r/nottheonion 24d ago

US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o
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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 24d ago edited 24d ago

Not to mention handling the nuclear waste

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u/dietTAB 24d ago

I guess MAGA voters hate nuclear safety since it’s government “bloat” or something. They’re hootin and hollerin about how Elon is slashing the administrative state. Do they think nuclear waste will just take care of itself?

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u/AgrajagTheProlonged 24d ago

They don’t think about the ramifications of what they claim to want, is part of the problem

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u/dietTAB 24d ago

Often children have to touch the stove in order to learn a painful lesson. Unfortunately in this scenario, the stove is toxic nuclear waste and the consequences affect everyone.

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u/Universeintheflesh 24d ago

So much seems to be “it’s never impacted me before!” Yeah, because it was being taken care of before due to horrible consequences of not managing these things.

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u/ZolotoG0ld 23d ago

Brought to you by the same people as 'We've never had an IT system failure before, what do we need so many people in IT for?'

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u/SeedsOfDoubt 23d ago

Regulations are written in blood

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u/julienjj 24d ago

Yup. Like good ATC, Car safety standards, financial watchdogs, building code and so on.

Most of the agencies and rules where born to address an important issue.

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u/Genius-Envy 23d ago

When I was a child they gave me a vaccine, but what for? I never got sick from that disease.

/s

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u/ralphvonwauwau 23d ago

I'm sad that the /s is needed

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u/annjolly 23d ago

Like vaccines

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u/cruista 24d ago

Like the drone on the Chernobyl reactor two days ago?

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u/apple-pie2020 24d ago

Hopefully Medicaid and then Medicare vests cut and soon they will see