The threat can’t be ignored. As water continues to recede, the fear is that “the fission reaction accelerates exponentially,” Hyatt says, leading to “an uncontrolled release of nuclear energy.” There’s no chance of a repeat of 1986, when the explosion and fire sent a radioactive cloud over Europe. A runaway fission reaction in an FCM could sputter out after heat from fission boils off the remaining water. Still, Saveliev notes, although any explosive reaction would be contained, it could threaten to bring down unstable parts of the rickety Shelter, filling the NSC with radioactive dust.

A Philadelphia district attorney candidate on his campaign website is addressing the death of a woman whose body was found in his home. Charles Peruto Jr.'s website features multiple sections, including ones titled "Black Lives Matter," "The Opioid Crisis" and, on his "About Me" page, "The Girl in My Bathtub."

The Biden team has hired a slate of immigration judges initially selected during the Trump era, angering advocates who argue the White House is already failing to deliver in its pledge to push back against the prior administration's shaping of the

From reports of kids fainting to transfers in the middle of the night, the place is more like a jail than a shelter, insiders say.

Foods that were once popular in the Great Depression are making a comeback in 2020, as bare shelves and panic buying have made people get creative in the kitchen. Depression-era foods like meatloaf, water pie, and baked beans are weirdly making a comeback onto dinner tables in America.

I’m still laughing as I remember how once around 1970 or ’71, my friend Chiqui paid his overdue rent in Austin by selling a “Peyote Gardens” map. His hand drawn chart showed the area southeast of Laredo on the old Loop 20 and the El Rancho Drive-In Theater. He scrawled an X on a random spot there. Who knows? There may actually have been a peyote plant or two growing on the other side of the ranch’s barbed wire fence. The fifty photocopies at $1.50 apiece sold out in twenty minutes on The Drag in front of the University Co-op store, and Chiqui satisfied his landlord. The poor South Laredo rancher, however, had a heck of a time with the plague of hippies who suddenly descended and scrambled over his property, eyes to the ground, looking for the little psychedelic cactus knobs under the mesquite. Odds are the gullible heads stumbled across more rattlesnakes than Lophophora williamsii. Poor stoners, they had to drive back to Austin for the Shiva’s Headband concert at the Vulcan Gas Company empty-handed —and equally empty-headed. Fortunately for Chiqui, with courses to pass and burgers to flip at Les Amis, none of his cognitively-impaired victims ever recognized him on Guadalupe as the phony peyote map guy.

Visitors to Dracula's castle are more likely to find puncture marks in their arms than their necks this month, after medics set up a COVID-19 vaccination centre at the Transylvanian attraction.

More than 200 outbreaks of avian influenza across Poland over the past few months have sparked fears of a shortage of cuts imported into the UK. .. I am worried that food security may soon be a much bigger concern than Covid.

While some employers may be struggling to hire for one reason or another, economists say generous unemployment benefits are not the cause.

His fellow pilots fired on the terrified French airman for 20 minutes of the incident in March 2019, according to the man's lawyers.

The former police chief of Chadbourn, North Carolina, has been indicted on 88 felony counts, authorities said Friday. William Anthony Spivey is accused of destroying evidence, embezzling state property, trafficking in opium, and obstructing justice, among other offenses, according to the Brunswick County District Attorney. Prosecutors say Spivey stole guns from the department’s evidence lockup, and sold several to “friends, family members and acquaintances.”

The operator of the system, Colonial Pipeline, said it had halted systems for its 5,500 miles of pipeline, which takes refined gasoline and jet fuel along the East Coast.

When human rights lawyer Steven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the oil giant Chevron, the company retaliated by setting out to destroy Donziger’s life. Now in his twentieth month of house arrest on the orders of a Chevron-linked judge, his Kafkaesque story is a window into the corrupt and corporate-captured US legal system.

The texts of three top Seattle leaders during a contentious period last year weren't retained and now can't be reviewed, attorneys suing the city say they recently learned.

Editorial staff members at Washingtonian are refusing to publish online on Friday after the D.C.-based magazine’s chief executive wrote an opinion piece about the future of remote work that generated an immediate backlash. Cathy Merrill, the chief executive of Washingtonian Media, wrote in The Washington Post on Thursday that she was “concerned about the unfortunately common office worker who wants to continue working at home and just go into the office on occasion.” Ms. Merrill wrote that by choosing to continue to work from home, employees are offering executives “a tempting economic option the employees might not like.” Employees who are not in the office are not able to participate in what she called “extra” responsibilities, such as mentoring junior co-workers, helping a colleague, or celebrating a birthday, she explained, and managers may thus be less inclined to continue providing these workers with the status, and benefits, of being a full-time employee. “If the employee is rarely around to participate in those extras, management has a strong incentive to change their status to ‘contractor,’” she wrote.

A few sentences have shaken a century of science. Last Friday, more than a year after the World Health Organization declared that we face a pandemic, a page on its website titled “Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19): How Is It Transmitted?” got a seemingly small update. The agency’s response to that question had been that “current evidence suggests that the main way the virus spreads is by respiratory droplets” — which are expelled from the mouth and quickly fall to the ground — “among people who are in close contact with each other.” The revised response still emphasizes transmission in close contact but now says it may be via aerosols — smaller respiratory particles that can float — as well as droplets. It also adds a reason the virus can also be transmitted “in poorly ventilated and/or crowded indoor settings,” saying this is because “aerosols remain suspended in the air or travel farther than 1 meter.” The change didn’t get a lot of attention. There was no news conference, no big announcement. But this latest shift challenges key infection control assumptions that go back a century, putting a lot of what went wrong last year in context. It may also signal one of the most important advancements in public health during this pandemic.

Musk’s comments do not match the "engineering reality."

A former Netflix executive was convicted of taking bribes and kickbacks from vendors doing business with the company, according to the US Department of Justice. Michael Kail, who was Netflix’s vice president of information technology operations from 2011 to 2014, was found guilty by a jury of money laundering, and wire and mail fraud. According to the DOJ, Kail used his position at the company to “unlock a stream of cash and stock kickbacks” for himself Netflix sued Kail in 2014 claiming he hid payments from vendors by directing them to his personal consulting company. According to the DOJ, Kail accepted bribes totaling more than $500,000, as well as stock options from nine tech companies that provided products or services to Netflix. Kail’s attorney Julia Mezhinsky Jayne said in a statement emailed to The Verge that they were disappointed in the verdict, which she called “inexplicable and clearly unsupported by the actual evidence and the law.” They plan to appeal. Jayne said Kail was “a tremendous asset to Netflix and helped drive their success as a cutting-edge technology company.” Netflix did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.

As GE began its long, slow decline, so did the popularity of the once dominant management system...Welch admitted that much of the statistical underpinning of the system went over his head, but he hired the Motorola manager who ran that company’s Six Sigma Academy to make it work at GE. To drive home its importance, Welch determined that 40% of employees’ bonuses would be tied to Six Sigma, and that stock options would be reserved only for managers in black belt training...The company’s market cap, which reached a high of nearly $600 billion in mid-2000, sank to around $60 billion late last year.

The bill also allows for patients with nine debilitating illnesses to possess cannabis oil that consists of 0.9% or less THC, the primary psychoactive component of marijuana. That amount constitutes a low dose of THC, slightly above the current legal amount of 0.3% for hemp oil. The patients have to have a letter from a doctor — valid only for six months at a time — attesting that they have one of the conditions and that other conventional methods of treatment have already been tried.