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GAAN MIJN KLEINKINDEREN LAST HEBBEN VAN HET KERNAFVAL DAT WE VANDAAG PRODUCEREN ? 

Antwoord van kernvragen hier.

Jullie stellen in het kort:

1. Nucleair afval is maar 1% van alle jaarlijks giftig afval
2. het is goed opspoorbaar
3. wat niet ter zake doende opmerkingen over toekomstige technieken.

The Belgian nuclear forum is launching a very aggressive marketing campaign which supposedly provides answers about nuclear energy to the public.

Reading through the questions and answers seems to confirm my original feeling that this is nothing more than a marketing campaign designed to ease the fears surrounding nuclear enegery instead of actually providing honest answers.  

So, as someone with 4 years of experience in the nuclear energy, I will be asking them some questions and I'll be curious to hear the answers.

Dit artikel is op 4 augustus 2011 verschenen op De Wereld Morgen

De beginjaren van de 21ste eeuw brachten veel nieuwigheden met zich mee. In de digitale wereld werd luid geroepen dat Web 2.0 een realiteit was.

Several nuclear reactors in Japan are on the brink of a meltdown scenario following the recent earthquakes.  After being told for a decade that this scenario was impossible in a western-type reactor (even this weekend, a spokesperson from the WNA made such a bold claim), the unthinkable is happening.  If a meltdown actually happens, a large area around the accident site will be uninhabitable for thousands of years and the local foodchain might be eradicated.

Today, the local radio Geel FM aired an interview with me that we recorded on thursday about LETS Geel.  Very Cool.
 

I blogged about putting my sons in a catholic school earlier today (http://nocturn.vsbnet.be/content/defeated).

They funny thing is that I received a response:

"So, to solve your issue with how racism was handled at your previous school, you go to a fairly monolithic catholic school. Certainly theologically monolithic, and I'm guessing largely racially monolithic as well. That move sounds racist to me... eliminate all other diversities around your child."

Yesterday, I made a very mixed decision of enrolling my two sons in a katholic school.  I hope this will be a good school for them and I really think it will be.

But today, I can't shake this feeling of defeat.  It's his 4th school and he's only 5, we always kept the catholic schools from the list of options because I strongly feel that religion in schools violates our freedom of religion.  But too many things went wrong in these public schools and there were several racist incidents which weren't dealt with in any meaningful way.

Yesterday, I made a very mixed decision of enrolling my two sons in a katholic school.  I hope this will be a good school for them and I really think it will be.
But today, I can't shake this feeling of defeat.  It's his 4th school and he's only 5, we always kept the catholic schools from the list of options because I strongly feel that religion in schools violates our freedom of religion.  But too many things went wrong in these public schools and there were several racist incidents which weren't dealt with in any meaningful way.

This post is not related to technology in any form, but I feel so stong about this issue that I'm sending this out into the world anyway.

In recent days, the Flemish public schooling system voted for a ban on headscarves, much to the anger of the Muslim community.

The elections are now part of history and I can't say I'm happy with the results.  Those of you that read this blog know that I'm firmly on the left side of the political spectrum, so this right turn is not something I like.

It's no surprise though, some guys in the Walloon camp played right into the hand of parties like the N-VA (like Reyneders saying that there too many Flemish people in the Brussels government...) and SPa screwed up so badly in the last decade that it's almost amazing that any leftist person would still vote for them.