A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down???

No, it activates receptors in the gut cells that let the water in.

Without this bit of sugar, water just passes through, without getting absorbed.

Well, i'd argue your statement should start with the word "yes" then. Sugar, is in fact making the medicine go down (absorbed). My interpretation is that obviously a rehydration solution is just very slightly salty water, the taste is not the problem. But the water running straight through you is. Maybe the phrase could be corrected in this case, "makes the medicine stay down". Hmm

I really hope you aren't serious. Safe dry-cask storage on site is already a fantastic solution.

How long do we have to store it on site? Does it take any maintenance? Is there any reason to be worried about people stumbling upon it and opening it up in the distant future where nobody can read or understand English anymore?

If its half life is so long that you're afraid people won't be speaking English anymore it means it's not that dangerous.

If it's half life is so long that you're afraid people won't be speaking English anymore that means it's not that dangerous.

I'm completely serious. It was done extensively during the 20th century and never became an environmental issue. Nuclear waste is a social problem, not a technical problem.

It hasn't stopped hackers though.

To be fair it stopped hackers for a while. Many people said Valorant did not have cheaters.

But nowdays the Valorant community complains about hackers almost as the CS community.

It's because nowadays cheats run on a secondary machine, often a Pi,so rootkits have less impacts.

at least they need to search more than the first cheat option on google.

Do you have a source for this?

Like I said I've been advised this by several psychiatrists. Who are otherwise pretty comfortable with drug use (one even gave mdma therapy). So it's not the usual 'boo drugs bad' thing.

I don't have sources beyond that but I'm sure they do. I'm just not really in the medical thing.

It's probably quite easy...

I think poster was commenting that humans lack the ability to stop radioactive decay/interactions. Not the power plant.

We do readily have the ability to insert all of the control rods at once, which achieves just that.

That limits more reactions from occurring. The uranium is still decaying

The comment I replied to said decay/interactions. Full control rod insertion stops all interactions, reducing the output power of the reactor by over 90% within typically two to five seconds, and only downhill from there.

You're right that the existing fuel continues to decay (and this produces some heat, which is why you need an operational reactor cooling system even if you've shut it down, in order to prevent a meltdown), but it doesn't produce enough heat to meaningfully produce any power (via a steam turbine), and thus it could be argued that you have successfully stopped the core of the reactor from doing its job faster than you can pick a lock.

Off hand I imagine red-teaming a nuclear power station wouldn't actually go this far; victory would end at demonstrating merely that you could have (e.g. by being in a position and possessing the requisite equipment to compromise a temperature or flow sensor in the cooling system, leading the reactor controller to conclude that the cooling system has failed, triggering an emergency SCRAM).

Still it's interesting to think about.

Never? It's already a solved problem.

Dry cask storage is very safe and effective.

Entropy is a bitch.

You're not special.

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And you have to disable them one at a time. Absolutely wild.