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Feranmicharles:
Jesus never cursed


Rather,He'd pray.


Modified: to those of you referring to the fig tree yeah jesus cursed the tree,cos it didnt bring out fruit while he's hungry,besides it a tree

What's your point now... Didn't Jesus cause the fig tree? Yes or no...

kokoA:
Na wah o.. Malaria don start to kill to

My dear.... Try go hospital here and complain malaria... They will not just arrest you.. You may not see the day sun again in a very near future

POPdecorator:
Yes dat's gud
i lov change

He could have left politics and allow a young blood to stair Nigeria.... Nigerians that is not creating job. what retirement policy do we have ? ... This is not job creation for crying out loud... Soon Nigeria will understand that this PMB has nothing to offer

This country Nigeria must be crazy.... What's this .... Do this people this our physics world Is for marine and all that..... Nuclear materials are no jokes that you put primary six school cert holders to ..... We better stop saving cost and do the needful

@OP you said it all.....

Personally I don't hate PMB for any dam reason but i think. Am quite exposed for some old man to use my brain like most Nigerians are been used....

APC is been a house built on lies and falsehood.... They find it easy to talk trash knowing quite sure that average Nigerian are way too gullible.....

You can not give what you don't have ... It's only on Africa can people make campaign promises like PMB and co did and they got a vote.... We took ourselves back to a decade



All the time APC speaks of how PMB will provide 24/7 electricity.... PMB forgot that power generation, transmission and distribution are not the same.....


Nigerians at a point will take responsibility of the vote went wrong when the time is here

xpac01:
Change is everywhere. Our refineries that were held stale by Obasanjo and PDP cabals for 16yrs.
Baba noni.

Your Baba has nothing to do with the.... It hS been a work which even some families that have homes on pipeline was ask to leave with compensation.... So stop this false alarm .... GEJ had better plans for the nation ... Though he was fucking slow .... Give credit to GEJ

homerac7:
Yes sir! South Africa has nuclear plants. Congo DR has an old nuclear plant which I'm not sure of the state. I'm not sure about Egypt, but I will go through my library and confirm to you later. As matter of dact, Nigeria Energy Commission has a research nuclear power plant in Kaduna (?) which has been working for years.

Oh! I'm pleased my posts was found so appealing sir.

Regards.

Am an industrial physicist (nuclear physicist) blessed to have touched nuclear rods in different nuclear facilities around the world .


I can see what Nigerians need is just information and awareness....... Ignorance is really on the high side.... Am pleased we are thinking future though I have fear of the northern brothers and what their uneducated mind can lead them into in regards to this proposed facilities

This is a welcome development for Nigeria though no credits to PMB cause he knows nothing about this project as I have followed for a while now but one fear I have Is the radical nature of or brothers in the north?

A short break down on how the facility sets up below:

Power is measured in watts or kilowatts (1,000 watts) or megawatts (one million watts. An electric generator is rated in watts. A large nuclear power plant has a power of 1,000 megawatts (or one gigawatt). If a one kilowatt generator runs for an hour, it produces a kilowatt-hour of electric energy.

The amount of energy handled by humanity is still small compared to the amount of energy in the sunlight that strikes the earth. It's about one part in 50,000.


Energy is conserved. It can be transformed among various forms, (e.g. mechanical, electrical, chemical, heat) but the total remains the same. In each transformation, some of the energy becomes unusable, usually in the form of heat.


All matter is composed of elements. The important elements for our discussion of nuclear energy are uranium, plutonium, carbon and hydrogen. Uranium and plutonium are involved in nuclear energy production, and carbon and hydrogen are the main elements in conventional fuels like coal, oil and natural gas.


An atom of an element consists of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. What element it is is determined by the number of protons in the nucleus, but the elements come in various isotopes, and the isotope is defined by the number of neutrons in the nucleus.

Matter takes part in two kinds of reactions involving atoms of different kinds - chemical reactions and nuclear reactions. Chemical reactions are common and re-arrange how the atoms are combined into molecules but never change what element an atom is - or even what isotope it is. The reactions involved in the production and use of non-nuclear fuels are all chemical reactions.
Nuclear reactions can change what element an atom is, occur on earth only under special conditions and involve something like ten million times the energy. Thus enormously more energy can be obtained from suitable nuclear reactions than from chemical reactions.



