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UK Sticks With Nuclear Power
Coisiche writes "Despite recent events in Japan and the certain public outcry that it will generate, the UK government proposes to build new nuclear power stations. Well, earthquakes and tsunamis are very rare here."
Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown. The eight cities included in the report are San Jose, Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Portland, Seattle, and Boise, and the time frame of the report included the ten weeks immediately following the disaster. Why have alarms not been sounded about radiation exposure in the US? Nuclear operator Exelon Corporation has been among Barack Obama's biggest campaign donors, and is one of the largest employers in Illinois where Obama was senator. Exelon has donated more than $269,000 to his political campaigns, thus far. Obama also appointed Exelon CEO John Rowe to his Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future.
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Funnily that was one strike that IRA always denied to have been theirs, and if you study the strikes that they did take credit for, this one was very clearly different. Instead of their classic "minimal casualties, maximum damage" doctrine, that one was exact opposite - material damage was fairly low, but casualties very high.
It was in fact often noted that the other side of the North Ireland conflict, Ulster's militias was far more likely to have been behind it to gain more support from Great Britain in its campaign against IRA. If that was the case, they succeeded in spectacular fashion.