delay (to 2023).[4] Two units at Hinkley Point in the United Kingdom received final approval in September 2016 and are expected to begin operating in 2026.[5][6]
EDF has acknowledged severe difficulties in building the EPR design. In September 2015, EDF stated that the design of a “New Model” EPR was being worked on, which will be easier and cheaper to build.[7]
Romanian MEP @CristianTerhes absolutely mops the floor with PM @JustinTrudeau in Brussels this week over how he’s handling the Ottawa #FreedomConvoy2022 protests.
“He’s exactly like a tyrant, a dictator. He’s like Ceaușescu in Romania,” said Terhes.
PM endorses ban on female trans athletes
Scott Morrison has endorsed a ‘terrific’ bill that would exclude trans-women from playing single sex sports.
By SARAH ISON
The Hinkley Point C project may be delayed after defects were found at a similar reactor in China.
According to The Times, safety components at Hinkley may need to be redesigned following the discovery.
An investigation is ongoing into the cause of the problems with the plant in Taishan, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, which was shut down in August after reports of damage to fuel rods. These hold nuclear materials used to fuel the reactor.
It was first revealed in June that the US government had been assessing reports of a leak at the power station, with gas escaping after the coating on some of the fuel rods deteriorated.
The Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity, a French association created in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, has now said that a whistleblower reported that a design flaw in the reactor pressure vessel could be the cause of the Taishan problem.
An industry source told The Times that the investigation was likely to show that the pressure vessel was “demonstrably safe” but it might also show that design changes were needed.
The £22bn Hinkley Point C power plant currently has a scheduled date for starting electricity generation of June 2026. Construction is ongoing, with the world’s biggest crane, Big Carl, placing the steel ring onto the second reactor building earlier this month.
The design of Hinkley Point C will also be used for the proposed Sizewell C power station in Suffolk, which is planned but has not yet been approved.
University of Sussex nuclear expert Paul Dorfman said that if reports about the Taishan reactor are correct, “then it’s beginning to look like there’s a potential generic fault with the key safety mechanism of the EPR reactor design itself”.
He added: “If so, this is serious news for ongoing construction at Hinkley Point C and plans for Sizewell C.
“There’s a couple of ‘ifs’ there, but the thing with nuclear is the very limited scope for safety error. We’ve learnt, to our cost, if something goes wrong, picking up the pieces is costly in economic, environmental and human terms.”
A spokesman for EDF’s UK division said: “Inspection work on reactor one at Taishan is still under way. The cause of the issue with a number of fuel rods will not be known until the end of these studies and the findings will benefit future reactor operations, including those in Britain.
“Fuel performance issues are not unusual in nuclear operation and this issue does not pose a risk to people or the environment.”
The spokesman declined to comment on whether the issues at Taishan might delay the start-up of Hinkley Point C.
It is so very important that every freedom-loving citizen votes correctly. Explain to those who don’t understand the system, how to number the preferences.
The preferential voting system explained by Topher Field
After my earlier video explaining how preferential voting works in Australia, I’ve had lots of questions about WHY it exists at all!
Well there’s actually a good reason! It’s designed to solve a very real problem and once you understand the problem, the existence of preferential voting makes sense!
Our current crop of leaders aren’t the outcome of preferential voting so much as the outcome of electorate apathy. Other voting systems may alter some results at the margins, but without addressing the root cause, the outcome will largely be the same.
Getting more of the electorate engaged is hard, but.
Our current crop of leaders aren’t the outcome of preferential voting so much as the outcome of electorate apathy.
Nelson, that is true. It is the She’ll be right, attitude.
Apathy is a serious ailment that is not just limited to elections and the general public but can be seen everywhere. Even on blogs like this.
How to get others to see a problem and unite for a solution is very tough. My goal in creating the CatWiki was to create a place where information could easily be found to counter the myths and ignorance among the MSM-brainwashed. Specifically for the upcoming elections.
But getting Cats (with a few exceptions) to participate in building the wiki is near impossible. It is the SEW syndrome – Someone Else Will – not me.
The Healthy Indian Project (‘THIP’) appears to have started as a fitness and lifestyle site in 2018. Its CEO – Sudipta Sengupta – is a life-long marketing consultant from a small city (Gurgaon, Haryana) in India.
