I didn’t really want to write about the incident at the Boston Marathon today.

I was all set up to write a perky piece about my weekend. I had a phenomenal weekend! I got to translate on stage for three of the stars of the original Ultraman TV series; Susumu Kurobe, who played Hayata, the man who transforms into Ultraman, Hiroko Sakurai, who played Agent Fuji, the cute girl on the team of monster fighters in the show and Satoshi “Bin” Furuya, who was inside the Ultraman costume. The event took place at Monsterpalooza held this weekend in Burbank.

I’ve known Hiroko Sakurai for several years now. She was the only Ultraman cast member who went on to become an employee of Tsuburaya Productions, where I worked in Tokyo forNew French energy policy to limit nuclear

18 June 2014

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France's nuclear generating capacity will be capped at its current level under a long-awaited draft energy policy announced today by energy minister Ségolène Royal.

Royal presents the draft energy policy in Paris (Image: French energy ministry)

French president Francois Hollande's 2012 election pledge was to limit nuclear's share of French generation at 50% by 2025, and the closure of France's oldest nuclear power plant, Fessenheim, by the end of 2016. Now, following a national energy debate, his government has announced that the country's nuclear generating capacity will indeed be capped at the current level of 63.2 GWe. It will also be limited to 50% of France's total output by 2025. Nuclear currently accounts for almost 75% of the country's electricity production, making