#nuclear meltdown

[bacony-cakes]

[luthoniel]

Remains of a disaster

[caffeinesam]

Do you remember Three Miles Island? Dubbed American Chernobyl? Like yeah sure they narrowly avoided a meltdown and the other reactors were operated until 2019.

Anyway.

Microsoft has it restart operations, strictly to power their AI servers. And they got the permit because they trained their fucking AI bot to handle nuclear regulatory paperwork.

We're losing the plot here!

[evilhorse]

We save everyone.

(Storm Volume 5 #1)

[gwydionmisha]

How did I not know this about Jimmy Carter?

[whats-in-a-sentence]

These solar power satellites world provide the world's energy needs without air pollution, without nuclear meltdowns, without dependency on OPEC, without – though they were, at that point, hardly an issue – fossil fuel emissions.*

* In Harriman's search for reasons for spaceflight Heinlein had of course included energy – but rather than safe, clean energy, he had imagined space as a place to put dangerous energy, in the form of nuclear power plants permanently on the brink of explosion.

"The Moon: A History for the Future" - Oliver Morton

[maepersonal]

I gotta say y’all, being the nuclear disaster autistic that I am, waking up and seeing this article yesterday:

and then this article this morning:

was extremely fucking funny to me.

like yesssssssss, you go world superpower! play point the finger with the giant fucking death machine on your own (albeit stolen) territory.

genius. truly.

[hidemiwoods]

Surviving in Japan

To keep being a dreamer living in Japan is as hard as to catch a fly in the air with chopsticks, and yet it’s not all impossible. The chain of events that you have never experienced in your life changes your routine days into chaos. While you can’t quite grasp the sudden change of circumstances, it throws you into confusion in which you continually need to make decisions and actions. You are…

[batpham-kills]

Something's... Off about the Fentons and their son's friends.

They seem to have been the last people to see Vladimir Masters, owner of DalvCo, and know of his whereabouts, yet refuse to reveal him or his location. They also seem to be taking full advantage of his absence, taking over his company and profiting from it and living in his castle in Wisconsin.

They always seem to have some kind of excuse as to why he's not around.

"He's on vacation! Oh, where? Um, Antarctica."

"You just missed him, actually. He was here a few minutes ago. Yeah, in this random dirty alley as I was being mugged. We discussed... Alleys."

"Yeah, he lives here. I know his room is super dusty. He just likes it like that."

Although Tim Drake sees the absence of Vlad Masters as an absolute win (Tucker Foley is much less creepy), he still sees that this requires an investigation. After all, a missing CEO is big news, especially when the last people to have seen him seemed to have had major beef with him. Could they have... Murdered him?

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Or: Vlad's taken a nice little trip to ghost prison. The Batfam think Vlad's disappearance was a result of the Fenton family murdering him.

[burningchandelier]

have I ever told you that my mother was at the Three Mile Island partial nuclear meltdown several years before I was born?

So. That could be part of the reason I am the way I am.

[erikahenningsen]

[madeofvoid]

I have to get it out. It's been like 9 months since my binge rewatch of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I'm not going to say that transitioning would've 100% saved Shinji, but it would kill Gendo instantly. Just, the thought of that dense motherfucker being confronted by the fact that his own son, testament to all of his imperfections, would suddenly start to resemble his wife-- which he cannot handle outside of Rei-- would make him tweak into oblivion and I think that's very funny. just. *Enter stage left, Shinji being forced through the doors of Gendo's office by Asuka and maybe Misato* Shinji: Father, I- Asuka: Just say it! Shinji: Father, I'm a girl.. I'd like to start hrt immediately. Gendo:

[reasonsforhope]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule Tuesday [April 9, 2024] that will require 218 chemical plants to reduce toxic and carcinogenic airborne pollutants, aiming to reduce the number of people with elevated cancer risk by 96% nationwide.

The rulings principally address chloroprene: used to make rubber products, and ethylene oxide, used primarily for sterilizing medical supplies. Long-term exposure to these chemicals and their manufacturing have been identified as possible carcinogens, or cancer-causing agents.

According to a report in the Washington Post, this can include lymphoma, leukemia, breast cancer, and liver cancer.

Across a strip of Louisiana and Texas where half of the 218 chemical manufacturing facilities set to be affected by the new regulations are located, cancer rates of these kinds are substantially higher than national averages, leading it to be colloquially called “Cancer Alley.”

EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited Cancer Alley during the open-comment period of the proposed ruling, and said that across the 85 miles dotted with communities, he failed to meet a single person who didn’t know a loved one or friend who had either developed cancer, died of it, or knew someone who had.

Once implemented, the ruling will reduce more than 6,200 tons of toxic air pollution each year, according to the Post."

-via Good News Network, April 15, 2024

[18catsreading]

Oh my fuck. Oh my God. Carlos Luna and Aabria Iyengar -- round of applause cuz those tapes were dope AF.

[evilhorse]

And like many monumental moments…it started with a big bang.

(Storm Volume 5 #1)

[eldritchneuro]

Trigun fandom when we are exposed to the protagonist suffering biblical horrors beyond human comprehension: