I just don't get all the fear of nuclear power and paranoia about the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant. My basic conclusion is: if a power plant can endure such a powerful natural disaster and not immediately collapse and explode, then I consider it a pretty safe technology. We need more nuclear power, not less.
I came across this slashdot comment that sums it up rather well using known facts in comparison to the Deep Water Horizon explosion:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2037094&cid=35487630
Deepwater Horizon - caused by cost cutting and ignoring safeguards.
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Perhaps I am indeed, the least interesting man in the world.

shamelessly lifted from http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/sp_getNothing.aspx:
"I was working on cleaning up some old code from a system I inherited," writes Anthony Mattas, "the system is an old ASP.NET application that has been around for a while, but won’t be replaced because it generates the staff meeting template for our CEOs weekly leadership meeting."
I heard about 6th Street Radio on the INTERBLAGS!