Only because of the design. If you spread the fuel out enough it stops fissioning and then you only have residual heat to deal with.

In a nuclear disaster, proximity means within a couple hundred miles or so. The only difference having the plant in the middle of town makes is you get more safety features.

The problem in Japan was they couldn't think of a way to recharge the batteries powering the backup cooling system, like using long jumper cables from cars.

This Heaven sounds like a horrible place. All Gods laws enforced (no extra-marital sex, no porn, no seductively clad young girls), and the preachy holyer-than-though types run the place.

If congress defunds the CIA, and the CIA keeps going (due to drug money or something) what happens then?

Sanitation and hygene doubled human life expectancy (35 to 70 years). Nothing else we've done comes close.

The virus appears to be good at hiding in non-blood body fluids. That might include spinal fluid, brain fluid, and several internal organs. Maybe this is how HIV survives so well.

Setting up a data centre on the arctic tundra would cut way down on cooling bills, unlike putting it in the desert. Also nobody "wants" to put their data in the USA. Third, if you live or work in a 5 eyes country your data is already in the NSA data hoover system.

The fact that north american customers don't get that choice probably indicates the US government has already ordered them to hand over all data. The fact that an American court has already ordered another company (MS) working in Ireland to hand over data indicates Ireland isn't far enough for security.

TV is a high profit partially exclusive business with little competition, internet is a low profit comodity with lots of competition. Why would anyone choose to abandon all that money?

Religion thrives on ignorance, the best way to eradicate it is to educate everyone on earth.

Persecution of "innocent people" (people who are ignoring you) will often convince those people to try to harm you. Persecution of those who attack you doesn't change anything but the degree they hate you, they are already attacking you and anyone willing to listen to them has already done so.

The H1B program is making the problem worse. The corporations have the choice of training an American or hiring a fully trained foreigner. Once they hire the H1B worker they won't also do the training, and no American is going to spend lots of money in self training for a job that's filled: so no American will ever arrise to take that job. Hiring an H1B worker makes that temporary skill shortage permanent.

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait both have a huge guest worker system. Simple solution: make a minimum wage for H1B workers of 100,000 dollars per year and automatic citizenship after 4 years employment.

testing your drinking water and publishing the results shouldn't violate trade secret laws.