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Hurt Whitey Maybe posted:so uh, is that bad "containment pond" is industry shorthand for "storing hazardous chemicals by digging a hole and dumping them in that hole". if they're real fancy they might put the chemicals in storage drums or line the pits with plastic sheeting "commingling" in this context is shorthand for "the floods filled up those holes in the ground, so the water mixed with the chemicals stored there and overflowed back out of the holes, mixing all the chemicals stored there into one big toxic soup that'll be carried along with the floodwaters" it's not ideal
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Irradiation posted:A research reactor is the absolute least of any problems of water getting onto the Dow site. Amazing username/post/av text triple combo
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Main Paineframe posted:"containment pond" is industry shorthand for "storing hazardous chemicals by digging a hole and dumping them in that hole". if they're real fancy they might put the chemicals in storage drums or line the pits with plastic sheeting another sign we are entering the "cool zone"
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research reactors from the 50s ain't poo poo. I highly doubt they store their spent fuel on-site for something as piddly as a 300kw pool reactor. all the other nasty poo poo and chemical waste? now you're talkin'
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just start dumpin boron into the lake before it empties and it will neutralize the atoms down river
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radioactive water a problem? just add lead!
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May 20, 2020 19:54
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Uhhhh, where are those floodwaters going?
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PostNouveau posted:Uhhhh, where are those floodwaters going? like covid-19 they will just disappear without need for trump to do anything
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PostNouveau posted:Uhhhh, where are those floodwaters going? downtown midland, MI
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PostNouveau posted:Uhhhh, where are those floodwaters going? To a farm where they will be happy.
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twoday posted:Amazing username/post/av text triple combo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEg6wjcwZMQ But to be serious a 300 kW reactor isn't going to be anywhere near the concerns of chemical containment breaches. They might have some old fuel sitting off to the side in their pool still but this isn't a power reactor with dedicated spent fuel pools that are going to require constant input of energy to prevent loss of coolant. Even at full power in a 1 MW TRIGA the water temperature of the containment pool stays below 80 F and when shutdown the power is less than 100 W. I'm not sure if they have an above or below ground reactor design, but if it's above ground the core is surrounded by a massive water-tight containment structure. If it's a below ground the biggest concern will probably be tritium releases which, since this a low power research reactor, shouldn't be a huge concern compared to anything else at Dow getting out.
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Real hurthling! posted:downtown midland, MI Followed by Saginaw and Lake Huron
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May 20, 2020 20:10
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Cool cool https://twitter.com/davidhammerWWL/status/1263176449520959488 Can't raise the $20 million to fix the power turbine. I'm sure the next disaster flood won't cost $20 million, so as long as the city is saving money.
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PostNouveau posted:Cool cool they were offered a discount on a new one but spent twice as much to fail to repair a 96 year old one
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Real hurthling! posted:they were offered a discount on a new one but spent twice as much to fail to repair a 96 year old one Also: quote:Meanwhile, the board approved a new $4.8 million maintenance labor contract with JEI Solutions, a company owned by the brother of the S&WB finance director. New Orleans politics! If you want to know why you ain't seen Mitch Landrieu in the national media in a while, it's this poo poo right here.
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 the floodwaters are returning to Number 6 Brine Pond. nature is healing perhaps government regulations are the virus
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PostNouveau posted:New Orleans politics! remember a few years ago when they had some heavy non-hurricane rain and whoops big parts of the city flooded because the drainage system wasn't actually operating at full capacity and some heads rolled over at the sewerage and water board and then it came out that the people in charge gave themselves all raises and more sinecures were fired lol forever at louisiana politics
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:remember a few years ago when they had some heavy non-hurricane rain and whoops big parts of the city flooded because the drainage system wasn't actually operating at full capacity and some heads rolled over at the sewerage and water board That's when they did a survey of the drainage tunnels for the first(?) time since Katrina and found literal entire cars in there, right?
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Ratspeaker posted:That's when they did a survey of the drainage tunnels for the first(?) time since Katrina and found literal entire cars in there, right? Yes https://twitter.com/samkarlin/status/1164259192003334144
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Ratspeaker posted:That's when they did a survey of the drainage tunnels for the first(?) time since Katrina and found literal entire cars in there, right? that was last year, they found a couple of cars that had been washed into an underground culvert from the katrina flooding 
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I said it before and I'll say it again, I cannot believe how apathetic New Orleans authorities are about keeping their city above water. "Our drainage canals are blocked? Should we clean them out? Our pump is an antique disaster that requires its own precarious electrical supply to run? Should we replace it? Nah, that costs, like... money."  I get that budgets are tight, but holy poo poo, you're all going to drown. (Not like you need me to tell you that, though.)
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Ratspeaker posted:I said it before and I'll say it again, I cannot believe how apathetic New Orleans authorities are about keeping their city above water. "Our drainage canals are blocked? Should we clean them out? Our pump is an antique disaster that requires its own precarious electrical supply to run? Should we replace it? Nah, that costs, like... money." The new administration has been a lot better than the Landrieu one, but it's critical to remember that a lot of what looks like apathy or incompetence is actually corruption. LaToya Cantrell is a shitlib who kowtows way too much to the tourism industry, but she's not openly corrupt like the last ... dozen or so New Orleans mayors. PostNouveau has issued a correction as of 21:45 on May 20, 2020 |
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Main Paineframe posted:"containment pond" is industry shorthand for "storing hazardous chemicals by digging a hole and dumping them in that hole". if they're real fancy they might put the chemicals in storage drums or line the pits with plastic sheeting seems p bad, thank you.
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PostNouveau posted:Uhhhh, where are those floodwaters going? Lake Huron
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:like covid-19 they will just disappear without need for trump to do anything Trump deleted his tweet from yesterday, but he said he was going to do nothing until the state stopped allowing people to vote by mail. EDIT: Found them and he somehow managed to get worse than the original tweet   
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Trump deleted his tweet from yesterday, but he said he was going to do nothing until the state stopped allowing people to vote by mail. tbf i dont think trump is deleting his tweets. im gunna guess its scavino or some other staffers who do it after he goes to sleep
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I can only imagine the one or two people left in the West Wing with some human decency left who saw those tweets and just started screaming.
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Was anything tweeted about Georgia straight canceling an election? I guess you can’t have voter fraud if nobody gets to vote...
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shame on an IGA posted:Followed by Saginaw and Lake Huron hypothetically, if someone gets their drinking water from the great lakes, should they be concerned asking for a friend
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Atrocious Joe posted:hypothetically, if someone gets their drinking water from the great lakes, should they be concerned If it makes you feel any better, your tap water is now technically speaking an energy drink
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Atrocious Joe posted:hypothetically, if someone gets their drinking water from the great lakes, should they be concerned hope it’s Lake Superior lol
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I can only imagine the one or two people left in the West Wing with some human decency left who saw those tweets and just started screaming. Poor cleaners. Lost their jobs for uncontrollable screaming. 
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