NUCLEAR WASTE While Nuclear Waste Piles Up in U.S., Billions in Fund to Handle It Sit Unused While the nuclear crisis in Japan has focused attention on the risks of spent fuel piling up at the U.S.'s reactors, one curious fact has gone largely unnoted: There is $24 billion sitting in a "nuclear waste fund" that can't actually be used to pay for a safer way to store the waste at reactors.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP Hillary Clinton's Senior Tech Advisor Talks "Radical" Global Citizenship Alec Ross on subversive technologies, Libya, Wikileaks, and the future of digital diplomacy."We're willing to make mistakes of commission," he tells Fast Company, "rather than omission."
THERE'S AN APP FOR THAT Fire Department's iPhone App Can Help Save Lives Application alerts those trained in CPR of nearby emergencies in San Ramon Valley, Calif.
FEDS ON FACEBOOK Facebook-using Federal Managers "Surge," Survey Finds More than half the government's management-level employees use Facebook, and of them, most use it for work, a media marketing survey has found.