asciilifeform: the heart of the matter is that these things were built by folks who simply did not believe in collapse even as a theoretical possibility.
asciilifeform: (laugh, but they depend on external current, which - in the event of interruption of the steam turbine, for whatever reason - is supplied with a diesel set)
asciilifeform: american reactors are still, for instance, built in such a way as to be helpless in the face of a total shortage of diesel
asciilifeform: they imagine an aucalypse where their coinz are now the only valuable thing testable with your teeth, and thereby True Money (tm)
asciilifeform: u.s. safety record of the final collapse period will quite likely make the su one look rather good in comparison.
asciilifeform: (then to have'em slowly leak into ground water somewhere)
asciilifeform: has to be ramped up soviet-style - with whiners told to go fuck a duck - rather than usg-style, where they somberly bury the spent rods in a coffin, with christian funeral
asciilifeform: the incentive for vendor to lie about this, is, obviously, there. but on other hand, if it functions as part of a semiconductor, it more or less ~has~ to be radiologically clean!
asciilifeform: 'The Air once threatened to expire. / "Oh help me, help, celestial Sire," / She cried with sadly clouded gaze; "I'm stupid, torpid, in a daze, / You always know a way, Papa, / Send me on cruises, to a spa, / sour milk is counseled for the skin... / If not -- I'll call the Devil in!" / The Lord, not to be shamed by Air, / Invented "sound massage" for her. / We've had since then the world that SCREAMS. / And Air just rolls in it
asciilifeform: 'A gloomy ass one morning said / Unto his mate of board and bed: / "I am so dumb, you are so dumb, / Let us seek death together, come!" / As it turned out (and often will), / The two are blithely living still.' (c. morgenstern, engl. transl. of w. arndt)
asciilifeform: The Supernode Lifestyle ! (TM) (R) (rpietilla)
asciilifeform: once we have hard peering (~never-disconnectable~, encrypted links between trunk nodes) this kind of thing will go away.
