The latest story about an airliner striking the EPR is especially irresponsible

You mean releasing the nuclear industry's own evaluation on an airliner striking a planned but unnecessary new nuclear plant is irresponsible? Not making that confidential? You have a strange concept of responsible.

the underlying issue (the fallout) was trivial in France

As the scandal is that there weren't even measurements, that's a tall claim.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}