Yes. IAEA is monitoring the situation and compiled a report based on their findings, but it isn't their decision nor does the report represent an endorsement of the plan. I don't think I ever said that it was?
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Correct, but the water is processed to remove all the other radionuclides first. The really nasty stuff that causes all the horrible cancers and radiation burns and stuff is separated and stored/disposed of through other processes. That's the theory anyway, and based on the IAEA report seems to be the current practice as well. But this process is going to take years and since TEPCO is a publicly traded for-profit enterprise, concerns that cut corners and lax safety measures could lead to either untreated water or dangerous concentrations of tritiated water being released in the future aren't unfounded.
It makes me think of hydraulic fracturing. Pretty safe when done correctly, but profit-motivated corporations absolutely cannot be trusted to do things correctly. We can only hope that the ongoing IAEA oversight is enough. Or that the economic backlash is enough to convince the Japanese government to change course to a plan that it's neighbors can feel confident about.
Yeah. Theoretically, the water that's being released has been processed to remove all the nasty stuff though, all that remains is low concentrations of tritium. I don't know the precise details of Russia, China, and Korea's official concerns, but I suspect they're very concerned with the possibility that unprocessed wastewater could end up being dumped, intentionally or unintentionally.
People love overreacting to any high-profile nuclear energy news, especially when it has a political character. The IAEA has a comprehensive report on this (https://www.iaea.org/topics/response/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-accident/fukushima-daiichi-alps-treated-water-discharge) and, while I'm not a nuclear energy expert, just an enthusiast, it's all predictably mundane and low-risk and there's many, many far more dangerous sources of ocean pollution that never get nearly this amount of attention.
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For one thing, dumping into the ocean wasn't the only realistic option, vapor release was also an option. More expensive and harder to monitor, yes, but in the event of some kind of unlikely cataclysmic fuck-up (which has never happened in the history of nuclear energy, as we all know), the fallout would likely be more contained to Japan rather than distributed to every nearby country's seafood supply.
That Japan chose the option that saves money but, in an incredibly improbable worst case scenario, results in maximizing contamination to it's neighbors, was either extremely short sighted and stupid or intentionally inflammatory. Of course people in China were going to react this way. In all likelihood it's an overreaction but it's also a reaction that anyone with even a cursory knowledge of nuclear energy history could have predicted. Throw in the history of shit Japan has done to China and it's no wonder that they're furious for being expected to trust a Japanese corporation with their best interests.
That's the real issue here, and arguing over the technical details of safety doesn't address it. Japan had multiple options here, and chose self interest and cost cutting over cooperation with and consideration for it's neighbors, and China is perfectly justified in being unhappy with that outcome.
Glad you've had a good experience with it! My experience was also "it just works" up until April or so too. YMMV. I'm hopeful that it'll get there again, just been a rough few months especially for AMD CPUs and GPUs. Kernel 6.5 should at least put the AMD fTPM issues that have plagued us since 6.2 or so to rest finally.
I've been daily driving Nobara for almost 2 years now, and I love it, but I don't know if I'd call it noob friendly. Especially over the last several months, it's got a lot of little quirks and issues that can break the system if you're not keeping up with the Discord. For example, the KDE/Gnome graphical package managers are still included with the distro, but actually using them to update the system when they bug you about there being updates will cause problems. Bugged kernels and other packages get pushed out often enough that I don't update my system anymore without doing some research on the Discord channel first. I actually haven't updated in over a month now because the entire 6.4 kernel branch has just been issue after issue, haha.
It's probably the best distro out there for my needs and I'd love to recommend it but it's just got too many issues for me to recommend to a Linux novice in good conscience.
Does it strike anyone else as really odd how liberals seem to hold 1984 and Animal Farm in higher regard than, you know, actual history? "[Thing] is bad because it's just like [thing] in Animal Farm!" seems like the the most damning critique they can offer, after "the next Hitler" and "the next Holocaust" of course.
Yeah that's exactly what I meant, how well is the Chinese government attending to basic human needs.
As far as pressure to not rely on the state, where does that pressure come from? Is it from the state itself, or pressure from peers and cultural values? In the US there's strong pressure from both to not rely on the state, but even if you push through it you'll find that the state just can't be relied on anyway.
You can get a brand new compact car in the low $20,000 range. But those kinds of cars weren't really a thing in the early 70s as far as I know, so maybe they're trying to do a more apples-to-apples comparison with a big ass sedan with a big engine. Even then though, I'd think $35,000 or so would be a more reasonable figure.
With that said, I'm not sure what $30,000 bought you in 1973, but $400,000 feels pretty low to me if you want to live anywhere near a city and don't want to spend multiple hours per day driving to your job.
How are the rights of the poorest of the poor in China? In a lot of parts of the US, being out as queer puts you at high risk of homelessness and unemployment, especially if you're a teen, and that can be an extremely hard trap to escape. Marriage equality, access to HRT, etc. are important, but the US by design will not guarantee anyone the right to simple survival, and in my opinion that's the most basic and most important of LGBT rights.
Technically there is a reduction in performance as you fill the drive but, as far as I know, it's a pretty small difference in modern SSDs and you'll probably never notice it in real world usage. It might show up in synthetic benchmarks or server/database applications that involve moving huge amounts of data constantly.
An issue you may encounter in the real world is SLC cache saturation when writing data. Flash memory can basically kind of come in high density, or high speed, but not both. You trade off one for the other. Most SSDs have a mix of both, allowing rapid writes to the "fast" SLC memory, which will then get transferred to the "slow" TLC/QLC/PLC/etc. memory over time. Depending on the SSD model and how the manufacturer configured things, it's possible that if you're writing hundreds of gigabytes in one operation you'll completely fill the fast memory and your write speeds will plummet dramatically until the transfer is finished.
I'm not sure where it belongs because I don't understand what it is. I sure am enjoying it though!