The NIMBY problems are not just for the storage location either. Nobody want nuclear waste trucked or shipped by rail through their region. Imagine if the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment had been carrying casks of nuclear waste.

Due to the mandatory appeals, additional court time, and increased cost of death row incarceration during the trial, life in prison is usually less expensive for the tax payer than the death penalty.

This is what we do with spent fissile material

Well, I can’t speak for other countries, but most of the nuclear waste generated in the USA has never reached any sort of permanent storage. Defense waste, from making nuclear weapons, is mostly stored in underground bunkers in two states.

How and where is nuclear waste stored in the U.S.?

Remnants of the chemical processing of radioactive material needed to manufacture nuclear weapons, often called “defense waste,” will eventually be melted along with glass, with the resulting material poured into stainless steel containers. These canisters are 10 feet tall and 2 feet in diameter, weighing approximately 5,000 pounds when filled.

For now, though, most of it is stored in underground steel tanks, primarily at Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina, key sites in U.S. nuclear weapons development. At Savannah River, some of the waste has already been processed with glass, but much of it remains untreated.

Waste from energy generation is almost all still stored above ground on site.

After about five years, the fuel bundles are removed, dried and sealed in welded stainless steel canisters. These canisters are still radioactive and thermally hot, so they are stored outdoors in concrete vaults that sit on concrete pads, also on the power plant’s property. These vaults have vents to ensure air flows past the canisters to continue cooling them.

As of December 2024, there were over 315,000 bundles of spent nuclear fuel rods in the U.S., and over 3,800 dry storage casks in concrete vaults above ground, located at current and former power plants across the country.

Even reactors that have been decommissioned and demolished still have concrete vaults storing radioactive waste, which must be secured and maintained by the power company that owned the nuclear plant.

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A more permanent solution is likely years, or decades, away.

Not only must a long-term site be geologically suitable to store nuclear waste for thousands of years, but it must also be politically palatable to the American people. In addition, there will be many challenges associated with transporting the waste, in its containers, by road or rail, from reactors across the country to wherever that permanent site ultimately is.

Perhaps there will be a temporary site whose location passes muster with the Supreme Court. But in the meantime, the waste will stay where it is.

Wait, since when does international law matter with regard to drone strikes? I could cite dozens of drone strikes by the Trump administration that clearly violated international law and they didn’t even make a ripple in any court system anywhere?

Probably for eight bucks a packet.

The company behind brands like Heinz, Kraft and Philadelphia is now cutting prices (2) on some products that had grown too expensive, increasing promotions…

Yay! Prices are actually going to drop a little?!

…and rolling out smaller package sizes at lower price points.

Fucking jackals.

No, but they often file lawsuits against others.

It’s also worth noting that they were escorted out of the American Diabetes Association conference for distributing an editorial published in the ADA’s own Journal.

A lot of places also like to shorten the time that the light is yellow which conveniently boosts profits.

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The document we reported on was not some random document. As we wrote at the time, the strategy document was written by Microsoft executives Omar Shahine, Jakob Werner, and some sort of AI writing tool. This information is in our original article and is readily available to Nadella. We wrote: “The document seen by 404 Media lists Shahine and another executive, Jakob Werner, as its authors. The document itself, however, notes that it was ‘co-created turn-by-turn with AI. Human verified every sentence.’”

Shahine is the leader of Microsoft’s Scout project, as he has written numerous times on his own blog, on his LinkedIn, and on Microsoft’s own announcement of the software. In attempting to distance himself from his own company’s executives and strategy documents, Nadella has revealed that he either does not know how to read or does not know what is happening with some of the company’s highest-profile products.

But how are you gonna have that at all times everywhere?

Someone made a hoodie with IR LED lights all around the face. I bet one could also build it into a necklace or something, but you’d need some sort of battery in your pocket to power them.

The real problem with these is that they are only really effective at night. In daylight, the blinding effect of the LEDs is minimized.

Check out some of Larry Niven’s Known Space stuff. The Pak Protectors built Ringworlds and the Puppetteer homeworlds were moved into a Klemperer rosette formation so they could take them all with them as they fled the galaxy.

If you were to do that, the Goldilocks zone would move inward as the Sun’s energy output dropped. So all the life on Earth would still die because the Earth would freeze.

Still, since you have the tech to remove mass from a star, you would also surely have the ability to move the earth inward to keep it in the Goldilocks zone. But that still might not work. Being so much closer to the Sun, the Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere might not be sufficient to block flares and CMEs.

While they have similar life cycles, ending up as white dwarfs, red dwarfs are much less massive than our sun. Thus, our sun can’t turn into a red dwarf without somehow loosing a significant amount of mass.

Alos, in the case of our sun, before it becomes a white dwarf, it will balloon up into a red giant and consume everything out to about the orbit of Earth. Any life on Earth at that time will be wiped out even if the planet itself doesn’t get dragged down into the sun.

So fuck the 25+ percent who didn’t vote for Trump and were powerless to keep him out of office?

Reminds me of a line from Douglas Adams’ Life, the Universe, and Everything.

He dropped into a kind of alert crouch that he had once seen somebody do on television, but it must have been someone with stronger knees.

Could be. OP’s article mentions Uber, but also mentions speculation that it may have been Amazon. Either way, I’m torn between laughing at corporate stupidity and crying over the enormous waste of resources consumed by the AI usage.

Recently, Uber’s chief exec claimed there was no link between AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ and shipping useful products. It’s a phenomenon perhaps most keenly reported at Amazon (which some X users have speculated may be the mystery company in question), where employees are said to have been caught inflating AI token consumption to meet internal targets. In fact, a Financial Times report on Thursday indicates Amazon has scrapped its internal AI usage leaderboard to stop employees carrying out needless tasks in order to climb the league table.

Between November 2025 and March of this year, Rush asked for − and received − “a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses,” the affidavit in his case says.

A review of the government storage space where Rush was supposed to be storing the bars and money showed that most of it was missing, the affidavit says.

“Hey boss, I need 40 or 50 million worth of gold bars for… you know, that thing you need me to do.” I wonder who he was supposed to have bribed with all that gold.

The Youtube that secretly used AI to modify user’s videos without permission or notification ? That Youtube?

That’s Cadet Bonespurs. Don’t suggest Trump ever served or held any rank.