A new nuclear fuel cycle providing acceptable and reliable back-end solutions will be essential to sustain dynamic growth in global nuclear energy, Liudmila Zalimskaya, general director of JSC Tenex, told the World Nuclear Association’s Symposium in London last week. Proposed approaches centre on reprocessing and recycling of used fuel, allowing uranium and plutonium resources to be used to their fullest extent while reducing the amounts of waste for disposal. Tenex is the nuclear fuel cycle product supplier subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.

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Back Pain and Back Strength | Mark Rippetoe

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There are times when The Conventional Wisdom and The Reality of the Situation are at odds. Our recent presidential election provides a poignant example, as does the idea that running makes you skinny, that little kids always tell the truth, and that we have to pass another law so you’ll stop doing things we don’t like.

Source: Back Pain and Back Strength | Mark Rippetoe

San Francisco moving toward opening nation’s 1st safe injection clinic – San Francisco Chronicle

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San Francisco political leaders have been steadily coming around to the idea of opening safe injection centers where addicts could shoot drugs in a controlled situation instead of outside on the sidewalk. And now, it seems, they won’t let state or federal law get in their way. “We’ve got to take chances,” said Board of Supervisors President London Breed, who in April became an unexpected champion of safe injection drug sites and was behind the creation of a task force that’s expected to recommend opening them. That attitude isn’t new. San Francisco has ignored state and federal law before, when it started a needle exchange program, opened medical cannabis clubs and married same-sex couples.

Source: San Francisco moving toward opening nation’s 1st safe injection clinic – San Francisco Chronicle