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Contaminated water in a swimming pool inside the basement of the reactor building at Vermont Yankee.

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VERNON – The Intex “Easy Set” swimming pool retails for anywhere from $35 to $500 depending on its dimensions, and it’s billed as one of “the easiest family and friend-sized pools to set up in the world.”

But in Vernon, the Easy Set is serving a much different purpose than the one advertised on the manufacturer’s colorful website: It’s being used to help manage a complex groundwater-intrusion problem at Vermont Yankee.

Photos submitted to VTDigger show several blue pools marked with yellow radioactive warnings due to the full load of contaminated water inside. Pumps and hoses are connected to the pools in some images; others show large “bladders” apparently filled with water nearby.

While the setup may appear haphazard, Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman Neil Sheehan expressed confidence that the liquid – which he said contains “very low levels of tritium” – is being handled safely while plant owner Entergy develops a longer-term plan for managing radioactive water at the Vernon plant.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

A fine idea, until someone was working at the bottom of the shaft, and a bolt smacked him on the head at terminal velocity. The hard-hat at least did its job there, so my friend only got sacked rather than prosecuted for manslaughter.

Platystemon posted:

Hot Karl Marx posted:

he's also a job creator cause now people have to fix that bridge

Drunk Driver Dad posted:

I dunno man. I made a post about it a while back when I first started working with that surge tester and was curious how dangerous it was. A ton of people have gotten shocked by it at work, and supposedly it's not too dangerous, at least what the people at work say. The high potential testing machine we have has all this poo poo that you have to cordon off and turn a flashing light on, and only the higher ups are able to use it because it apparently is capable of killing. It's weird they'd go through that trouble just to let all the regular workers use the normal machine if it was so dangerous. Either way, I'm not going to use it with 2 people anymore, only by myself when I'm in control of it. I could be wrong, I don't know, I'm not a scientist, but like I said I'm not going to do it while trusting another person to work it while I move the clamps around.

fyodor posted:

