Article: Mülheim-Kärlich Nuclear Power Plant

That was interesting but I find myself annoyed by the clickbait thumbnail:

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vs. actual:

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That's just before and after the OSHA inspector showed up.

--Ian

Anyone here familiar with that sort of demolition work who can tell me why you'd want to spend months slowly chipping away at something like that as opposed to a explosively-triggered implosion?

That specific site was in Germany and the article mentioned once they reduced the height it could be demolished via a normal process (I assumed implosion). Maybe it’s a law specific to Germany, or the EU that requires it. :dunno:

Seems like they clipped it specifically to the area that is just inward of vertical.

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I read that (in my head) in Judy Dench's voice, and then proceeded to spit coffee onto the keyboard. :bowrofl:

The local Tony's Grocery has chicken feet for $2.29 / lb.

US Government Inspected, no less.

So now we know that our tax dollars, in some small part, pay the salary of a federal chicken foot inspector.


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"Kinetic Disassembly" is not too far off of a term used to describe an exploding lithium ion battery pack in an official compliance testing report my team commissioned recently. I wish I could remember the exact term, I think it was something alond the lines of "rapid thermal disassembly".

This reminds me of an event about 20 years ago, during the UL certification process for the power supply that PR&E was designing for the Airwave audio console.

It was the last big linear supply that we did. After that, we went with switchers.

Anyway, the lab decided that as part of the validation, they'd bypass the overcurrent protector, short-circuit the output, and apply unlimited current to the input.

The inspectors' report read, in part: "Smoke and flames were observed to radiate from the device."

Lol, right?! "Disabled all protections, went to extreme operating conditions, some stuff of minor note occurred."

They test this stuff in something akin to a bomb shelter too.

At least for some meat, the USDA charges the company whose products are being inspected for the inspection service. Of course all that means is that the cost is passed on to the consumer, but it's not tax dollars directly.

--Ian

Apparently, the Chinese built a giant wok up in the mountains...

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https://www.thesouthafrican.com/tech...-space-photos/

Hot in these rhinos

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Well fuck I did not know the Chinese had a golden eye satellite.
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Arecebo. Aliems.