What he meant was that since it has flown, it must have passed all the required stress tests since this is a requirement for it to get off the ground at all.
I would guess the ground tests are designed to stress the materials way harder than they ever will be in the air, but of course this does not mean the plane as a whole is safe.

Nuking a city would in my mind imply an explosion created by nuclear reactions. The explosion in Chernobyl was created by good old chemical reactions (hydrogren gas).

Sorry if I'm being ignorant, but is there a chance this will be available in Europe? I understand the regular netflix service of mailing DVDs to you is only available in the US, but are there any obstacles to making the streaming service available elsewhere?

Force? My second will be called Kerrigan btw.

Correction: Switzerland is a part of Europe. It is, however, not a part of the European Union.

There is nothing inherently unprofitable about nuclear power. I don't know how the situation with regulation, taxes etc on it is in the US (where I presume you are from) which might make it unprofitable there. Do you have any good sources for this information?

I work in nuclear power in Sweden, and the power companies here drool at the prospect of building a new reactor. And if and when the government allows such an endeavor, it will not be subsidized by tax payer money in any way. There is even a law that a certain amount of money per kWh has to go to a (public) fund that will be used in the future for final storage and such to handle the waste.

I hear this anti-nuclear argument that it is unprofitable all the time. But the simple fact is, that if the profit-driven power companies are willing to completely fund the construction, running, decommisioning of a reactor as well as the waste handling... there must be profit in it.

What PachmanP said was, if the degree is actually negative when applying for those jobs, you could just leave it out of your resume.

If by harmlessly you mean evaporates while producing cracks in the floor, then yes :) In our lab the floor is in very bad shape where the nitrogen-cooled detectors are usually placed, however YMMV depending on the type of floor I guess.

Well, greener energy or not, it's certainly easier than putting a nuclear power plant on your roof.

The AP1000 (which is plant they are building) produces 1150 MW. I don't know where the 12 MW figure comes from, but it is incorrect.

The AP1000 produces 1150 MWe (megawatts electric). The 12.7 MW figure is either wrong or has to do with the start-up phase.