thanks for the links > With nuclear energy, there came a requirement for more > authoritarianism, stronger vertical power structures. Why? Because > the potential for damage is huge. See, for example, the radioactive > boy scout, David Hahn [6]. I do recall that there was some similar > incident in Europe, but couldn't easily find the reference. Besides > requiring more authoritative power, nuclear energy is also related to > several disasters, and there is thenuclear waste problem.
I once talked to a random guy on my flight from Wien to Tokyo who happened to be travelling from an International Atomic Energy Agency meeting. He was working for the Japanese government as a regulator trying to restart Japanese nuclear powerplants. He was annoyed about opposition from local people. He worked for Toshiba in his previous job. (regulating his previous self?) The Westinghouse fiasco did not bother him too much, just commented that there was an avoidable issue with the contract. I think the problem with nuclear is more human than technical. It is the problem of corruption, likely due to such level of centralisation, concentration of power, scale and magnitude of possible damage, as you suggest. I remember reading about another guy from Hitachi working on the steel containment vessel. It was a good read. Found it: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/fukushima-engineer-says-he-covered-up-flaw-at-shut-reactor.html Also "solving" the problem of nuclear waste by shiping it to Mongolia speaks for itself: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/09/energy-nuclear-mongolia-idUSL3E7G80HD20110509 It is a shame, really. We did cycle today to see sakura blossom in Berlin and it was amazing. Clean air, clear sky, no airplains... I wish we had clean energy. > With LibreCMC interesting I use openwrt on some routers. Do you run picolisp on librecmc or openwrt? which picolisp? -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