Uranium has 92 protons. Two isotopes are important. U-235 has an atomic mass of 235 and U-238 has an atomic mass of 238. Natural uranium as it comes from mines contains 140 times as much U-238 as U-235. Because the 235 is the total of protons and neutrons U-235 has 235 - 92 = 143 neutrons.


Plutonium has 94 protons. Its important isotopes are Pu-239, which is used in power plants and bombs, and Pu-240 which is ok in power plants but which is a nuisance for those making bombs out of plutonium. There is also Pu-238 which is not fissionable but emits alpha particles and thereby generates heat. The amount of heat produced is convenient for powering spacecraft systems. There is very little natural plutonium.


When an atom of U-238 absorbs a neutron in a nuclear reactor, it becomes U-239, which decays in a short time to Pu-239. If a Pu-239 atom stays in the reactor long enough, it absorbs another neutron and becomes an atom of Pu-240 if it doesn't fission.


When an atom of U-235 or plutonium absorbs a neutron it almost always fissions. Namely, it splits into two atoms of lighter elements and emits neutrons - on the average a bit more than two. The emitted neutrons can cause further fissions in a chain reaction. In a bomb the chain reaction is very fast; in a power reactor it is slow. The two fragments are emitted at high velocity, and when they are absorbed in the fuel rod a lot of heat is produced. This heat is what powers the nuclear power plant.


Separating the isotopes of elements is very expensive. There are big plants for separating U-235 from the U-238 in natural uranium. For nuclear reactors, it is economical to use uranium that has been enriched to contain 4 to 5 percent U-235 instead of the 0.7 percent U-235 of natural uranium. Bombs need over 90 percent U-235.


Separating Pu from U is not very expensive, and bombs are mostly made of Pu made from U in special reactors in which the Pu-239 is promptly removed. In ordinary power reactors, the Pu-239 gets contaminated with Pu-240. Separating Pu-240 from Pu-239 is very expensive.



Here are some facts about nuclear power plants.

Present nuclear power plants consume uranium (specifically U-235) as fuel. When the power plant is loaded with fuel, it can run for 18 months or 2 years before it has to be refuelled, a process that takes a month or two. As the power plant operators have become more experienced, they have learned to operate longer between refuellings and take a shorter time for refuelling.


When an atom of U-235 absorbs a neutron it fissions, i.e. it breaks up in parts. These parts consist mainly of two atoms of smaller elements and some neutrons.


When a reactor is operating, fission of an atom of U-235 generates on the average a bit more than two neutrons.


If each of two neutrons produced by a fission was absorbed by an atom of U-235 the number of fissions would double in a fraction of second and then double again and again. If this were allowed to continue, in a few seconds the reactor would be generating enough power to melt.


When the reactor is turned on, the multiplication of fissions is allowed to continue until the reactor is generating power at the desired rate. Then control rods that absorb neutrons are inserted until exactly one neutron from each fission causes another fission.


Because some of the neutrons caused by a fission are emitted from the fission products only after a delay of a minute or so, it is not difficult to control the power level of the reactor. Nevertheless, there are safety systems that will shut down the reactor if the power level gets too high or if the cooling water stops flowing.


The power to produce electricity comes from the fact that the two atoms produced by the fission of a U-235 atom fly off at high speed, but they don't get even an inch before they hit something and are stopped. Stopping converts their energy of motion into heat, and the reactor heats up. If the heat weren't taken away, the reactor would melt.


The heat from fission is taken up by water or steam pumped through the reactor. The hot steam goes through turbines connected to electric generators.


About 2/3 of the heat energy is lost, and is emitted to the atmosphere or to a body of water, a river or the ocean. This loss is a consequence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and applies to all power plants, nuclear or coal-burning.


If the highest temperature in the steam plant is T1 and the temperature at which heat is exhausted to the environment is T2, the fraction of the heat generated that can be turned into electricity is (T1 - T2)/T1. The fraction of the heat energy transformed into electric energy is called the efficiency of the power plant. For high efficiency T1 should be as high as possible and T2 as low as possible. How high T1 can be is determined by how high a temperature the materials of the reactor can be without softening. How low T2 can be is limited by the environment. Cold seawater gives a good T2.


