Yeah, but it looks like you're against dogfood because it's made of meat (bones, connective tissue, prions, whatever,) too. (And really, you can't pick wild grocery supply trucks off the freeway without a really big dog, plus this keen license I got from a former...oh. Well, at least the dog.) Supposing that it is never NOT going to be in an earthquake zone, how do your misgivings (Merkel eter alia) actually lay out/stand/hang/throw up beach umbrellas? That is, what political and business pressures make the NRC look like an ETF or plain old F?

So, they have backup coolant, but their old metal coolant containment donut (in one case at least) was KO'd by seismic stir-frying (and neutrons in the ice machine.) Why isn't the thing cooled by frobbing the remaining steam loop? Was sieving flowing water (for which some thanks, everyone who did) for fluid motion transfer of some sort not in the cards and spares budget? Is the sad guy of the moment (Fescom or whatever) still depreciating the turbine?

How about the nice Toshiba S1 (300MW fission/MHD ea. substation) power WAN Robert Cringely suggests then?

So then, it certainly helps to have a well-maintained copy of tcsh around along with bash and vim; you kind of learn a bit of those, then you either have ideas for some cool ways for things to be and work to make them happen, or you run out of interest and maybe eke out a living repairing XBox remotes and renewing catalysts, I dunno.
        The thing is, if you are going to plot out the things you think you can learn and do, go ahead and map them together so that even if you end up rerouted, your stuff gets done and interests served. If instead you plot things out that you develop a hairy kolgomorov plot of what you may have been interested in, you are becoming some kind of tortured historian rather than an Electrical or Mechanical Engineer or Computista or Web Linguist.
          Mathematica running in the background, use of User Mode Linux, a certain caprice with the pinout of your PS2, genuine distaste for having the same book loaf around more than a week, and a rabid pursuit of the journals and apocrypha particular to your interests might help.

          You may need to leave periodic reminders to use a tennis racket (juggle a ball while running, etc.) and some hippie kryptonite.
          Once you know how it works, you can always repurpose things attached to your body like EKGs, BVO2Ms, etc.