From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 26/11/2025 8:45 pm, Gerhard Hoffmann wrote:   
   > Am 26.11.25 um 09:12 schrieb Tom Del Rosso:   
   >> Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Gold was a good thing to buy .. not sure where it will go now with a   
   >>> nutcase as US precedent. US debt was decreasing?   
   >>   
   >> And yet, more competent than most.   
   >   
   > That's an insult to most.   
   >   
   >>> Shiny things do sell for high prices at times.   
   >>> 'Diamonds last forever' was it not?   
   >>   
   >> No, graphite is forever. Lower thermodynamic constant.   
   >   
   > unless it happens to burn like the moderator in Chernobyl.   
      
   You may be thinking of Windscale   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire   
      
   The graphite moderator accumulated Wigner energy which had to be   
   annealed out, and one annealing cycle went too far, igniting the graphite.   
      
   Chernobyl was also graphite moderated reactor, and the graphite did   
   eventually catch fire, but it was more of a secondary effect of an   
   "uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction, leading to a steam and hydrogen   
   explosion, large fire, and subsequent core meltdown."   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
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