http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7917346
(Mar 16)
Transparency International's report listed six "monuments of corruption," including the Yacyreta hydropower project on the border of Argentina and Paraguay, environmentally suspect dams in Malaysia and Uganda and a nuclear power plant in the Philippines built on an active fault line, prone to earthquakes.
Oi... a nuclear plant sitting on a fault line??
they should've included pounds sterling from (for?) the skies
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=621293
The power plant in my county is a coal plant, but for a time it was nuclear -- until it was discovered it was close to a fault line as well. It still has spent nuke rods, but they're tightly stored and sealed.
Isn't Australia supposed to be fairly stable? It isn't near the edge of any tectonic plate.
kekekekekeke
thats what they thought, aye?
but actually they built a nuclear reactor, in sydney, right on top of a just recently discovered fault line (not known to have been active in the last 10k years, but still, sydney is the biggest city in australia... that's some bet!). i was thoroughly amused.
>>4: If you were talking to me, then no. I live in northern California at present (the real NorCal, not the SF Bay Area).
>> 7
indeed i was. i misread "county" for "country".
i should have known that anyone who can talk at length about the patriot act has to be american, because it bores the hell out of everyone else.