After 18 months or two years, most of the U-235 in the fuel is used up, and the fuel rods consist mainly of the products of fission, which remain radioactive and continue to generate heat. The fuel rods are placed in large pools of water which takes the remaining heat. The fuel rods become less and less radioactive with time.


After the rods have cooled off for a while, they should be chemically reprocessed to extract left over uranium and some plutonium that has been produced. The left-over uranium and the plutonium can then be converted to more reactor fuel. The fission products can then be buried in stable rock formations

homerac7:
Aaaargh! Too much ignorance here !



Read again, it is a BOOT arrangement, meaning it will be built , owned, operated by the Russians before being transferred to Nigeria after a stipulated period.



Scientists don't maintain plants, technicians[b][/b] do.



1. I'm not sure of average rate at the moment, but nuclear plants are the costliest to set up among the popular energy plants. They don't come cheap. Consolation is that they produce the cheapest electricity of the lot.

2. Japan is shutting down because of its environmental risk profile I.e it is in an earthquake prone region, while Nigeria has a better environmental risk profile in that respect.

Other nations shutting down have better energy mix and older nuclear reactors/plants. Ours is new and based on newer and safer technology too.




It would have been a good thing for people of Daura, but nuclear plants are sited near large fresh water source for (tertiary) cooling of reactors. So that's why it is in Kogi (rivers Niger and Benue) and Akwa Ibom (Qua Oboe river).



No he will carry on with the national policy on energy mix and nuclear power generation. It is part of our national development programmes.



No sir. It is a national policy inducted under late president UMYA



Geregu is in Kogi state in Ebira (?) land. Calm down, it is a national asset. Stop reasoning like boko haram.



Read it again and see IAEA being involved. Building nuclear plants is not like buying Tiger or Elepaq generators. There are stringent statutory requirements and operational procedures to meet.



Hydro dams have their strong points, but they are not exactly environmental friendly and are highly susceptible to hydrological cycle and plenty of community related issues both upstream and downstream. Moreover, you need energy mix to improve your general reliability.



I pray and hope (and would lobby if I'm in such prime position)that one of the next sets planned will be sited between Imo river and Anambra river courses. You don't know what you are wishing away. Pls aclm down and atop reasoning like Boko Haram.



Many things go under project capital cost sir. You can't be sure until you see the breakdown. Most times, associated infrastructure, consultancy/supervision, and logistics make such costs swell especially in low developed environment like ours.



It is natural reaction to "hate" new ideas. Please calm down and adapt to change sir. Lol

Comparing Nigeria energy policy to Germany's is like comparing a poor man that has family of 12 and earning #18k minimum wage with Osun State ( :p ) and idle house wife to a senior manager in Schlumberger with a senior bank manager wife and two kids on choices of food: one has better options than the other.

I like to know you friend .... Am pleased to find few brains like you

Keneking:
Great

- 2016 is too far for licensing
- what is the role of Nigerian engineers and scientists
- I believe in this project because its coming from Buhari
- Since it's coming from Russia, I support the big dream
- Meanwhile can generators be banned

Sai Buhari

Not from buhari.... Check me up you will see when GEJ advocated for this.... I know silly Nigerians will give buhari credit for GEJ works....

izuch:
That old buffoon should go and rest, his jokes are no longer funny.

To an extent he is so right ..... The fear of united Africa is what worries the west.... Recently Nigeria is becoming a puppet and soon gay laws will be enforced in Naija...


Africa messed up when Gadafi got kicked in a bad way.... Where did it end up ... The best African economy died... Now home for ISIS...

I know the west ..... If Africans can see what Gadafi saw..... It was only a payback to the 7 sisters..

Try read the history of 7 sisters

hansad:
By infrastructure, north is hundred times more developed than Southeast and Southsouth.

Infrastructure in Kaduna or Kano alone surpasses what infrastructure that exists in the entire southeast.

Keep deceiving your sorry self

hansad:
A country with 28, oil wells in the South, but northern people own 24 of the wells.

Go tell the Prof. Tam David Wests of the Niger delta. David West hinself wouldn't even care if all the 28 oil wells belong to north, so long as a northern president appoints him a minister.

In 2005 or so when OBJ was eyeing Third Term, he sent Anenih to assemble southern politicians in Enugu to tell them that Nigeria's underdevelopment was caused by a phenomenon of oil proceeds being managed by people from areas - north - that do not produce oil.

