The IEEFA isn't enthusiastic: https://ieefa.org/resources/small-modular-reactors-still-too...

Recyclable blades are gaining traction: RecyclableBlade, ZEBRA, PECAN...

There even are efforts to recycle existing ones: https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/02/08/newly-discovered-che...

In most advanced nations landfilling them is prohibited, and many are now burnt in cement kilns.

There is an official report detailing why the project in France (the Flamanville-3 EPR) failed, published at (French ahead!) https://www.economie.gouv.fr/rapport-epr-flamanville , and regulations aren't a major cause (translating the summary offers a good overview).

The Ohio nuclear bribery scandal is another case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal

Yes, even in South Korea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_nuclear_scandal

Nobody knows for sure, but the sole nuclear accident cleanup operations may cost $470 to $660 billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident_cle...

> Automated VACUUM ANALYZE operations scheduled via pgcron targeting write-heavy tables

Why don't you set (per table) the autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor parameter (or autovacuum_analyze_threshold) then let AUTOVACUUM handle this?

Heraclitus summarized it 25 centuries ago: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

Did you ensure that this cat didn't try elsewhere, first?

Hypothesis: you have (or had) at least a cat at home, while your neighbors didn't, and a cat showing up on your front porch may think "better here because at least a cat can live here, even if it triggers a territorial conflict".

Yeah I guess that's part of my curiosity and how one might set up a test case - did they come to my house because they detected the cat hormones at my house?

Is the load factor of those Japanese machines similar to those used in the US? Isn't life expectancy multifactorial?

The load factor would need to be lower than one third of the US to balance it out, which I'd claim is quite unlikely.

And yeah of course it's multifactorial. It'd make more sense to look at cancer data specifically, but I don't have that at hand. However, cancer is a leading factor in lifespan limits…

Simplification leads to automation, which is one of the main factor of efficiency. Means goal and end goal...

Efficiency is always at odds with robustness, and it may be the ultimate challenge.

Some Japanese firms may also have adopted ole' USDA approach as I remember reading during the 80's that some Japanese big motorbike brand team in charge of the design of a new model was composed of teams of engineers, each dedicated to a given aspect (even transversal ones, there even was a team dedicated to 'temperature').