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So. For a bit of fun. Skip this video to 29:57 on your phone, then cast it to the main TV in your living room, when you've got friends around.

Maybe a clean of the throttle body and AFM is required.

Recently bought a 57 plate 1.2 Clio Ripcurl. Despite being woefully slow, it's a great little car. It's comfortable and soft. Extremely quiet, too. Sometimes I have to look at the rev counter to make sure it's running! Getting 42mpg around town. I've only filled it up twice since I bought it a month ago. And the second fill up was 3 days ago. But there's an annoying problem with the throttle. If I'm stationary in traffic and I rev it, the revs fall too far and it stalls out. Anyone have an idea why that might happen? Thanks.

The Russians have commissioned their own Chernobyl series based on the "truth". That truth is, apparently, that a CIA operative intentionally caused the reactor to explode. Comrade Stalin would be proud.

Absolutely horrendous. 3 months!! Death should be a respite from suffering but they denied him that for the longest time. Until they could learn no more. It must be the most horrible way to die.

Learned about this nuclear disaster today. Didn't even know about it previously. Shocking display of total carelessness.

I'm a moronic Brexiteer and even I know, don't even think about nodding a car on finance.

They leave us for a place of eternal rest and peace. They never die. They live on for as long as we remember them. While we live, we should create a positive legacy that will continue in some capacity, in someone's heart and mind, when we die. He did that and more, many times over. A life well lived. He never just existed, as so many of us do. To merely exist is a true waste of life. Dylan Thomas' words spring to mind. Old men raging at the night for their tongues forked no lightning. They never left a mark, they lived unheard. As so many of us do. He left a mark. He was heard. He won't know the feeling of being a no one, to everyone. Rest in peace, Niki. Thanks for being with us.

Welcome to the forum. Congratulations on purchasing a car that will stay in your memory for as long as you live. Cars such as the 370Z are a dying breed, with their normally aspirated V6 and lack of gizmos "enhancing" your skills. Enjoy it! Lots of meets with the Z people on here. Tuning; only limited by budget. As I found out!

This is cool!!! This video is even better. So interesting.

Yeah I thought it might be classified. I worked for BAE in logistics a few years back. It was scary the amount of digging they do into your life. Past and present. Bank statements for the last 5 years, advanced criminal check. I got into hot water because I was self employed for 3 of that 5 years and couldn't (suitably) account for the money I had going in. I didn't keep accounts as i had an accountant friend who did it all for me. They had to verify that I was actually in the country for those 3 years and not abroad, training with Al Qaeda or ISIS and that the money wasn't coming from them. Anyway, yeah, you do have to sign your life away. How do pipes etc differ from, say, a fossil fuel power station? I know how they transfer heat to a tank of water by running a pipe with extremely hot high pressure water through another tank with water. Then that water boils and drives the turbine and that's the heat exchanger. And the water Carrie's on looping, heating and cooling. Are the pipes shielded? How is the radiation taken away, if it is taken away? All that water coming directly from the core. The steam must be so radioactive. The turbine blades, too. I've often wondered why power plants aren't built underground or into a mountain. It's self contained then. Just need a local water supply like, a lake or the sea. Mine further cavities for storage of spent rods. I've probably forgotten something that makes underground power plants impossible. But it would also take away the immediate catastrophic effects that happened in Chernobyl as it would be shut off from the atmosphere. Just evacuate and seal it.

I did. 3 times. No reply. I guess the scheme wasn't great. I'm really missing my Z, guys. Very much. I had bought an Audi A4 2.0 TDI on 55 plate. Lordy. It was spotless. Beautiful. 2 owners. Decent grunt from the 140bhp. But, he must have seen me coming. Oil pump failure, which is a common fault on the 2.0TDI. The pump is built into the engine at the bottom and the shaft gets worn down. Oil pressure light comes on. Forums say, by that point, your turbo has probably suffered damage too. I gave £1300 for it thinking it would be a cheap, comfortable stop gap until I come to get another beast of a car. But, injectors failed, too. Some glow plugs needed changing. I cut it loose to a friend who owns a garage for £500. Now, am in a Renault Clio 1.2 Ripcurl. Black. 79k miles 2 owners since new No bumps, clunks, rattles, or otherwise unpleasant sounds. It is extremely quiet. I can't hear or feel the engine when it's on and idling. Very nice. Getting an indicated 42mpg round town. Motorways, it doesn't really like. 60mph in 5th isn't a good spot for it. 70mph is even worse. It likes 50mph in 5th. I drive it very gently. I want this car to allow me to save money so I can buy a weekend warrior next summer. I will have a very healthy budget then. Maybe, 25-30k and there's many a performance bargain to be had in that price range. But, I am really liking the 370Z more and more. I never used to appreciate its looks as much as the 350Z. But now I feel different, because the 370Z looks more and more like an older Z. A 240Z. I'd like one in white or gunmetal. Black a 3rd win and the black edition equal. Hear the 370 engine is a much better engine than the DE. For boost, too. Hmmn will I own another boosted Z?! Clio is my 3rd Clio. I had a brand spanker in 2001. It was a Renault Clio 1.2 Sport. My goodness, that was a waste of money. £14K on finance. Everything broke on it. Especially electrics. Gearbox. The wings were plastic. I remember my friend leaned on one, it cracked. So I had to buy the special wing and special paint to repair it. I had 3 years free insurance with it, which was a huge bonus. Probably saved £7500. Second clio I bought two years ago. 1.5DCi. Much more oomph than the 1.2 Petrol Clio. It had the ability to pootle round town and also go on the motorway and even overtake. The car was £1000 on a 57 plate. Neighbour wrote it of. I live on a steep hill, he had a works van. Left it parked with handbrake only. Never in gear. Cae snapped. Rolled right into side of clio. Obliterated. Quite lucky really that I parked my car there right at the bottom.the bottom so the fan rolled into the side. There was a garden on the other side of it, where kids play. So, my car made sure the van didn't plow through the hedge and into the garden. Anyway, was a write off. I got £1750 from insurance! The only bad thing about this Clio is the horrendous radio reception.

