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GulfLander

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There are quite a lot, just not posted online for geopolitical reasons. I literally posted one a few posts ago.
Lack of education?

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"Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said on Saturday that the country's banks had exhausted public "goodwill", as the government seeks to strike a balance in new financial regulations following last year's Credit Suisse crisis."

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luminary

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It's like they haven't learned anything from Fukushima. Or is it because they want to go out in a bang?
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Regressing Western civilization dusting off the husks of their former nuclear disasters as they can no longer build new facilities from a lost age of technology.

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One of its reactors, Unit 2, suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 in what remains the most significant nuclear accident in US history.
 

gelgoog

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Regressing Western civilization dusting off the husks of their former nuclear disasters as they can no longer build new facilities from a lost age of technology.
Nuclear power reactors of the LWR type were initially designed for a lifetime of 40 years. More than that and you had issues with micro-cracks in the reactor making continued operation unsafe. This happened due to neutron embrittlement of the metal. But today in Russia and the US and other places they found out a way to fix this. You heat the nuclear reactor at high temperature and the micro-cracks go away. The procedure is heating the reactor via thermal annealing, and then they X-ray it to see if there are any cracks left. This increases the lifetime of the reactor by 10-20 years and can be repeated multiple times. Typically they extend the reactor lifetime from 40 to 60 years on the first pass, but some say it is possible to do it until 80 years with two passes.
 
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iewgnem

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Regressing Western civilization dusting off the husks of their former nuclear disasters as they can no longer build new facilities from a lost age of technology.

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One of its reactors, Unit 2, suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 in what remains the most significant nuclear accident in US history.
In the Foundation books by Asimov written back in the 1950s, the Empire's loss of nuclear science and regression to reliance on "tech men" who only knows how to maintain them, was used as a big plot point in showing the empire's gradual but irreversible collapse.
 
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