The group is a member of the high-profile Poynter network called the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), though a two separate audits of its membership reveal concerns about non-partisanship, transparency, and the organization’s finances with a particular focus on a grant from the U.S.-based search engine Google:
PM endorses ban on female trans athletes
Scott Morrison has endorsed a ‘terrific’ bill that would exclude trans-women from playing single sex sports.
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While I think female trans athletes will have a physical advantage I’m not sure but could this lead to banning any other types of athletes based on other characteristics?
Eg. non-vaccinated athletes or Catholic athletes or simply those of a different culture.
Banning one group of folks leads to banning of other groups because people in power can become corrupted. Maybe there is a better way to weed out the problem than “banning”.
The Bureau of Meteorology is warning of the possibilidty of life-threatening flash flooding as a storm brings intense rainfall to parts of South East Queensland, with 104mm dumped in one hour near Gympie.
If it’s flooded, forget the flame grilled whopper.
It is good he is ready to join again.
I only learned about his misfortune late via contacts.
Can’t even imagine how it feels, not ever having the same disaster happen to us.
Stocks fell Tuesday, as intensifying tensions between Russia and Ukraine dented market sentiment to start the week.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 482.57 points to 33,596.61, dragged down by an 8.9% loss in Home Depot. The Dow fell for its fourth straight session. The S&P 500 fell 1% to 4,304.76 and closed more than 10% from its record close, a technical correction. The Nasdaq Composite slipped 1.2% to 13,381.52. The U.S. stock market was closed Monday due to the Presidents’ Day holiday.
The major averages pared losses late in the trading day, however. At its session low, the Dow had lost more than 700 points.
Kyle Rittenhouse Announces Defamation LAWSUITS Against Corporate Media, Whoopi Goldberg, Cenk of YoungTurks, And Other Targets — “It is time for accountability”
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There’s a few media types here in Australia who he should also sue.
MP Fiona Martin said she and her staff were “shaken” after Simeon Boikov, a “self-declared agent of Russia” who produces YouTube videos as the “Aussie Cossack,” approached her meet-and-greet event in Cabarita Park on Monday morning with a cameraman and tried to prevent her from leaving so he could ask her questions.
Russia Mania!
Did the j’ismist recepticle just drop Fiona in the shit with the bolded quote? Simeon isn’t afraid of protecting his good self from this type of crap
Libs of Tik Tok
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Dow futures down 500 points.
NASDAQ was already 16 percent off its highs so that index could be in an official bear market soon.
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Israel will allow unvaccinated tourists with a PCR test into the country from March 1.
And Bill Gates is promising another pandemic will be arriving soon.
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Meanwhile, the Poms are putting in a new, controversial Chunk reactor:
Hinkley Point C
EPRs – originally known as European Pressurised Water Reactors – are a type of Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR). The design of the UK EPRs that will be built at Hinkley Point C represents a major development on previous PWRs, making them amongst the safest and most efficient civil nuclear power generators ever designed.
The UK EPR design marks significant progress towards sustainability. It has been designed to use less uranium and produce almost a third less long-lived radioactive wastes compared with water reactors in operation today.
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The media are complicit in the scam. They are happily swallowing health-related fiction from a guy who wrote software codes.
In 2019 – Before Covid, he spoke about the wonders of vaccines.
Now, when people have stopped being afraid of Covid, he says another pandemic is coming?
A revision to the reset agenda?
Bill Gates says Covid risks have ‘dramatically reduced’ but another pandemic is coming
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The EPR is a third generation pressurised water reactor design. It has been designed and developed mainly by Framatome (part of Areva between 2001 and 2017) and Électricité de France (EDF) in France, and Siemens in Germany. In Europe this reactor design was called European Pressurised Reactor, and the internationalised name was Evolutionary Power Reactor, but it is now simply named EPR.
The first operational EPR unit was China’s Taishan 1, which started commercial operation in December 2018.[1] Taishan 2 started commercial operation in September 2019.[2] The first EPR unit to start construction, at Olkiluoto in Finland, achieved criticality on 21 December 2021.[3] It is expected to begin commercial operation in mid 2022, a delay of thirteen years. The second EPR unit to start construction, at Flamanville in France, is also facing a costly delay (to 2023).[4] Two units at Hinkley Point in the United Kingdom received final approval in September 2016 and are expected to begin operating in 2026.[5][6]
EDF has acknowledged severe difficulties in building the EPR design. In September 2015, EDF stated that the design of a “New Model” EPR was being worked on, which will be easier and cheaper to build.[7]
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Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Windoze 12?
