Leaked Report Says Chernobyl Replacements a Hazard: Soviet-designed nuclear power reactors
at Khmelnytsky and Rivne, which are already 80 percent
complete and sit on seismic fault zones, are “highly hazardous” according to a Vienna University report for the Austrian government. Greenpeace leaked the report to the media in the week preceding the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s pending decision about funding the Ukraine’s completion of the new facilities. The Ukraine says it will not take the Chernobyl plant offline unless it gets this funding for replacement energy generating needs; Greenpeace maintains Chernobyl should be replaced by conventional, nonnuclear power generation sources.

Possible Vaccine To Fight Ebola succesfully protects laboratory monkeys, “raising doctors’ hopes of developing a means of inoculating people against the
terrifying disease.”

Search for Another Earth Quietly Underway. “After a five-year search that has turned up more than 40 giant, inhospitable planets around
other stars, the hunt is quietly underway to discover another place like home. And while no
scientist can say for sure that any such planet exists, optimism is high that another Earth will
be found within the decade, possibly much sooner.”

FBI Probed Groucho for Marxist Ties. For those of you old enough to remember, shades of the Firesign Theater.