Can you talk about it, or is what you were doing classified? I'd be interested in learning about anything you could elaborate on. Are you tempted by Chernobyl trip?

Just confirmed what I already thought. There wouldn't and couldn't have been a thermonuclear explosion. The producers deliberately added it to the plot to exaggerate the sense of immediate danger. Article written today: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-hbo-whats-true-myths-2019-5

I'm sure I saw your old Nismo Z up here the other day!

That's awesome. What field are you in? I went to Heysham a couple of years ago with my university. Picture this; All the men in my class were devout, secular Muslims. So, we rock up to the security, me sweating bullets and the other lads all talking amongst themselves in Urdu. Lol. Well, the memory is much funnier than I make it sound. I was praying "no one say/shout Allahu Akbar!!". Anyway, all was well. Would you be interested in going to Chernobyl, Silverthorn? I think Dan is interested, I'm definitely interested,

To my knowledge I don't think there's a set of circumstances that would result in a thermonuclear explosion. But I'd be interested to learn how, if it was possible. I think the RBMK reactors design faults lead to "hot spots" in the core and they couldn't be detected and there would be a huge build up of heat and water would boil dry. In the heat exchanger of a reactor, the water is under high pressure to stop it boiling. But that failed in Chernobyl reactor 4 and resulted in the huge steam explosion. Also, when you aren't using a moderator to slow neutron flux, it's much harder for the atoms to collide with another. I think in a bomb they use various materials to bounce neutrons inwards, improving the chances and rate of fission. Means you can use a smaller amount of uranium or plutonium. I think some use depleted uranium as a neutron blocker. It's just, I can't see how all those very specific set of events would happen by accident. Thorium reactors and salt reactors are the future. Salt reactors are so much safer and greener than traditional nuclear power. Much less fuel needed. I need to read up more on thorium. India have thorium reactors. Or A reactor. Also, India is where most of the worlds thorium is. So I don't think any countries could be bothered trying to work out a deal with India to get access. Also, I'm not sure but, I think thorium reactors don't produce weapons grade uranium or plutonium as a byproduct. Perhaps that's another reason why the main superpowers aren't overly interested in salt or thorium reactors. Either way, nuclear power is much safer today. I sure can waffle. Let me know when you remember the name of that book.

I am enjoying it. Apart from one thing. They obviously researched it thoroughly but, in one episode Ulana says that if the core melted through to the water tanks below and they were full of water, it would result in a 4 megaton thermonuclear explosion. They don't just happen. You have to have a very particular set of circumstances for a nuclear explosion, let alone a thermonuclear explosion. They'd never just happen as a byproduct. Can you imagine that, if thermonuclear explosions were a possibility simply by having all the elements in place? Power plants would have to be so well defended from air strikes and also built many miles away from any significant populations. But, as it is, because you can't detonate a nuclear reactor, the only dangers from a powerplant is a leak of radiation and an enemy getting their hands on weapons grade enriched uranium. Episode 3 was a bit grim! Those poor liquidators. I personally think they should have promised all of them a quick, painless death and to completely take care of their family, for life. The whole thing was scandalous.

Just read that the series has beaten game of thrones in ratings on IMDB. 9.5.

8mpg. Same as I got from my Z!

Third episode. Shocking portrayal of the effects of acute radiation syndrome. Poor guys were ignorant with regards to radiation sickness. Would they have done what they did if they were fully aware of the horrors of ARS? If they were, they should have been offered a quick, painless death by the authorities and not just shipped off to Moscow to die in agony. With ARS, your veins collapse, so no pain medication can be administered while your DNA literally disintegrates and you begin coughing up parts of internal organs that have decomposed inside you. Really brings to light the suffering of the poor guy in the tokai mura criticality accident who was kept alive for 3 months. Begged to die but, they wouldn't let him. Theories go that the Japanese and Americans collaborated during the event to research the effects and possible "cure".