halcyoncmdr

Insisting on using a system that is well documented to make shit up out of nowhere just means you're both lazy and a poor decision maker.

Especially when there's no inherent gain from its use like corporate executives solely trying to reduce their biggest expense (payroll) without any other consideration.

Doesn't look like he's annouced anything, but he's not up for re-election until 2026 still. Plenty of time for this constituents to forget.

It's the party of projection. Everything they talk about is solely because that's what they are doing/would do if given the opportunity.

This has been obvious to anyone paying attention for decades now. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia turned their massive propaganda infrastructure outwards.

Considering the entire prison population was about 7,500 last year and they only have about 5,000 beds across all facilities... That's a pretty large percentage.

And to add to that, from this specific article:

According to a recent Kriminalvården report, Sweden’s prison population could – in the most extreme scenario – grow from 7,800 this year to 41,000 in 2034 as a result of more punitive policies driven by the far right.

They're looking at a 500% increase in the prison population within a decade because of the new policies. If that's not a shift towards mass incarceration I'd like to know what your definition would be.

I honestly feel like this is some sort of genetic thing. Even kittens, who have never had a chance to be taught this, somehow know exactly when the most inopportune time is and seem to focus on getting it just right.

Scientific education rather than emotional reactions to the unknown does that.

If you were to take all of that nuclear waste ever produced in the US, processed and stored inside dry cases, it would fit within an American football field less than 100 ft high. That's an insanely tiny amount of space for all the waste ever created for an entire type of energy production. For some comparison the amount of coal removed from the ground each year would form a cube over a mile wide.

However, most nuclear waste is low level waste and decays within a decade or less. Some of the medium level waste lasts a few decades. The longer stuff is a small fraction of overall waste. But some of it can be reprocessed and used as fuel again. It is also perfect for the starter fuel for some Thorium-based nuclear breeder reactor designs. Some are useful for various nuclear medicines. Very little of it actually has no use whatsoever.

Coal on the other hand is relatively cheap, the technology is fairly simple, running them is fairly cheap, there's no waste to get rid of etc

Well, the waste gets thrown into the atmosphere. And that coal ash contains radioactive waste. Radioactive particulates up to 10x more concentrated than the raw coal fuel are injected directly into the atmosphere and spread by the winds. You know, the actual dangerous part of those nuclear accidents everyone is always thinking about.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/

If a nuclear plant leaked even a fraction of that amount of radiation it would be shut down immediately. But all of that gets to be ignored, because it's not a nuclear power plant.

Well it's not working. Got a paywall here on mobile Firefox, no extensions that modify or strip links.

How were the switches designed such that they prevented accidental activation? Because it looks like they just get simply flipped down. Could it be pull-out-and-down? Or maybe there's a lot of resistance during the switch action?

The lever-lock fuel switches are designed to prevent accidental activation - they must be pulled up to unlock before flipping, a safety feature dating back to the 1950s. This isn't a new or weird design. It's essentially the standard used in basically every plane because it works.

"It would be almost impossible to pull both switches with a single movement of one hand, and this makes accidental deployment unlikely," a Canada-based air accidents investigator, who wanted to remain unnamed, told the BBC.

Also, you can access the website from any device with a web browser. The same goes for Apple.