Know : List of Countries using Nuclear Energy

Nuclear power stations operate in 31 countries. Of the thirty countries in which nuclear power plants operate, only France, Belgium, Hungary and Slovakia use them as the primary source of electricity, although many other countries have a significant nuclear power generation capacity. According to the World Nuclear Association, a nuclear power advocacy group, over 45 countries are giving “serious consideration” to introducing a nuclear power capability, with Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey,Vietnam, Belarus, and Jordan at the forefront. China, South Korea and India are pursuing ambitious expansions of their nuclear power capacities

As of June 2011, Germany and Switzerland are phasing-out nuclear power which will be replaced mostly by fossil fuels, and a smaller part renewable energy.

Rank	Country	Capacity (MW) (2014)	Nuclear share of electricity production, 2013
1	United States	99,081	19.4%
2	France	63,130	73.3%
3	Japan	42,388	1.7%
4	Russia	23,643	17.5%
5	South Korea	20,721	27.6%
6	China	17,978	2.1%
7	Canada	13,538	16.0%
8	Ukraine	13,107	43.6%
9	Germany	12,068	15.4%
10	Sweden	9,474	42.7%
11	United Kingdom	9,243	18.3%
12	Spain	7,121	19.7%
13	Belgium	5,927	52.1%
14	India	5,308	3.5%
15	Taiwan	5,032	19.1%
16	Czech Republic	3,884	35.9%
17	Switzerland	3,308	36.4%
18	Finland	2,752	33.3%
19	Bulgaria	1,906	30.7%
20	Hungary	1,889	50.7%
21	Brazil	1,884	2.8%
22	South Africa	1,860	5.7%
23	Slovakia	1,815	51.7%
24	Argentina	1,627	4.4%
25	Mexico	1,570	4.6%
26	Romania	1,300	19.8%
27	Iran	915	1.5%
28	Pakistan	690	4.4%
29	Slovenia	688	33.6%
30	Netherlands	482	2.8%
31	Armenia	375	29.2%
	World	374,704

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Courtesy & Source: “Nuclear power station” by Ichabod Paleogene, Krzysztof Kori. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

More than 100 kids were killed in Pakistan by Terrorists :(

At least 126 people have been killed and 122 injured in an attack by Taliban militants on a Pakistani high school.

More than 100 of the dead were school children, director of information for the chief minister’s secretariat Bahramand Khan said, adding that the death toll could rise.

Hundreds of students and teachers were taken hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years.

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Know : Countries with Capitals which is not their Largest City

Country	Capital	Largest city
Australia	Canberra	Sydney
Belize	Belmopan	Belize City
Benin	Porto-Novo	Cotonou
Bolivia	Sucre	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Brazil	Brasília	São Paulo
Cameroon	Yaoundé	Douala
Canada	Ottawa	Toronto
People’s Republic of China	Beijing	Shanghai
Republic of China(Taiwan)	Taipei	New Taipei
Côte d’Ivoire	Yamoussoukro	Abidjan
Ecuador	Quito	Guayaquil
India	New Delhi	Mumbai
Kazakhstan	Astana	Almaty
Liechtenstein	Vaduz	Schaan
Malta	Valletta	Birkirkara
Federated States of Micronesia	Palikir	Weno
Monaco	Monaco (Monaco-Ville)	Monte Carlo
Morocco	Rabat	Casablanca
Myanmar	Naypyidaw	Yangon
New Zealand	Wellington	Auckland
Nigeria	Abuja	Lagos
Pakistan	Islamabad	Karachi
Palau	Ngerulmud	Koror
Philippines	Manila	Quezon City
San Marino	San Marino	Serravalle
South Africa	Pretoria	Johannesburg
Sudan	Khartoum	Omdurman
Sri Lanka	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte	Colombo
Switzerland	Bern	Zürich
Syria	Damascus	Aleppo
Tanzania	Dodoma	Dar es Salaam
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	Chaguanas
Turkey	Ankara	Istanbul
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Dubai
United States	Washington, D.C.	New York City
Vietnam	Hanoi	Ho Chi Minh City

Alert! : Time Lapse of All Nuclear Explosions on Earth from 1945 – 1998

It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.”

Powerful Quote #175 : Unlearning

Education should unite not separate the nations. We learn history to know how stupidly we fought one another and not to repeat the same mistakes again.

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– Din

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