People praising this don't read "as reasonablly" clause. There's already wiggle room and political/economic climate involved in how to implement (also, ALARA is not only covering sub microSv/yr realm where background Radiation is about). Moving away from it can certainly loosen the grip in the future, likely at the expence of onsite workers.
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All I knew was that Wizards of the Coast used them to seize MTG cards from a youtuber, but TIL their rich history of union busting.
It just looks like personal blocklist considering some users appear on the blocklist more than once (though regular blocklist doesn't allow duplicate)
I just wander what would be like Steam with Valve bandcamp style physical merch selection. haven't cheched but atleast itch.io wont forbid to put link to their physical merch store?
I remember some prof joked on their lecture, that they've been grilled once in EV industry after they presented the environmtal impact comparison between legacy car and EV that includes lithium mining, refinement, waste management cost and how many miles EV needs to offset such cost with its "green fuel" (spoiler: a lot). It was nearly decade ago and I don't know their formula holds today, but it's still plausible such negative externality being overlooked and remaining.
Nuclear plant has been historically built nearby water body without water loss (evaporating). Shift to open system happened mostly in US due to regulation in response to marine environment protection. However majority of plants are still located in coast side (UK, Korea, Japan, Finland etc) using sea water, inland one still utilize river water (France).
For new US reactors likely employ open system so your water concern stands, though its open evaporation system is optimized better than unoptimized data center ones.
Closed watet system is expensive and less scalable construction wise.
Nuclear plant employs it because the water has direct contact to the nuclear fuel, containing radioactive minerals. It cannot be released outside without treatment. It is necessity than choice. Companies would've chosen open water system if regulation allowed to so that they don't have to pay the cleanup fee.
Nuclear plant has closed water system and usually dumps heat to nearby lake or sea. It ofc has environmental impact but less on freahwater usage compared to AI data centers that cool machines using freah water and in a way hard to recover water.
Tho when it comes to nuclear plant the elephant in the room is the hazardous waste it produces that takes next 100,000 years to settle. We're doing "let's fuck around bcs we won't find out in our lifetime" again.
Wind (and tidal) are affected by climate, may become unsustainable and imo the true free energy is solar.
Its symbolic move of defiance. Calbee has been queried by the govt for contradicting their "no shortage" claim.
Petrol firms in Japan suggested the cabinet to take measure in reducing demands bcs they knew the numbers better in April but govt ignored.
Calbee didn't retract their decision aftet queried. The shortage is true, it's a marketing to make it clear.
That sounds like FIRE than NEET but idk there can be overlap.
As someone educated in Japanese subculture I thought it was testing knowledge of hasshaku-sama (urban legend of 8 ft tall mistress, you may also find spicy contemporary interpretation too).