Unsure about nuclear power? Here's the five questions you must answer | Damian Carrington | Environment. Containing the elemental forces that rage inside a nuclear reactor is one of the great achievements of science, but losing control, as happened 25 years ago on Tuesday at Chernobyl, is one of its greatest failures. So what to think of nuclear power? People often ask me if I support or oppose the building of new nuclear power stations, presuming I think that because of my job, I'll know the answer.
If only it was that easy. Until the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant, I would say I was 51% in favour, on the basis that we need all the low-carbon electricity we can get to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and that I tend to trust scientists having been one. But 51% in favour is a pretty unsatisfactory position - it's 1% off I don't know. As the debate has raged, not least between my colleagues George Monbiot and John Vidal, it struck me very clearly that this is not an issue that can be resolved with cold facts alone, for the simple reason that many of the facts are not known.
Ad Dollars Still Not Following Online and Mobile Usage. Despite the projection that online advertising will increase its share of US major media ad spending by more than 10 percentage points between 2009 and 2015, spending on digital, including internet and mobile, has not yet risen to match consumption patterns, eMarketer estimates. Among the major media of television, internet, radio, mobile, newspapers and magazines, US adults still spend the most time each day with TV. eMarketer estimates adults watched television for 42.9% of the time they spent each day with those media in 2010, and ad dollars align closely, at 42.7%. The internet, by contrast, took up 25.2% of adults’ daily media time in 2010, but received just 18.7% of US ad spending.
“Those of us focused on the internet channel have complained for years that it hasn’t been getting its fair share of media dollars based on time spent,” said eMarketer CEO Geoff Ramsey. “However, the precise extent of that imbalance has been shrouded in mystery and exaggeration. Mobile is also behind. Emploi, éducation, santé, logement: ce qu'on sait déjà du projet socialiste. Le projet du Parti socialiste pour 2012 présenté mardi en Bureau national, devrait se décliner en une vingtaine à une trentaine de propositions phares.
Toutes ces propositions, qui ne sont pas nouvelles, ont été énoncées lors des conventions et Forums du Parti socialiste en 2010. La touche finale doit être mise lundi par le Conseil politique des dirigeants du PS, mais Martine Aubry en a dévoilées certaines notamment samedi devant les jeunes socialistes. - créer 300.000 emplois d'avenir, nouvelle mouture des emplois-jeunes, "pour mettre le pied à l'étrier aux jeunes, rassurer les familles, rétablir la confiance et relancer l'économie", dans les domaines de l'innovation sociale et environnementale - limiter la précarité "en supprimant les exonérations de cotisations aux entreprises abusant des CDD et de l'interim" - encadrer les stages "pendant les études pour qu'ils soient rémunérés correctement et les proscrire après, pour qu'ils ne se substituent pas aux vrais contrats de travail"
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