Many from south fight against themselves, seek for their private pockets, while the north plans for overall good of the north

Tell me one Good the northern oligarch has done for the region or even the nation.... Can you compare the north and the SE on development?

hansad:
You are fooling JJC's. Oil must remain Nigeria's main source of income for decades to come.

Ok sir.... Go school first before calling me fool

hansad:
A country with 28, oil wells in the South, but northern people own 24 of the wells.

Go tell the Prof. Tam David Wests of the Niger delta. David West hinself wouldn't even care if all the 28 oil wells belong to north, so long as a northern president appoints him a minister.

Lol .... China just pulled out of our crude oil, Iran will start selling their stockpiles of crude from July if they reach a nuclear agreement with UN and that will totally makes the Nigeria and northern owned crude useless ... #hardtomecoming# Farmalert

bushdoc9919:
Forget nuclear power. Most people are opposed to nuclear power....including Southerners.

(I happen to think Nuclear power would work. But anytime I suggest it here.....people jump on me well well).

Plus....we do not have enough nuclear scientists.....and engineers.

And as far as I know...GEJ did not do much about nuclear power while in office.

Plus....the problem is that we do not believe in education....and yes that includes the South. Education is meant to solve problems....not to give you a white collar job. Remember that.

Lie .... Am a nuclear physicist .... I can tell you the GEJ did alot in that aspect but it was not his call .... Speaking about scientists we have more than enough.... I had my basic university in Nigeria ESUTECH... During my study year we are very few but 40% of us went abroad for Masters and doctorate degree ... Now I know about 7 of us who are Gods in different Nuclear facilities around the world ... am not speaking of FUTO or FUTA and other university in Nigeria.


During my study and journey... In Japan I meet 11 Nigerian who can make wonders with the rods... 4 are Yoruba , two benin guys and others are Igbos... I don't speak of the head of one classified reach technology in Russia that is Nija ... I met another 3 in Mexico.. infact the scientists is not the issue though I don't its easy to lure them home considering that they are treated like God by the government that now owns us, the issue is that we are not ready for such advancement cos we can't protect it



The people who oppose it ... Does so because of the fear of what harm it may cause if there is leak or damages....

It will take Japan 40years to clean the mess caused by the typhoon

pure2012soul:
A Nigerian even solved a 30year old maths equation at Takai Uni in Japan.
The tribe you mentioned has contributed nothing to the common wealth other than polio, bh and other forms of extremism. Am not expecting much from their rule sha

Aha .... I even forgot the list you mentioned... Few months before elections ... I was going to come to Nigeria with IDF pilot friend of mine .... Be told me that why is it that polio can not be eradicated from Nigeria.... I could not answer that question thanks to our northern brothers


Our problem is that we are so short sighted and perhaps run a short memory upstairs .... We forget to easily .... If not we all know our problem..... A country with 28 oil well, 24 managed by the north .... By a group that have the height level non literates.



If we must develop we must define an era for the North ... They have to go back to the drawing board ....

bushdoc9919:
Nigeria's problem is called Dutch disease.

Bigger than even GEJ or PMB or any past leader.

Dutch disease. Resource dependency.

Look at that list again. The top 20 nations have strong industries, and strong technical and scientific sectors. If we want to be there...we have to drop all the talk about oil....and focus on those aspects.

Brother yes you are right to some extent .... But let me tell you one thing ..... Do you know that GEJ all he can so we as a nation will be given a clearance by nuclear community to own a nuclear power plant?


Do you know why it stalled ... Yes its because of the radically nature of the north... Electricity could have a forgotten issue but imagine if we have full power nuclear plant and there is a crisis ?


We know how our northern brothers do their thing ... Maybe They vandalize a nuclear power plant without even knowing the repercussions.... I tell you 86% of Nigerian populace will be exposed and die finally ....


I put it to you that the north is a set back to this nation.... They need a total re- orientation ... If we are to function as a group

pure2012soul:
I beg to disagree. We are indeed in last place. With our resources, we have no business gloating for being ahead of the likes of Laos, Nepal, Chad and Bangladesh

Yes you so right ..... NIGERIA have great people around the world .... As a matter of fact a Delta state guy just got some technology that will help enhance the ability of an F35 fighter jet ... That will make it no ever match ..... Now if I begin to tell you what Nigerians are doing out there but what do our government do .... They made sure that the environment will never favour a layman.... A crippled Nigeria lady (Ibo) did a new banking software that turns the west mad in Ghana ... The list goes on but I ask this question


In this country Nigeria .... We have three basic tribe bah? Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba....

