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by lostlogin
2023 days ago
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> The CA Waste Burner has a set of systems governed by the laws of physics that cannot be overruled by humans, and which will cause the reactor to shut down safely if something goes wrong. This is really good, but humans have an amazing knack for messing stuff up and I really hope corners aren’t cut building and maintaining it. What comes to mind is the situation in Japan where workers inadvertently had some material go critical, and while this was being investigated it was found that they were carrying waste uranium and nitric acid around by hand in buckets. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20263-japans-record-o... |
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