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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • Someone didn’t actually read the article, dang op. You can do better.

    It’s not that the power plant depended on the weather, but rather that the river life depended on not being boiled alive. Just like a coal or gas power plant, water is needed for cooling, which means the waste heats ends up in a nearby river.

    But unlike coal or gas, nuclear doesn’t also produce a tonne of carbon dioxide. And oddly enough, a coal power plant would be more radioactive than a nuclear plant.
















  • Humans are quite a bit more complicated. I’d gladly go into depth sometime, but I don’t think I can oversimplify the situation to match your statement.

    Some of this behaviour has to do with (a bunch of) hormones, but also just homeyness, blood pressure, social ideas in their community, and in part just dumb luck. Humans are not the most precisely predictable things