Igbos ..... A group that travels out of this country... Can do anything to survive and bring their innovation home

Yoruba .... A group that can as well travel out to find a greener pasture .... They may not often bring their innovative mind home but they represent to the fullest

Housa... A group that travels out of the country to only attend some prayers sponsored by the government .... 0% contributions to the state of Nigeria. Ruled for like ages yet can not give 1% to their region.... yet we trust them again to bring development this time around ....


We can never reach the height of south Africa if some people still preach that a woman don't have to go to school.... If some group still want to destroy western education but they still use phone to coordinate their attacks and yet phone are what the west brought us ....

We shall go down further.... Keep watching

pure2012soul:
How can they embrace family planning when they can rely on numerical superiority during elections? Have you forgotten the votes from Kano during the general elections?

Lol.... These people from the north don't add any meaningful contributions to the marriage called Nigeria .... We are lucky that we are not last.

muhammed10:
THATS THE LEGACY THE OTUOKE CLOWN HAD LEFT FOR THE US..JONATHAN YOU MUST BE PROBED.CLUELESS MAN..

At least he gave your useless tribe a nomadic school to know what family planning means.


Mumu ... With the north Nigeria will be a world power

unite4real:
Where are those middle east countries. Unless I see at least 2 in top 20, IDONTBILIVIT

Bro don't argue on baseless ground, Norway is the most developed...Qatar could be cute in few states but I tell you.... There are places you cant stay in Qatar.... So as the US...

ZeezaRapture:
See what Jonathan has caused. South Africa and Ghana above us.

Sharap my friend.... Why are you bent on showing your high level of craziness....


When the north were busy fighting western education what do they expect?

When the north are still bent on ignorance of family planning...what do you expect?

When people like PMB was busy saying that the fight against BH is fight against the north... What do you expect?

When BH was busy nuking the north what do you expect?

When girl child inequality is still the order of the day at the north of Nigeria .... Is GEJ there


You better thank God na 158 we dey cos if not that GEJ build normadic schools for the silly north ... We for be last like Laos

I have been to more than 18 countries in world and I can tell you this .... Our poor state of development is totally caused by the north ...... They ruled for like ever but never will they want to develop their region.

LeeCodeman:
I'm still mourning. How could we lose a match we could win so easily?

Accepted, you dont change a winning team, but since we were not playing well, conceding possession and playing some useless long balls against an opposition that has got players taller than us, why not make swift changes at the stroke of second half.

Bulbwa was a liability. We have Simon Moses and Yahaya on the bench. Awoniy was overwhelmed, at least try Iheanacho who has been trained by World Class coaches in the position. Sokari was so useless in the match, yet you did nothing when we had Matthew on the bench.

You brought in Isaac and there was no instruction for him and Awoniyi to swap position, albeit from time to time.

What was Nwakali doing on the field when we were chasing a goal down. Arghhhhhh

JESUS!!!...my week is now officially useless!

After the first game ... I called the coach out and pointed why African coaches are way behind the rest of the world while some guys here was mad with me ... Some said my comments were tribal insight.


We won the rest two games ... I told them that still ..the teams proves yo be the worst team in u-20 we ever had.

Fast forward to today.... We saw a coach with no plan ... We saw a team with no direction, we saw a coach who could do better in a meat market than in a football pitch.

When you study the opponent and found out the height difference... Did it occur to him that long balls would never do him any good?

Even if he want to play lone striker up there, Isaac is the better option, why keeping iheanacho at the bench with the yahaya of guy.... What's the point going to car racing with Volvo when you have a Ferrari in your garage...funny huh or did him the coach just find delight in loosing

German team was not that solid but our constant rush to push play helped them alot coupled with the useless keeper he kept on the post....

We can never move on as a country if we don't stop giving post and position to family and friends .. .... I maintain that the coach deserves a weep

pazienza:
Taa! Go and sit down. Here is not political section, so you lots should remember that and try a bit more to hide you tribal tendencies.

