Arnie Gundersen: Post Fukushima USA Nuclear Reactors Design Flaws to NRC 10/22/11
Post Fukushima: All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men… fairewinds.com Fairewinds’ Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen testifies to the NRC Petition Review Board detailing why the 23 BWR Mark 1 nuclear power plants should be shut down following the accidents at Fukushima. True wisdom means knowing when to modify something and knowing when to stop. Sometimes, all the King’s horses and all the King’s men should not try to put Humpty Dumpty together again. Archived webcast of Beyond Nuclear’s emergency enforcement petition to NRC on Mark 1s now available The archived webcast of Beyond Nuclear’s October 7th, 2011 NRC Petition Review Board meeting on its 10CFR2.206 emergency enforcement petition is now available. Beyond Nuclear was joined by numerous allies from various grassroots anti-nuclear groups who live in the shadows of General Electric Mark 1 boiling water reactors — identical twins to the design at Fukushima Daiichi Units 1 to 4. www.beyondnuclear.org excellent new source for Fukushima Updates fukushimaupdate.com *Note: Single radiation dose of 2000 millisieverts (200000 millirems) and above causes serious illness. See also exposure list below. Half-life of some radioactive elements [NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.] * Cesium-134 ~ 2 years * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days * Plutonium-239 ~ 24200 years * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.] * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days …
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Is it safe to post a design project on Kickstarter before getting a patent?
Question by Eric E: Is it safe to post a design project on Kickstarter before getting a patent?
I have designed a certain invention that I would like to patent soon but don’t have the funding. Would it be stupid to go on Kickstarter.com and post this project before I get legal rights to it so I could then get the proper funding to patent it?
Best answer:
Answer by ron_mexico
In the U.S., publication of your invention on a website will start a one-year clock in which to file for patent protection. After the one-year clock has past, you will lose any rights to the invention.
This one year grace period is limited to the U.S. and a few other countries. Most foreign countries have an absolute bar. That is, once you disclose your invention on a website, you will immediately lose any rights to your invention in those countries.
See the link below for more information.
http://www.ipr-helpdesk.org/documents/GracePeriodinventionLaw_0000004514_00.xml.html
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