I worked on Friday to count the votes in the local elections. More out of interest rather than earning any money. Although it did pay well. It was great to see how rigorous the counting of votes is and the systems in place to prevent fraud.
We were being watched by cameras and representatives of the local parties (including candidates) all the time. It gave me pleasure to see every conservative councillor except 1 lose their seat locally. When I questioned them why my local conservative MP had blocked me on twitter, refused to respond to emails and refused to see me at her surgery, they went very quiet.
A friend of mine put his name forward as a councillor for the Lib Dems more as a joke than being serious and he won.
MSR reactors (melted salt reactors) unfortunately have never been built yet (except for test in 1954) and have 2 big problems: 700 degrees C hot saltwater - no valves have yet been able to accommodate that AND the usual nuclear waste problem although only for 50 generations not 1000 of years...
I need to revisit the two Danish companies I know of who are working in this space. The beauty of one was that they used nuclear waste to start the reaction in the first place.
I worked on Friday to count the votes in the local elections. More out of interest rather than earning any money. Although it did pay well. It was great to see how rigorous the counting of votes is and the systems in place to prevent fraud.
We were being watched by cameras and representatives of the local parties (including candidates) all the time. It gave me pleasure to see every conservative councillor except 1 lose their seat locally. When I questioned them why my local conservative MP had blocked me on twitter, refused to respond to emails and refused to see me at her surgery, they went very quiet.
A friend of mine put his name forward as a councillor for the Lib Dems more as a joke than being serious and he won.
The right to vote is going to be so fundamental and never tested more in the decades to come as climate tragedy over tragedy begin to unfold.
MSR reactors (melted salt reactors) unfortunately have never been built yet (except for test in 1954) and have 2 big problems: 700 degrees C hot saltwater - no valves have yet been able to accommodate that AND the usual nuclear waste problem although only for 50 generations not 1000 of years...
I need to revisit the two Danish companies I know of who are working in this space. The beauty of one was that they used nuclear waste to start the reaction in the first place.