unfortunately it seems NRC commissioners have a very unreasonable view on what's reasonable, because in effect they neutered the whole nuclear power industry.
Anecdote - After TMI the NRC mandated that all nuclear plants install a system to automatically initiate auxiliary feed water to the steam generators if certain criteria were met. The Combustion Engineering version of this was called Aux Feed Actuation System or AFAS. During the next refueling outage it was being installed and I was giving lectures on it's design and operation (I had moved from operations to training by then) and the very first question from the very first operator training session was
"How do you turn it off". My answer was "you can't". They were not happy.
I don't think it's possible to exercise your way to weight loss. A handful of Oreo's will negate an hour workout. Simply cutting out as much added sugar as possible will drop weight quickly on just about anyone. Cutting out sugar isn't really a diet but more of a habit change. I'm not saying don't exercise, I'm saying both are necessary for results.
In Japan they shut down each plant yearly for inspection. Everywhere else it's done on the refueling cycle. The plant I worked at was on a two year cycle so each year one of the two plants shut down for about an 8 week refuel/overhaul outage.
2 Japanese business culture is very deferential and top down. The amount of lying and covers ups around the Fukushima disaster was and is horrifying. Having worked for Sony I can say that there is an awful lot of dead wood in Japanese class system culture just as there is in the English class system, and that is not a healthy way to run something potential deadly on a global scale.
I'm on the fence about nuclear power largely because of the above. It's not the technology, it's human and bureaucratic fallibility and greed that is the weak link
That's fair enough but shouldn't you have the same hesitancy about say, solar panel production or coal mining or oil production or wind farm installation and maintenance? All of these can be just as deadly and potentially more polluting.
I got a speeding in a school zone ticket and fought it because the points for that offence are high. The sign gave times the speed limit was in effect but I missed it and there were no other cars on the road so I didn't have that as a reference either. My lawyer argued that if the time of day was required knowledge there should have been a clock installed under the sign or some other visual alert. I got off.
Why are you blaming Hollywood for the lack of local distribution?
Hollywood made the movies. It's up to the local theater to actually show them. They generally don't because it's not worth the money to do so outside of big cities and college towns.
(Hollywood hasn't controlled the theater industry since 1948, when the courts ruled that studios owning theaters was a violation of antitrust law. See United States v. Paramount.)
I'm remembering back 40 years here. I worked in the engine room of a nuclear powered cruiser. We had a switch called something like "battle bypass" that would bypass all the auto scram functions. The military calls a shutdown scram while the commercial industry calls it trip. We had a captain rank captain and I believe all nuclear powered vessels had one.
motorcycles have different issues. The gear changes are internal inside the transmission, not in the belt drive line. Also, bikes tend to have multi-link suspension with chain growth through the travel. This allows the suspension to be reactive to pedaling forces to reduce rider induced pedal-bob that eats efficiency.
