Jeff Brumfield
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The Aircraft Impact Assessment Rule requires that nuclear plants be hardened to defend against a 9-11-style attack by a large airplane.
The rule's been in place for over a decade, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission now says it's no longer needed.
According to a posting in the Federal Register, the agency feels that other existing rules provide sufficient safety requirements.
The public has until January 2nd of 2026 to comment on the proposed end to the rule.
The decision to get rid of the aircraft impact requirement comes as the Trump administration seeks a major overhaul of nuclear regulations in the U.S.
Many of those changes are expected to come out early next year.
The new feature was rolled out late last week.
It allows users on X to see where different accounts are based, and not all is what it seems.
One account calling itself American was based in Pakistan.
Other accounts pushing politically divisive content were in Nigeria and Bangladesh.
Darren Linville is at Clemson University.
He says many of these accounts are stirring up political tensions for likes, follows, and ultimately cash.
X appears to have suspended several accounts linked to such efforts.
For his part, Linville welcomes the newfound transparency, which is increasingly rare to see online.
SpaceX was conducting pre-launch testing of the latest version of a super-heavy booster rocket when something went terribly wrong.
The booster is designed to lift the company's Starship spacecraft into orbit, but in this test on the ground, it ruptured, causing a huge explosion.
In a statement, SpaceX said the booster failed during structural testing and that no one was injured.
The Starship program has had a mix of successful and failed launches this year.