With all the fuss surrounding whether the l'Aquila earthquake should have been predicted, the point is often missed that it didn't need to be. As the recent Christchurch earthquake has shown, a city can survive relatively unscathed without an accurate prediction. All it takes is proper preparation.
Nuclear waste is one of the biggest downsides to nuclear power, and can remain dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. Geological disposal is often stated as the most preferable way of dealing with it, but what does it entail? What are the problems that need to be overcome, and how are governments going about overcoming them? Fortunately, most governments are trying to be transparent about the process, with thousands of reports available on the web.
For some coursework earlier this year, I looked at the subject from a geological point of view.
Several Italian scientists may be charged later this year with manslaughter over the deaths of 308 people who died in and around l'Aquila in 2009. Is this reasonable?I wanted to write about something new in this post, but as Google News failed to inform me of any interesting geology-related happenings (unless you include this
BBC article which is just one big rock pun) I will have to make do with something almost-current I have wanted to write about for a while.