Man, it’s been a rough year for LA. Hope this event is mild.

Per the IAEA report on Chernobyl, page 4:

The control rods and the safety rods of an RBMK reactor are inserted into the reactor core from above, except for 24 shortened rods which are inserted upwards and which are used for flattening the power distribution. A graphite rod termed a 'displaced is attached to each end of the length of absorber of each rod, except for twelve rods that are used in automatic control. The lower displacer prevents coolant water from entering the space vacated as the rod is withdrawn, thus augmenting the reactivity worth of the rod. The graphite displacer of each rod of all RBMK reactors was, at the time of the accident, connected to its rod via a ‘telescope’, with a water filled space of 1.25 m separating the displacer and the absorbing rod (see Fig. 1). The dimensions of rod and displacer were such that when the rod was fully extracted the displacer sat centrally within the fuelled region of the core with 1.25 m of water at either end. On receipt of a scram signal causing a fully withdrawn rod to fall, the displacement of water from the lower part of the channel as the rod moved down- wards from its upper limit stop position caused a local insertion of positive reactivity in the lower part of the core. The magnitude of this ‘positive scram’ effect depended on the spatial distribution of the power density and the operating regime of the reactor.

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900 pounds of trash would be a great band name for a specifically weighted set of individuals.

Good on those homies for getting it cleaned up. Picking up trash is never much fun, but it really does a lot to make the neighborhood feel happier.

That is what some of the tech companies are doing. For situations like the one in the article, that obviously isn’t the case, since rates are going up. If the tech companies are building and maintaining their own infrastructure for their outsized power needs, rates should either stay the same or fall (assuming that the tech company builds capacity to handle peak loads during LLM training and sells capacity during non peak loads). Rates going up in response to new data centers can only mean that the other grid users are subsidizing new capacity being added or buying energy from elsewhere at a higher rate.

Yeah, I don’t really care at this point. I’m tired of people acting like it’s wrong to not be willing to compromise with a group of people that rubber stamp inhumane treatment of other people. This admin is doing fascist Nazi shit and yet I still see Republicans covering for them and supporting them. Until Republicans can stop condoning and supporting evil, they deserve to be ostracized.

I do not give a single fuck if it drives them further right. Trying to compromise with these people has not done anything but drive them to the far right anyway, so why should they be validated by continuing to take them seriously?

The AI said that graphite tips on the control rods was a great idea! Let’s get this low power test done for The Company, it’ll be great! Worst case scenario, we just hit the AZ5 button and harmlessly scram the reactor with no problems!

Ope, caught me! Thanks for the correction!

When asked if he had been bitten by ticks, his wife said he had in the past and that, earlier in the summer, he has at least 12 or 13 “chigger” bites around his ankles. Researchers said that in the eastern U.S., what are sometimes referred to as “chiggers” are often larvae of lone star ticks

TIL. What an unpleasant and unexpected way to go. Even if they’d considered alpha gal, he could have rightfully said “well it’s not like anyone has ever died from it” and opted to wait to see if symptoms continued. I’ve had a bad stomachache after a meal before, and I wouldn’t immediately jump to this as a possibility, especially if I didn’t know I’d been bitten by a lone star.

Tragic, RIP to bro

You could… Read the article?

Another fine example of big business socializing the costs of the business while privatizing the profit. True fairness would make them pay for the cost of adding the additional capacity that they require, rather than jacking up everyone’s rates to pay it for them.

Billionaires and their enablers.

Great marketing, dipshit

The aviation side of my brain is so annoyed. “Watch your attitude”? I’m wings level, bitch. Watch your own.

What’s the point?

Builds army of surveillance tools

“Stop calling it surveillance” These people would be so funny if they didn’t have such a negative impact on millions of people

If we assess the amount of damage they are doing to society against the amount of benefit they bring … I think you’re in the clear.

Yeah, those people are the centrist/slight right Democrats. The Republican party can fuck all the way off. Just because an ideology exists doesn’t mean it deserves to be respected.

What does being a veteran have to do with any of this? Either the state should be killing people or not, their veteran status shouldn’t really be a factor in that decision.

Yeah, that seems on brand