succesfull beer night, abominal movies, and an impending nuclear disaster

The beer night I spoke of a few days ago was great. Together with some friends, I drank 16 different beers, together we ranked them from best to worst. As the best beer we chose the Hoegaarden Verboden vrucht, as worst one: "probably the best beer in the world":  Carlsberg.

For the hell of it I watched the what are probably the two worst movies ever made: Hole in one, a golf player loses a bet with two plastic surgeons and wakes up with tits... And Sharktopus. Yes, a story about  a Navy experiment gone wrong resulting in a killer shark octopus hybrid roaming the water. (Piranha anyone) The movies in themselves are extremely bad. But I watched it with some friends and we had a good laugh.

Then: Fukushima. 7 days after the earthquake this situation is still not resolved, and according to me, it's still getting worse. I don't really understand how it is possible thhat so many things can keep on going wrong. An 8.9 Earthquake is very extreme, and it can be uderstood that things can go wrong when such a thing happens. But 7 days later, problems should at least be stable rather then still increasing. According to me this points to a deeper problem with nuclear safety in Japan, rather then a freak accident.

Sadly, "green" movements all around the world seem to be using this event as a means to press for the end of nuclear power which is simply not an option. We need nuclear energy to cover our energy needs, and alternative energy sources (like wind, sun,...) are great supplements. But just that: supplements. Untill nuclear fusion is ready to work with commercially. We will not be able to stop using fision plants. But that should mean two things... We should start working on replacing old nuclear power plants with new nuclear power plants (who will be way more modern, and are more efficient than the current ones we have). And we should put large quantities of money into research into nuclear fusion to speed up this process significantly.