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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Proposes to Weaken Radiation Protections, Putting Workers and Communities at RiskEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Which sounds great till you realize that what’s reasonably possible is a constantly lowering standard - what I mean is as tech gets better the standard is always stricter. Which sounds great, but in reality isn’t how we regulate (as far as I know) anything else - we set a safety level and politically revisit it as makes sense.

    That’s exactly how we regulate process safety in OSHA PSM facilities. Which is basically all of heavy industry, chemical, even some food and pharma.

    I’m not opposed to a science based, well defined criteria for nuclear safety. But we don’t need to throw ALARP out to have it. There are exposure limits for various chemicals that guide how high the exposures can be and still be considered ALARP. If we can get a scientific consensus for each kind of radiation exposure, the same can happen for nuclear. AFAIK, we don’t have said consensus.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•Meta's AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly BacteriaEnglish
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    8 days ago

    “When the board shared that it found a substance in the city’s wastewater — not public drinking water — Fortis immediately stopped discharging industrial wastewater and began hauling it offsite,” a Meta spokesperson told Cowboy State.

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Well the ship was towed outside the environment.

    Interviewer: Into another environment…?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No, no it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment.

    Interviewer: No but from one environment to another environment…?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment.

    Interviewer: Well what’s out there?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Nothings out there!

    Interviewer: There must be something out there…?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: There is nothing out there, all there is is sea, and birds, and fish.

    Interviewer: And?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And 20,000 tons of crude oil. truckloads of deadly bacteria

    Interviewer: And what else?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And a fire.

    Interviewer: And anything else?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And the part of the ship that the front fell off. But theres nothing else out there. It’s just a complete void.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    13 days ago

    I’ve worked in industrial automation for the past 18 years. What you’re talking about is lights-out manufacturing. While this may be the state of the art in some sectors, it’s definitely not for most sectors and even less in the aged installed base in the US.

    The investment to bring old factories even close to fully automated is simply not being made, and for good reason. The sad reality is that exploiting humans to do a lot of the more expensive to automate work is cheaper.