After the flame is extinguished, the flags lowered and the last medals awarded the Olympic roadshow will move on from London to focus on Rio de Janeiro. But the organisers of London 2012 are hoping that the games will leave more than memories – the legacy of the spectacle has been at the heart of the project since the bid’s inception. From 2013 the Olympic Park […]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
This week the Japanese nuclear authorities announced that the partial meltdowns at four of Fukushima I’s reactors would be raised to a ‘category 5’ incident. I had never come across this scale before and, whilst it clearly relates to the seriousness of the incident, I didn’t know what it was out of, or what the criteria were. The scale is the International Nuclear and Radiological Event […]