I was also surprised by the courage of the engineers who tried to contain the disaster.

In light of maracatu's video (open thread tonight) of the more than 2,000 nuclear tests, not a few of them atmospheric, i wonder about what counts as normal background radiation from the pro-nuke side.

i'm wondering what poisonous gems have been hidden by the British gov on the Windscale "event."

And i really wonder about the people who can't get their heads around the lack of difference between nuclear weapons and nuclear power. It's not about technical disconnection between the two, or how safe producing power has now become, it's about the civilization's inability to deal with what's unleashed.

i know what i'm talking about. windpower has studied wind turbine loads for decades, over hundreds of thousands of turbines. we've had tens of thousands of top engineers investigating all anomalies, and incorporating that into design criteria. and we still lost an entire rotor on a 2.1 MW turbine a coupladaysago.

it seems you can't fight technological hubris with data, or logic.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin