Requiem for a Nuclear Plant

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Chiarelli said that some insiders are pushing for a go-slow approach.

When I retired from the Big Company, I thought the new nuclear plant would give me extra income.  Alas, it never came, and now looks like it never will.  :(

The only solution that would have worked would have been 4 Chinese AP1000's on the Wesleyville site.  We would poach thousands of Chinese engineers, just like we poached from Britain for the existing nuclear plants.  Unfortunately, politics caused things to drift to an impossible configuration.

My birthday earthquakes

I'll accept these two beauties as my birthday earthquakes.  Below M2, they only exist because of dense instrumentation.  Still they are part of the group triggered by the dammed lake.  We hope they are not part of a growing mechanism and everything continues to stay at the 2 level.  I often wonder what Virginia would have looked like had they such instruments before that M6.

Linux is kind to old machines

I have an old amd64 single processor machine which I just use mainly as a disk farm.  I had no trouble putting on the latest kernel 3.9 and it runs better.  Try that with other operating systems!  Perhaps this is kinder to the planet.  :)