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A whiff of desperation in this one
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Hinkley Point C could be delayed by Chinese nuclear plant fault
The Hinkley Point C project may be delayed after defects were found at a similar reactor in China.
According to The Times, safety components at Hinkley may need to be redesigned following the discovery.
An investigation is ongoing into the cause of the problems with the plant in Taishan, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, which was shut down in August after reports of damage to fuel rods. These hold nuclear materials used to fuel the reactor.
It was first revealed in June that the US government had been assessing reports of a leak at the power station, with gas escaping after the coating on some of the fuel rods deteriorated.
The Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity, a French association created in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, has now said that a whistleblower reported that a design flaw in the reactor pressure vessel could be the cause of the Taishan problem.
An industry source told The Times that the investigation was likely to show that the pressure vessel was “demonstrably safe” but it might also show that design changes were needed.
The £22bn Hinkley Point C power plant currently has a scheduled date for starting electricity generation of June 2026. Construction is ongoing, with the world’s biggest crane, Big Carl, placing the steel ring onto the second reactor building earlier this month.
The design of Hinkley Point C will also be used for the proposed Sizewell C power station in Suffolk, which is planned but has not yet been approved.
University of Sussex nuclear expert Paul Dorfman said that if reports about the Taishan reactor are correct, “then it’s beginning to look like there’s a potential generic fault with the key safety mechanism of the EPR reactor design itself”.
He added: “If so, this is serious news for ongoing construction at Hinkley Point C and plans for Sizewell C.
“There’s a couple of ‘ifs’ there, but the thing with nuclear is the very limited scope for safety error. We’ve learnt, to our cost, if something goes wrong, picking up the pieces is costly in economic, environmental and human terms.”
A spokesman for EDF’s UK division said: “Inspection work on reactor one at Taishan is still under way. The cause of the issue with a number of fuel rods will not be known until the end of these studies and the findings will benefit future reactor operations, including those in Britain.
“Fuel performance issues are not unusual in nuclear operation and this issue does not pose a risk to people or the environment.”
The spokesman declined to comment on whether the issues at Taishan might delay the start-up of Hinkley Point C.
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Who’d’ve thunk Gates would be into planned release of a virus?
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It is so very important that every freedom-loving citizen votes correctly. Explain to those who don’t understand the system, how to number the preferences.
The preferential voting system explained by Topher Field
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Preferential Voting with Marbles!
How to stick it to the Major Parties this election!
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Why preferential voting exists
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Love ya mum!
Pink Floyd – Mother (1980-81) legendado
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Our current crop of leaders aren’t the outcome of preferential voting so much as the outcome of electorate apathy. Other voting systems may alter some results at the margins, but without addressing the root cause, the outcome will largely be the same.
Getting more of the electorate engaged is hard, but.
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#Newshub
Winston Peters’ Wellington protest visit following tense scenes | Newshub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aqNRaszkIs
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I’ve posted Topher’s videos on the main page so they may be viewed by others who don’t visit the Open Thread.
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Bonkers!
BLUE ANGELS Low and Loud Overhead Take Off Pass in El Centro Winter Training – 4K
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Nelson, that is true. It is the She’ll be right, attitude.
Apathy is a serious ailment that is not just limited to elections and the general public but can be seen everywhere. Even on blogs like this.
How to get others to see a problem and unite for a solution is very tough. My goal in creating the CatWiki was to create a place where information could easily be found to counter the myths and ignorance among the MSM-brainwashed. Specifically for the upcoming elections.
But getting Cats (with a few exceptions) to participate in building the wiki is near impossible. It is the SEW syndrome – Someone Else Will – not me.
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Break time
A little bit late …..
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Ultimate Food Hacks Compilation
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The Petersens Original (LIVE)
The Ring Song
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Talk Radio – Final monologue
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A Google-Funded ‘Fact Check’ Team
Appears to Be a Handful of Potentially Non-Existent Indians in an Impoverished Town Near Bangladesh.
