my dearest friend lost her father (a nuclear engineer) to thymus cancer when she was 12 and he was in his thirties. she remembers him telling her how rules and safety measures were routinely abused, dodged and flouted by employees.

perhaps it is better now, and this is hearsay.

humans are not very good at following rules 100% of the time, and the risks of nuclear electricity generation do not allow slack or play.

Vivian Norris: Here Comes the Sun: Tunisia to Energize Europe

TuNur will benefit Tunisia by creating jobs and spurring investments in local education to aid the long term management of the plants after 2016... With this important first step, we are showing the world's governments, industries and consumers that what many thought to be science fiction is actually science fact. We hope that this is the first of many more such plants to be built in the desert regions of the world.

This week in Tunis, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, saw visits from the likes of Google's Eric Schmidt and the IMF's Christine Lagarde, as local members of civil society from Tunisia, members of both the traditional and renewable energy private sector, young business leaders, diplomats, NGOs focused on Green issues, and journalists, primarily from Africa and the Arab world, gathered to discuss the TuNur project and exchange ideas about how North Africa can look towards a stronger more stable economic future through true win-win collaborations.

If the disturbing story of how one Tunisian citizen lost hope, his economic livelihood destroyed and his family's future placed in peril, can serve as a lesson to what would best help the region, i.e. economic opportunity and growth, then may the memories of the martyrs of the Tunisian revolution live on through a better future for Tunisia and its people. Through utilizing local partners and management to develop the project, setting up new manufacturing industries (for example for the flat plate mirrors needed by TuNur), economic growth is assured. Up to five years of construction translating as up to 20,000, as well as hundreds of long term jobs and revenues for local governments, this North-South collaboration is not only needed but should be encouraged and replicated around the world.

why not go with the flow, and quit touting tech that can lay waste to all that makes life worth living?

methinks your faith is wildly misplaced, notwithstanding your excellent communication skills and marshalling of factoids to support your arguments.

your growing appreciation for the possibilities of other methodologies is noted, happily.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty