Anecdote - After TMI the NRC mandated that all nuclear plants install a system to automatically initiate auxiliary feed water to the steam generators if certain criteria were met. The Combustion Engineering version of this was called Aux Feed Actuation System or AFAS. During the next refueling outage it was being installed and I was giving lectures on it's design and operation (I had moved from operations to training by then) and the very first question from the very first operator training session was
"How do you turn it off". My answer was "you can't". They were not happy.
I don't think it's possible to exercise your way to weight loss. A handful of Oreo's will negate an hour workout. Simply cutting out as much added sugar as possible will drop weight quickly on just about anyone. Cutting out sugar isn't really a diet but more of a habit change. I'm not saying don't exercise, I'm saying both are necessary for results.
In Japan they shut down each plant yearly for inspection. Everywhere else it's done on the refueling cycle. The plant I worked at was on a two year cycle so each year one of the two plants shut down for about an 8 week refuel/overhaul outage.
I got a speeding in a school zone ticket and fought it because the points for that offence are high. The sign gave times the speed limit was in effect but I missed it and there were no other cars on the road so I didn't have that as a reference either. My lawyer argued that if the time of day was required knowledge there should have been a clock installed under the sign or some other visual alert. I got off.
I'm remembering back 40 years here. I worked in the engine room of a nuclear powered cruiser. We had a switch called something like "battle bypass" that would bypass all the auto scram functions. The military calls a shutdown scram while the commercial industry calls it trip. We had a captain rank captain and I believe all nuclear powered vessels had one.
South Texas is a 4 loop Westinghouse design and Palo Verde is a 2 loop System 80 Combustion Engineering design. Neither is experimental or unusually dangerous.
Licensed nuclear plant control room operators go through 40 hours of training every 6 week. Generally 5 weeks of operations rotation then 1 week of training, all year, every year. Twenty hours of classroom and 20 hours of simulator training, the week includs a written and simulator exam. Failing either and the operator is taken off shift until his remediation training is complete and exams passed.
If pilots rotated into training time these changes could be addressed in simulators on a scheduled basis the airline could plan for.
It wouldn't stabilize tracer rounds, it was perfectly fine with standard issue rounds. The manual bold close wasn't in Stoners original design, it was requested by the military. In my opinion the internal piston design is the true genius of this rifle. Recoil is almost straight back so follow up shots are much easier.
As the Russians seem to be moving to 5.56 the American military is looking to move to the 6mm class.
My first wife was an ER nurse then cardiac critical care. The doctors would look for her to talk to the families of patients who had died because they said she was good at it.
You can get breakfast at the Breakers for 50 bucks or the Waffle House down the street for 10 dollars. The Breakers waitstaff will get a 10 dollar tip and the Waffle house staff will get 2 dollars for the exact same meal and the exact same amount of work. It's a messed up system.
My youngest of 3 is now 32 years old. I've recently been thinking about the oft heard "I'm always amazed by the things my grown children remember and the things they don't". I've been trying to discover why they remember things I've forgotten, why that moment was so important to their young lives. We've started to talk about it, trying to find the base so they can use the lesson in their own child rearing.