Since IJ are DOJ employees, the IJ was likely ordered to do it or be fired. I doubt it was actually sua sponte

Do any of them use OTSGs? That would get my vote

Like I have a favorite, but the spite list includes several (between infeasibilty and general stupidity)

The Energy Reorganization Act happened for a reason. Independent agencies were created for a reason. Expert boards like the ACRS came out of the problems of yr past and we seem determined to repeat them

The current group seems to be determined to forget the lessons of the past, at every level.

5 year olds have more empathy

Hopefully you're able to relax later, like Oyster does

It's an awesome little truck. We got a 22 hybrid and I've put an absurd number of miles on it. Basically no issues.

I mean to your point, I think something as early as the Smyth report is instructive here. The conceptual knowledge is out there, but the engineering and infrastructure required to actually build something is the hard part. Although, it certainly does make an eye catching headline

Morel, aghast at your original statement. Note that I am on the floor and he is in the arm chair. Such is life with cats

She's a special girl. And she tolerates the youngest kiddo, which is remarkable.

Would a cat help? She discovered the heated blanket

Can we also exclude designs we tried in the 1960s and realized they were a terrible idea?

How about a boiling water reactor with direct nuclear superheat built into the core? Oh wait, we already tried that.

Sometimes, stuff is cheap enough that you really just can't pass it up or would feel stupid later if you didn't buy it. This was definitely one of those.

Cutaway nuclear fuel labeled by General Electric

More from the days of nuclear past. Once upon a time, a younger me randomly stopped at an antique mall in southwestern Michigan. I spotted this on a shelf. The price wasn't especially high, but was enough that I had to think about it. Little did I know that this would kickstart a new collection.

That's me when it's 6pm on a Sunday and I set off the exit monitors leaving containment (minus the PhD). Or when I'm watching a dye penetrant exam for the fifth time and dizzy from the solvent

I'm somehow impressed they made it worse?!? Guess that was too much to hope

I second Ancillary Justice. Also maybe NineFox Gambit? Although the imperialism piece is more fleshed out in the second and third books

They still like that one, and are very proud of their history. I'd love a tour of what's left of Unit 1 some day, but I've never had time/opportunity to do so.

Apparently he lives in a high radon area. Apparently our RSO had to reconstitute his dose records from the different plants he had visited.

And knowing this particular person, I don't think he's in the habit of collecting radioactive materials

Colleague of mine used to keep his dosimeter in his basement office when he worked at home.... He doesn't do that anymore because he was getting enough dose from radon for it to screw up his dosimetry records

The hormesis folks are... an interesting crowd. I've never understood why people have grabbed onto ALARA and LNT as the reason plants are so expensive to build, tbh. Any regulatory scheme will have "keep the fission products inside the building" as a primary goal, and as it turns out, that's hard.

My favorite is the chunk of graphite I have labeled as coming from Obninsk. I'm slightly dubious that it was used, but the soviets did lots of stupid things. It definitely has the "visiting scientist gift" vibe. And Obninsk is just obscure enough that it's possible

I think there's an interesting contrast here between the "everyone gets a bonus check" vibe of the video and their other efforts to eliminate performance awards and high ratings for the majority of employees

Two types of people, those who would say they were there to watch the whale, and those who were there, but wouldn't admit it

darth vader is standing in a dark room and says i find your lack of faith disturbing ALT: darth vader is standing in a dark room and says i find your lack of faith disturbing

Teller off in the corner

I was in a branch meeting at work. Listening to a bunch of near retirement age civil servants (mostly on the more conservative side) try and parse that was similarly surreal

The AFGE president advocated for a clean CR a couple of weeks ago (and got a ton of shit for it)

What's even dumber is that Spirit exclusively flew A320s and their entire fleet was grounded because of a design/maintenance issue on the P&W engines that their entire fleet used. So even if you bought the planes sans engine, the engines aren't even available to buy

Am sad, because we likely won't get any down here.