Via today's Maggie's Farm, an interesting item on Udacity's "NanoDegree" training, which may change the shape of higher education for years to come.

Some of us are good with the keyboard...

What Do You Really Know?

The more I learn, the more I realize that a) I have so much more to see, because each thing is a key to unlock more learning, and b) most folks I know think that learning is work, and they avoid it.

I hope you will have some fun... The NIST site... Somebody had to have a constant for a Bohr magnetron...

Hey Rad, I'm checking out your site, thank you.

So - question for you - I just watched a documentary called 'Pandora's Gift' that interviewed greenies who have come around to demand more breeder reactors due to coal problems, solar problems, and wind farm problems.

Is it true the breeder reactors produce far less waste and are safer than the light water reactors we'd prefer everyone build (to eliminate nuke bomb production possibilities)?

Frankly if it's true I think we should build a couple dozen ...

Shoes.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx

Gog, no.
Breeder reactors simply produce more fissionable material. It is how this material is used – in pressurized water reactors or boiling water reactors that determines the level of risk to the public. It is the fission fragments, produced by the splitting of heavy isotopes, that produces the threat to the public. Although the physical volume of this material is very small, it's deadliness is real, even though overstated by the press.