Manu got his team selection, formation and tactics wrong against Brazil. And then few individuals poor performance at decisive stages of the match compounded the issue, ie Enaholo was ridiculously poor, Muhammad or so was piss poor, Awoniyi missed key decisive goal chances.

But you all have conspired to place it all on Iheanachor head, with some of you insinuating that the team is playing better without him, as if to
say Iheanachor was the one that instructed Enaholo to be poor keeper that day and Awoniyi to be a wasteful frontman.

Iheanachor criticism has got to be reasonable, I can already see tribal hate and sentiments seeping into his criticism.

Imagine someone saying that his celebration style of kneeling down and pointing to the sky is a sign of arrogance. Ndi ara!

You were right about Brazil game.... manu got it wrong....
1. Playing with two strikers from start was not helpful know that his depth in midfield was nothing to speak of ..

2. Drafting iheanachor behind strikers was containing his game ... He can not play with space to run ..it more like underusing a Ferrari.... A natural DM should have been used ..

3... Formation was a crazy one , the keeper and the striker who missed alot . ... Though in the second game his link up play was better

Eshinwaju:
Being a member of ecowas.....does not mean we have lost control of our countries.... .....the whole reason behind Biafra is that Igbos can go n leave us alone in peace..... ....why therefore do they want to be part of what u left.....confused MOFOS....

CHILD

hakeem4:
lmao maybe you need to read better about Biafra

How many war museum have you visited around the world in your life time .... Do you think you know about Biafra...... We better respect ourselves in public sites like this and pray for our nation Nigeria cos if we eventually find ourselves into war again, all sides suffer so badly . ......

Advice: Don't always read poor stories about things in Nairaland.... Speak with veterans And don't listen to your father always for stories sometimes dads who hide under the shreds make up sweet stories for son

olaboy001:
A responsible man or active man can not be predict, as far as concern about his duty.
The way people think it may be differ from what he think.

This is simple as it can be ... These old men are holding us for nothing... You speak about active man.... Brother I put it to you that you can't teach me physics if you are a lawyer....

If buhari loves his father land.... If he was a governor at his 30s yet he want to rule at his 90s then why do Nigeria has the greatest number of youth graduates in Africa if not the world?

Thus these old fools knows how people in Africa thinks... They will come with bogus promises which can not be attained knowing we are quite gullible and operates in short memory frequency... GEJ was not fast but he could have liberated the so called giant of Africa from the locks of Godfathers... I also put it to you that every political office from executive to legislation level operates with blood line ideology...... ( just found out the osibanjo's wife was a granddaughter to Awolowo....... Good bloodline I guess...) note: The initial failed cos Johnathan was no good bloodline.

You can't preach CHANGE when the group APC are just a group of angry PDP members... Its more like in music with same rythm, same sound beat but different lyrics... What differs does it make ?

Imagine in a default African economy can someone tell me they will provide 3million jobs a year and people applauded and voted ... Even US and entire Europe join together can not create 3million jobs yearly considering the world state of economy.. .... Try that bogus promise here and you will suffer in pulling boots...

I wrote about how and why we can not have steady electricity irrespective of the bogus promises the saviour of Nigeria gave.... Some dude fought me here until I gave them a lecture on the structure of our power sector.... That's by the way ...though am waiting for the change...

If we can take away sentiments and understand that the future is not so bright for us and begin now to flush this old men out .. ...

persius555:
Its amazing that some nairalanders still cant get over GEJs govt. GEJ is past, let him be in the past. Nigeria must move on. If the man no go una go say e no go, now e don go, una dey say why e go. Chai, nigerians are the problem of nigeria. Even america seeks the assistance of the mexican govt in the fight againt drug smuggling. Like they say, two heads fares better than one.

Don't talk nonsense you don't know.... Stop watching YouTube news and reading cheap blogs you no go gree

joyblinks:
well thankGod they gave it to Rivers State if not, the whole land will be a forest by now or maybe be like Owerri express way

Are you bent on the fools direction or can't you ever learn?....


@op I confirm this as true... I shall upload some images and scripts from museum in UK

hakeem4:
When ever I hear Biafra I just laugh

Just saw your photo and your age.... So sorry are too tender to know you are a waste of sperm cell