"Guys, I'm going to go this way I'll meet you at the place we're supposed to be bombing I swear."

~~~Much later~~~

"Oh psshhtt yeah! I was totally there you didn't see me? Dropped my bombs and everything!"

story checks out

dis astranagant posted:

That varies a lot by jurisdiction. In my state you have to have 2 years residence, 90 days non compliance and there's an annual limit that isn't a month's rent for anything but the shadiest country hovel.

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If major violations of the health or safety codes exist in an apartment, (a few
examples would be: a lack of heat in winter, a sewer pipe leak, or a toilet that
will not flush) the tenant may withhold rent to force the landlord to make
repairs. Before a tenant can legally withhold rent, however, four things
must be true:
Major code violations must exist that are serious enough to affect or
potentially affect the tenant’s health and safety;
and
The landlord must be given written notice of the problems from either the
tenant, a governmental inspector such as a health officer or town housing
inspector or from a qualified independent inspector;
and
The landlord must be given a reasonable amount of time to make repairs after
getting the written notice; and
The problem can not have been deliberately or negligently caused by the
tenant or the tenant’s guests.

Frinkahedron posted:

Harbor Freight gives those meters away with any purchase sometimes.

I got one.

dr_rat posted:

....I've never wanted a hump a bridge more in my life.

I shall prove myself a better bridge humper then that fool that tried and so badly failed before me.

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This place is a message...and part of a system of messages...pay attention to it!

Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here...nothing valued is here.

What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location...it increases toward a center...the center of danger is here...of a particular size and shape, and below us.

The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

The danger is to the body, and it can kill.

The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.

The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

dis astranagant posted:

The original was a bunch of unedited and untested bullshit compiled by some kid out of stuff he dug up in a public library in the late 60s. Hanlon's Razor is in full effect here. A few years ago the FBI released their files on the subject, which you can download in pdf form here. It's mostly responses to concerned letters they received shortly after publication and some memos about whether there was anything illegal about printing it. There's also some discussion about the many copycats online.

The FBI's initial analysis was that "From a technical standpoint, it is for the most part accurate but tends to over-simplify in many instances." The drug chapter is half fantasy and half stuff out of patent applications and chemical journals. The combat chapter is barely enough to springboard your own research. The bomb recipes, while generally correct, are not always complete and thus pose more of a hazard to the attacker than attackee.

Platystemon posted:

article

DrBouvenstein posted:

These guys have spent the last week repainting the water tower across the parking lot from my office:


Near as I could tell, they were being pretty OSHA complaint, except the guy on the ground doesn't have a hardhat on.

Dillbag posted:

the safety vest will make his broken corpse easy to spot

e. if that is indeed a neon green safety vest and not a monster energy tshirt or something

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UVM Police Chief Lianne Tuomey later told the Burlington Free Press that the man had fallen from the top floor of the seven-floor structure — about 75 feet above the ground. The man had been wearing a harness, and it was removed before the man was brought to the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. The man was pronounced dead at the hospital, Tuomey said.

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MENDON, Vt. (AP) - Police in Vermont say a car ended up almost vertical when the driver swerved quickly in response to her GPS ordering her to "turn around."

The car was suspended almost vertically on guy wires attached to a utility pole in Mendon on Wednesday night.

Police say 30-year-old Nabila Altahan of Dorchester, Massachusetts, was headed west on U.S. Route 4 when she passed her intended destination and the GPS gave sudden directions to turn around.

Police say Altahan reacted quickly to the instructions, leaving the road at a significant enough speed to propel the vehicle up the wires.

Neither Altahan nor her passenger was injured.

PittTheElder posted:

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The ride is unique among amusement park rides in that the rider has complete control over his or her speed and ride experience. With this control comes responsibility: the rider must ensure the cart is not going too fast; otherwise the cart may overturn around curves, leading to possible injury or death.

DocCynical posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin

9 atmospheres to 1 in a fraction of a second.

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Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter opening created by the jammed interior trunk door by escaping air and violently dismembered, including bisection of the thoracoabdominal cavity which further resulted in expulsion of all internal organs of the chest and abdomen except the trachea and a section of small intestine and of the thoracic spine and projecting them some distance, one section later being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.

Humphreys posted:

Worth it for the badge:

"RAD SCOUT!"

zedprime posted:

Don't whizz on the electric fence

http://i.imgur.com/FLNzhK3.gifv

mom and dad fight a lot posted:

I wish my crawlspace was paved like that.

elise the great posted:

I'm still trying to figure out how this happened, since they... kinda don't have connectors that can mate. A foley cath (indwelling) typically has three possible ports: a luer-lock screw-top port that requires a compatible adapter for flushing and drawing back fluid, a second luer that inflates the balloon, and a large open rubber tube where the drainage bag hooks up, which is large enough at the opening to jam your finger into if you had some weird reason to do that. I'm guessing that's where the oxygen hooked up, because oxygen hooks up with a slip-tip cath that's not compatible at all with luer systems (for good reason, as we use that system for IV lines). Plus the pt end of any oxygen hookup is like... a mask or a nasal cannula or something, which is COMPLETELY incompatible with a rubber tube.

I just can't figure out what wacko MacGuyver nonsense had to take place to get the two hooked up. Somebody had to work at that. And turn the pressure up to max, or something. I just don't understand HOW

Mithaldu posted:

Imagine the kinda man it takes to get into that seat without taking your pants off first.

PittTheElder posted:

I really want to know what would happen if you plugged that into something. Like, how fast would the ethernet end just melt together and start shorting?

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Alcohol has always been present during surgeries, but the massive increase of lasers and cauteries for surgeries has led to their always being a potential ignition source near the patient.

Mak0rz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtSUn_clNDU&t=26s

Jerry Cotton posted:

Oh hey let me present this thing that millions of people do and takes about twenty minutes as something outlandish.

Jerry Cotton posted:

OK the first point I didn't even think about because everyone who lives in a place where Winter tyres are necessary does have two sets of wheels. To the other points: you're just slow and useless. The only specialty tool you need in addition to any jack is a cross wrench, and a length of pipe in case some of the bolts are rusted or too tight. Maybe add five minutes for wheezing and cursing if you're really fat.

Doggles posted:

Don't take selfies on train tracks!

http://www.up.com/aboutup/community/inside_track/selfie-tragedy-12-7-2016.htm

ChickenHeart posted:

That said, a decent chunk of safety procedures followed today have their origins in stupid, avoidable accidents from yesteryear:

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

But if this story gets out that might also hurt sales! So now the company has to make a difficult decision about whether to start warning people about the dangers they've known about all along or whether to continue keeping quiet about them. A painful and troubling decision that companies have been struggling with for a long, long time.


Et cetera, et cetera ...

"Yeah we knew people would be horribly injured but we had sales quotas to meet, so whaddya gonna do?"

Bum the Sad posted:

Uh yeah. That's the ideal scenario. If she had a total hip and wasn't under general that means your wife had a spinal which means the surgery caused zero pain. That's an easy sedation after that. I love doing those. That's a beautiful anesthetic.

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

Mikl posted:

Personally I just have my headlights on every time I'm driving, even during the day. Am I weird for doing this?

wolrah posted:

"Plug and play" LEDs have the same problems as ebay HID kits. The optics of your light assembly aren't designed for the light pattern emitted by an LED bulb. It may look brighter, in fact it probably does, but that brightness is almost certainly not being used optimally and is probably worse in at least one way (glare, foreground illumination, etc.)

Right now there aren't really any good retrofit projectors for LEDs. The Toyota Corolla units are widely available but are generally considered to be worse than a standard HID projector retrofit. That'll eventually change of course, but a lot of the OEM LED lights aren't actually all that good either.