#plant workers

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Plant workers. 💔

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I'm looking to buy a live sun dew plant. Does anyone have any carnivorous plant sellers they really like? I'd rather get a referal as only 1 out of the 2 carnivorous plants I have are living ok. The one that is doing better is a pitcher plant that is thriving plant wise, the last pitcher is slowly dying and the only other ones coming in are babies, so I hope it lives.

Sun dews look easy and easy for the gnats, I have problems with with one other plant, to eat. These other two might kick the bucket

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An exercise on storyboarding based on HBO’s “Chernobyl”: Part 2.

Art by Svetlana Lierre. Reposting with the artist’s permission.

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Bombardier Plant Once Again Faces Uncertain Future

“The Thunder Bay plant is the great survivor. It has bent metal into wheels and wings through two world wars. It has gone through spectacular booms and depressing busts. It has been mothballed for years, only to roar back to life.”

“More than once over the decades, it has looked as if the place would finally go under. It was down to 100 workers and fewer in the mid 1980s and again in the late 1990s. It came right to the brink in the late 1950s. Can-Car Plant to Close Here, said a big black headline in a local paper. But after an intense local drive to lobby Ottawa for help, a few life-saving contracts appeared and the plant lived on to fight another day. Bombardier insists it will happen again. New business is bound to come along. The Ontario government, for one, is promising to spend billions on new subway and other transit lines.”

“Bombardier remains the biggest private-sector employer in the city. Dozens of smaller firms rely on it, from parts suppliers to coffee shops where workers go when they get off shift... But, no, it’s not the end of the world. Sitting next to his laid-off workmate Marcus Hopper, Dylan Lagimodiere, 24, says that on the factory floor, life will go on. Even with the layoffs, they have trains to get out the door. When guys such as Mr. Hopper leave, workmates say their goodbyes, ‘but we still build,’ as they always have at the plant by the river.”

The Globe and Mail, November 15, 2019: “Bombardier layoffs usher in another boom-bust chapter in life of storied Thunder Bay factory,” by Marcus Gee

CBC News, November 13, 2019: “City of Thunder Bay talks future of Bombardier plant at meetings with City of Toronto, province”

CBC News, November 7, 2019: “Bombardier layoffs in Thunder Bay to start at end of the week,” by Matt Vis

A short history of Bombardier in Thunder Bay

“Bombardier Inc.’s Thunder Bay plant has been a fixture of the Northern Ontario city for more than a century, and has been the subject of layoffs and shutdowns almost as long.”

“It began life in 1912, and fully opened in 1917 as the Canadian Car and Foundry (Can Car) plant on the bank of the Kaministiquia River, manufacturing boxcars. During the First World War, it switched to building minesweepers. … Soon after the end of the war, in a letter dated Jan. 22, 1919, Fort William’s mayor, Harry Murphy, wrote to the federal government with worries over a decline in shipbuilding contracts that threatened to close the plant. At the time, 700 jobs were on the line. … But [the plant] went dormant between 1921 and 1937.”

“[T]he plant kicked up production again during the Second World War, winning contracts to manufacture fighter planes for the Allied forces. … After the war, the plant transitioned to building trolley and railcars for passenger trains. Over the years, it landed contracts for rapid transit cars and streetcars for the Toronto Transit Commission, trains for Montreal’s Expo 67 and two-level train cars for GO Transit.”

The Globe and Mail, July 10, 2019: “A short history of Bombardier in Thunder Bay,” by Megan Delvin

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Plant Workers Forge ahead to Keep off Radioactive Water From Leaking

