2. criticality - a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear reaction is self-sustaining
critical point, crossroads, juncture - a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"
flash point, flashpoint - point at which something is ready to blow up

Robert Thurman in an interview with Transendent Nation

"The world saves it self all the time, so people really need to save themselves....The main thing is to be happy, you know, and forget about saving the world. why save the world? let them blow it up, who gives a damn. People will be reborn somewhere else and if they have to blow it up one more time, they have blown it up millions of times, and if they have to blow it up another time then they will all go through the whole freak out all together one more time....as they create a new world and then live on...the main thing is everybody should become joyful." Robert Thurman in an interview with Transendent Nation

Returing home after nuclear accident in Fukushima

Report from The Guardian UK on residents of Fukushima returning home to visit.

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"designs for fragile personalities in anxious times"

The nuclear is like revolution. -jean baudrillard

"The nuclear is like revolution. nothing is gained from hoping for the one or fearing the other, since both have already happened. Everything is already liberated, changed, subverted. What more do you want? There's no use hoping: the things are there, born or stillborn, already in the past- it's exasperating, but what can you do about it? No future. No cause for panic either: everything's already nuclearized, enucleated, vaporized. The explosion has already happened, the bomb is only a metaphor. What more do you want: everything is already wiped off the map. It's no good dreaming: the confrontation has already happened, quietly, everywhere. Yet it isn't enough for things to have happened: we also want to see them as a spectacle. The people wanted the spectacle of the revolution. Things themselves also want to experience the rupture of a spectacular metaphor. This is the revenge of the objectivity in which we have confined them.

What will become of the nuclear? Will we insist on having the grand spectacle of the atomic confrontation for the beauty of it? If that happens, it will not be for reasons currently advanced - the fatal dynamic of the use-value of weapons or the species becoming resigned to its own destruction - but from the irresistibility of the spectacle of destruction and the necessity, for us, of deriving some enjoyment from it."

From Cool Memories by Jean Baudrillard translated by Chris Turner verso publishing 1987 NY p 55-56

Small Nuclear Plant Exlosion in France

CBS reports on the small explosion at the Marcoule Nuclear Plant recently in France, a country heavily dependent on nuclear power. No leaks have been found almost a week later, which is great!