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Energy news with the idiot boris and the senile creep leading the charge:
https://mailchi.mp/d7882ce8a985/bidens-looming-energy-crunch-187238?e=170323d89f
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PM endorses ban on female trans athletes
Scott Morrison has endorsed a ‘terrific’ bill that would exclude trans-women from playing single sex sports.
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While I think female trans athletes will have a physical advantage I’m not sure but could this lead to banning any other types of athletes based on other characteristics?
Eg. non-vaccinated athletes or Catholic athletes or simply those of a different culture.
Banning one group of folks leads to banning of other groups because people in power can become corrupted. Maybe there is a better way to weed out the problem than “banning”.
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Tucker: This is what the collapse of democracy looks like
Feb. 22, 2022 – 13:19 – Fox News host shreds light on Canada’s crackdown of the Freedom Convoy protesters on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6298431279001#sp=show-clips
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Interesting channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly/videos
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And:here is an interview with the channel owner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-8xFg0L0w
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Hey, Dude!
How ya been?
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Just took a glass to the wall…ear upon it. The Queen is still alive….she’ll be dead in the morning.
Termites…she is one tough lady. Pest controllers failed to reign her in. They have to pay the bill.
A few squirts of Termidor in the morning…maybe a few days from now.
You are dead, bitch.
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PJW
Well, this is awkward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KBkXitNHJM
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If it’s flooded, forget the flame grilled whopper.
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Sleep well.
Hans Zimmer – Chevaliers de Sangreal // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Live)
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Lame pics.
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Lurking pays off!
Hi Arky! Good to see you. 😀
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calli says:
February 23, 2022 at 6:37 am
It is good he is ready to join again.
I only learned about his misfortune late via contacts.
Can’t even imagine how it feels, not ever having the same disaster happen to us.
All the best Arky.
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Flagged??
Why?
What did I do this time? If I weren’t a paranoiac I’d say someone does not like me.
I hope it was a click by mistake, surely.
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Wasn’t me. Or if it was, t’were an accident.
Anyhoo, morning MarkA, morning Calli.
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Try again
https://youtu.be/sH0Qda32IKM
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And…morning TonyN. 🙂
Good times, good memories!
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calli says:
February 23, 2022 at 6:37 am
Lurking pays off!
Oh, you meant Arky poking his head in, not Mark’s barbecue accessories?
Apologies for misreading you! 😝
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Any reporting of Marks Lame Pics is only to ensure Adam does not miss them, I reckon.
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I think you’ll find cohenite is the only person to remove his pants when viewing lame pics.
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kaysee says:
February 22, 2022 at 2:43 pm
Kyle Rittenhouse Announces Defamation LAWSUITS
Kyle Rittenhouse Announces Defamation LAWSUITS Against Corporate Media, Whoopi Goldberg, Cenk of YoungTurks, And Other Targets — “It is time for accountability”
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There’s a few media types here in Australia who he should also sue.
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https://archive.ph/pImLt
Russia Mania!
Did the j’ismist recepticle just drop Fiona in the shit with the bolded quote? Simeon isn’t afraid of protecting his good self from this type of crap
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In these troubled times some books of faith to take comfort in:
Reverend Eugen’s Book about Sluts: tales of redemption and other forms of faith satisfaction
I found Jesus at Wal-Mart by Reverend Eddie Brumley. Plus other shopping tips
Enter me Lord and let me feel your mercy by the Reverend Mary Hinge
The Magus Chord Organ Big Book of Easy Funeral Hits: simple one finger grieve chord chart included
Fingering and Preying for the Lord by Reverend Loretta Fudge: an organist’s simple approach to faith ecstasy.
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Mr Bill Gates and Australia
Dr John Campbell
Dr Gates spruck
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What’s the Arkster been up to?
Rarely visit FagCat.
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mh says:
February 22, 2022 at 8:04 pm
#Newshub
Winston Peters’ Wellington protest visit following tense scenes | Newshub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aqNRaszkIs
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No black ninjas amongst the NZ police. Do they have the rotisserie gear that our Federal Police have in Canberra?
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kaysee says:
February 22, 2022 at 8:04 pm
I’ve posted Topher’s videos on the main page so they may be viewed by others who don’t visit the Open Thread.
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Thanks Kaysee, Topher’s explanation is correct.
I think that Labor