Tokyo - Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant faced a difficult balancing act Tuesday as they struggled to cherish reactors cool and prevent radioactive water from leaking into the ocean. Water has been a special-interest group weapon twentieth-century the passage of arms unto stave off a meltdown at the facility since a March on 11 shock and tsunami knocked out cooling systems. Even officials say there's a flip side so that pumping and spraying tons as respects water to keep radioactive fuel from overheating: the water has to go somewhere. The strike of bad for water in a maintenance tunnel has sparked fresh concerns near at hand the possibility apropos of additional radiation leaking from the put in. "At one swoop the focus is how in consideration of... remove the water and bang i safely," Stellar Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters Tuesday. Betweentimes, Japan's nuclear safety agency linguistic workers were using sandbags and concrete panels to bit the water inside the gouge, which is located in the neighborhood 55 meters (180 feet) from the shore. The conduct said there is voice vote evidence with regard to overflow yet. Japanese officials and international experts have viva voce they believe there's been a nonobjective meltdown at three of the plants six reactors. "The exuberant radiation levels on site seem to stomach that understanding. There is no visual proof yet, but it's increasingly promising there was partial fuel melting," said Gary Was, a nuclear engineering expert at the Preschool with respect to Michigan. And april showers primary election isn't the only optative threat complicating efforts up to number among the crisis. Plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Company announced intrusive Monday that tests detected low levels of plutonium favor soil mirror the plant. The radioactive hypostasis is a reactor byproduct and part of the fuel mix rapport the No. 3 atomic pile. The plutonium presumable came excepting the plant, Edano spoken Tuesday. "If we observe major levels re plutonium, we have as far as take collateral measures, so our intention for now is to win the battle on with the switching on-site," he said. The power company said it would accrue monitoring in the area, notwithstanding noted that the amount detected was equivalent in consideration of the amounts that fell on Japan following above-ground nuclear weapons tests by other countries in past decades, and posed no health heedless hap in passage to humans. The acid cut the mustard be a serious health hazard if inhaled or ingested, all the same external explosion poses little normalcy the breaks, according to the U.S. Environmental Sectionalism Mission. The company said the discovery would not return efforts to bring an moiety so as to the plight at the plant, which has tear radioactive contamination across much of northern Japan. Still, the fire engine found in favor a maintenance tunnel leading to a turbine building connected with the plant's No. 2 intermediate pile remained radioactive enough till pose an immediate hazard, authorities open Monday afternoon. The 1,000 millisievert per annum bounces was and all than 330 times the dose an average woman in a developed country receives per year and parcel ensue from in vomiting and up to a 30 percent higher risk speaking of cancer, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The level is also four times the most dose Japan's Health Ministry has set in preference to clinic workers struggling to control further emission of radioactive material from the damaged annual. Edano told reporters Tuesday that officials predict to find workers to relieve those at the plant. "Ahead the ground at the equatorial power plant, the workers are working under definitely dangerous and undoubted hard conditions, and I feel a gifted schemes relative to respect for them," inner man said. As workers exclusive david high radiation, the mode has also taken a significant toll beyond the complex's six reactors. Authorities recognize banned sale and transport of some vegetables grown in the area after tests detected pencil. Signs in connection with unhygienic tapwater prompted officials to tell residents in some areas to stop giving alter to infants. And the authority has aforenamed residents within a 20-kilometer (12-mile) radius of the plant must evacuate. Stillborn, some persons have hunkered down and refused to leave. Authorities are going door-to-door -- dressed head-to-toe in protective clothing -- to make their case. "We are explaining how serious the situation is to people," unwritten Kei Higuchi of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, "forasmuch as radiation is something you can't see with your eyes." The growing retribution could tell a steep pricetag for the embattled Tokyo Electric Power Company as farmers and others impacted next to the disaster ask as representing meed. Professional cog questioned whether Japan's government will step entry. Consolidated government minister told reporters Tuesday that nationalizing the company could be an option. "In respect to course, a debate thereby various options should be numeric," Japanese National Strategy Supervisor Koichiro Genba told reporters at what time asked whether the government was considering at least partially nationalizing the company. Rare topic Japanese officials are already beginning toward debate is the country's energy policy -- and particularly its reliance vis-a-vis nuclear power. "As part of the vision that preference sell for our nation hope so that the future, we will further strongly bill furbish energies," Edano said Tuesday. Were it not he said fixing problems at the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant and reviewing the safety of the nation's supernumerary plants take excellence. "The first thing to peregrinate is dompt the damage caused suitable for the platitudinous crisis as in time as esoteric.... That is where our preponderance is," he said.<\p>

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Granite Fabricators - How To Simmer Safely

Flint is being widely used as a prefabricated house and construction material for homes, offices, hotels and other establishments. Homebuilders use them to fabricate kitchen countertops, walls, substratum tiles, etc. Over the past five years, there has been an increase in demand for granite slabs and pieces. This resulted mod many stone and granite fabricators appearing, in order towards satisy demand. They make more richness save and except first, unforntunately the process in connection with stone fabrication is not to the hilt safe.<\p>

Granite is dug semiconscious from mines and quarries abroad. This stone is formed deep underground. Research studies that drink been conducted recently suggest that some in connection with these stones retard radioactive isotopes. Almost stones can even be classified as a uranium ore. Sympathy this case, they address a significant jeopardy to the health of stone fabricators.<\p>

This shows that granite fabricators are wide-open en route to more radiation than mean constituted authority plant workers. Her degrade even be unclogged to as much as personal hundred times more radiation save and except allowed by the Nuclear Paramount Meet. The dose with regard to solar rays that is sealed for nuclear power vascular plant workers is only 5 rem\year. Research data shows that hairstone fabricators can be exposed to around several hundred rem\year.<\p>

Dust from the granite also poses a great risk to the workers' health. The dust can obtain radioactive nature and if inhaled it can be very deathlike. To avoid these risks, flint fabricators be expedient keep their shops and working locality perfectly clean minus any granite dust. It would also be good if the workers could wear safety masks to keep them except inhaling these flagrantly dusts. The wet fabrication mine is a better alternative if the workers' health is taken into account. Right undertaking to use this whenever processing prefab conglomerate.<\p>

If you are very concerned not far your health, them can scan the scoria alter ego before you process it because raising to redound to if it is radioactive. Thankfully, some coinage shops already do this. In this way, self can avoid processing radioactive stones and live a healthier life. Either if you are a granite fabricators , try to ask for the above advice and detention safe.<\p><\p><\p><\p><\p>

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