The Gateway Arch is pretty neat. I’ve been there once, the entire city smelled like literal shit.

$70 million, if I remember correctly

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Agreed

Adding context: Alpha particles can kill you, and are actually more lethal than gamma because alpha has so much more mass than gamma.
Because of its size though, an alpha particule cannot penetrate your skin. However alpha is incredibly dangerous if you ingest it, giving it direct access to your soft internal organ tissue. When working jobs that had a risk of alpha contamination, we had to run constant air samples and take extra precautions to protect eyes/nose/mouth from an accidental “uptake.”
The good news is that alpha is only present really when you’re working on the core, or primary loop. This rarely happens outside of refueling outages. Gamma will be the concern the rest of the time.
Beta matters too, but as one might expect, beta is a little beta bitch.

So I used to be a radiation health physics technician in a commercial nuclear plant.
Most field instruments bottom out at 0.2 milliRem/hour. Whenever possible, we wanted areas to be <0.2. if an area was 0.3 or 0.5, we didn’t have to take any additional precautions being there because it’s still incredibly low. That being said, a lot of man hours and materials are used to turn 0.3-0.9 zones into <0.2 zones.
I don’t have the energy to look into these proposed changes, and I doubt they are good purely because of the current administration, but I could see scenarios where not needing to be ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) would save a lot of time and money without meaningfully endangering anyone.

Reading comprehension?

Probably would include someone who says “I am a socialist.” Hence calling it the Mamdani act.

Not being taught about the Golden Age is another one.

I remember my dad emptying his retirement savings in the wake of '08. Super fun to be experiencing all this again. Troops in the middle east for extra nostalgia.

Well they don’t do any maintenance. And considering the plant only gets built if the NRC says so, I think they’ll manage. NRC doesn’t fuck around. It’s also not a good look to Trump’s base to deregulate nuclear safety; they’re historically the ones more worried about that.

That’s what the NRC is for.

I feel like Zohran must have tried to appeal to Trump’s nostalgia for the city. Trying to, make it great again, perhaps? I can’t imagine any other way that Trump would suddenly be on board.