Want an example for "Desaster waiting to happen"? Since Fukushima the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Reaktorsicherheitskomission) of the USA, has prolonged the licenses of no less than 5 old nuclear clunker plants with decaying nuts&bolts, for another 20 years (after their previous 40), without demanding any safety measures being taken or ( Read more... )

Following the truth&dare challenge by John Scalzi in his blog and the great and wild responses in the 170 comments there and here and elsewhere, I decided to have a go at this as well.

Feel free to take up the challenge and answer here or post your list in your LJ oder Blog or Facebook Notes.

• 1) special compliment: been told by an active head of ( Read more... )

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