They’re seeing effects because the core of a Soviet nuclear reactor undergoing a failed stress test exploded. How many people died from the US Chernobyl - Three Mile Island? Zero, with no radiation seeping into the surrounding area.
The anti-nuclear campaign of the 1970ies and 1980ies in the West massively contributed to the acceleration of global warming.
French carbon emissions per produced kWh of electricity are 1/10th of UK or Germany, as they’re getting more than two thirds of their needs from nuclear power.
This is some real low hanging, bipartisan unity-fruit. Let’s see if the GOP goes for it, or continues their devolvement into the trumpublican swamp party.
Saw a Facebook post attacking Beau Biden for something he did when he was attorney general. Good to see people committed to dragging down dead people like they did with John McCain.
It really is. In normal times, a member like that wouldn’t even be in the house. In other times they would have had a big slapping back into line and censure from their party leadership.
I get that this step could lead to a tit for tat kind of set up in the future, but fuck me if the GOP had some spine this wouldn’t be happening now. I mean, she’s a fucking freshman. If Mitch calls you a cancer to the party then I mean…
If you go back up thread I am all for nuclear power provided the right regulations are in place (they are in the IS, but we keep taking reactors down).
The really long term effects (like 500+ years) of storing the waste is not known and cannot really be predicted. Even the lead coffins they now bury the stuff into are likely to leech to over time.
Same lady who believes in Qanon, and harassed a Parkland school shooting survivor for testifying while calling the tragedy a false-flag operation, has been placed on the house committee for Education and Labor. Lets see how many Reps support this lady having a hand in our children’s futures.
Oh I know. I think perhaps she ought to go back to secondary school herself. Unfortunately I don’t think we’ve successfully piloted brain transplants yet.
We actually discussed that above at least a few of us did. I’m not any more a fan of it (EO’s or “ramming” legislation) than when the GOP did it. But I also don’t spend time being too mad that the Dems are busy doing the exact same things the GOP did. If someone didn’t expect that then they haven’t been paying attention.
Doesn’t make it right but it is the fear when as I believe Aragorn said the norms are violated.
while the numbers are large, these actions aren’t barrier-breaking. They call for the creation of task forces, direct agencies to begin a regulatory process or explore a policy change.
A lot of what these orders consist of are plans to make plans, in a sense," Rudalevige said. “There’s a lot of reviewing, reporting, sort of an urging to rev up that process, but it’s not a substitute for the process itself.”
Meltdown is not an official term but melting point of uranium fuel rods is 2800 Celsius and currently the cores at Fukushima are 90 and 100 Celsius respectively for reactors 1,2 and 3.
The cores are not molten and probably haven’t been since right after the accident.
Do they still circulate water to keep them cool. Yes. But the situation is under control and they’ve done well to recover.
Yeah I suppose you have to pick your poison. But I am optimistic.
Yes and I have been for years. But it’s tit for tat now because both parties are unable to work together, and the GOP decided to try burning any bridges they still had left with their approach to the previous POTUS nonsense.
