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CDN Forces Reactor Online Against Safety Regulations
Socguy writes "The Canadian government has passed legislation that will reopen an Ontario nuclear reactor that produces most of the world's supply of critical medical isotopes, even though the site has been shut down for safety maintenance. Witnesses and experts were called in to the House to face questions about safety concerns and all parties eventually voiced support for the bill, which would effectively suspend CNSC's oversight role for 120 days. The Chalk River reactor ceased operating on Nov. 18. Pressure on the government to restart operations began to build after delays in the shutdown of the government-run site, which generates two-thirds of the world's radioisotopes, began to cause a critical shortage of radioisotopes."
Then someone asked the question : why don't they make a four-month-reserve?
The answer IS 42.
Actually, Chernobyl set this precedent already.
Scientists: "No, we can't run the reactor safely at that capacity."
Government: "Mother Russia needs those Megawatts beotch."
Reactor: "Poof! Now your faces will melt and your kids won't have arms."
...especially when the reactor is not near me.
Observe the current quote at the bottom of the page:
"Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it. -- Linus Torvalds"
Unfortunately, this doesn't work for generators, nor does it for reactors.
"There are four boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order." - Ed Howdershelt
Maybe the plan is to deal with the isotope shortage by putting isotopes EVERYWHERE ...
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
It's not that after 6 hours you can throw half of the bottles away and the other half is magically still fresh.
-- Cheers!
Thank you mighty moderator manager.