tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68152032024-03-07T17:07:53.158+09:00Blues Tea-ChaMetacognitive Defibrillator & Nutwerx Squirrelizer; Surrealist Review of the World Nest (v2.3); Unofficial recycler of the disposable society; anti-judeo-christo-islamo-fascist-zombie-brigade resistance cell; Twenty Three Thousand Armed Buddhas; Nanobeachhead of Optimysticism; & future home of the manned mission to dwarf planet Eris. Nothing to see here, people; move along. Do not attempt to adjust your monitor. We control the html; we control the css. Submitted for your perusal. WTFWIT?Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.comBlogger657125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-3309127749699291422020-12-20T04:59:00.001+09:002020-12-20T05:02:41.785+09:00Google Policy musings<p>Revive the blog? <br />Keep the blog active? <br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span class="w4txWc oJeWuf" id="c0" role="region">European
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They just sort of massed in the hills and mountains overlooking the city (the dream place looked a little like Kyoto) and then filed in. The young soldiers were polite and seemed a little sheepish, so you almost felt a little sorry for them. Since the occupation was non-violent, there was no violent resistance, either, but there were some arguments along the lines of "Hey! Whaddaya think you're doing? This is stupid!" Young women were deployed too as soldier/spokespersons for the occupiers. For some reason they had decided to use English rather than Korean or Japanese as the occupation language. I became busy talking with the Korean spokeswomen over how the meaning of various edicts changed when there was no article as opposed to the definite or indefinite article.Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-35057149024511117162012-05-01T23:08:00.000+09:002012-05-03T12:13:41.436+09:00May Day in the LifeI played a tape today, oh boy<br />a VHS from MCMXCIII<br />and tho the sound was rather bad<br />we had to listen as<br />Sachiko, Ricardo and Maria took a business class<br />I'd love to turn it offBlues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-3174204728039356532012-05-01T01:26:00.000+09:002012-05-01T01:26:28.834+09:00Human Radiometer Birdhairjp<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Birdhairjp" target="_blank">Birdhairjp</a> visits the three cities of Koriyama, Nihonmatsu, and Fukushima to conduct radiation measurements at elementary schools and public parks 55 to 60 km from Fukushima Dai-Ichi as the cherry blossom front moves through. Past measurements have been made in many places, including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYtmkdtmwo8&feature=plcp" target="_blank">Namie (65μSv/h)</a>, Kashiwa (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di-_AaEBx2M&feature=plcp" target="_blank">9μSv/h</a>) and Tokyo (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk2m0KdekZM&feature=plcp" target="_blank">2.35μSv/h at Minami-Katsushika H.S.</a>). <br />
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The results at ground level are horrible. Although these may be hot spots, they are in public areas. The results at chest height (1.4, 0.81, 0.56μSv/h) are not terribly good either.Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-24239095462550394252012-04-29T20:33:00.000+09:002012-04-29T20:33:08.923+09:00Breaking down the environmental radioactivity monitoring data from MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and whatnot)As reported in the Asahi: <br />
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The science ministry has begun posting real-time radiation
levels on its website at 2,700 locations across Fukushima
Prefecture, including schools and parks.<br />
To access radiation levels measured at 10-minute intervals, go
to <a href="http://radiomap.mext.go.jp/ja/">http://radiomap.mext.go.jp/ja/</a>.</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201202220028">http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201202220028</a><br />
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A picture of the equipment: <br />
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Checking out today's data at<br />
<a href="http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/map/ja/area.html">http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/map/ja/area.html</a><br />
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Let's do some math...<br />
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Consider the maximum acceptable radiation dose for the
public from any man-made facility: 1 mSv/year. <br />
1 mSv/year is 1000 μSv/year. <br />
1000 μSv/year is 0.114 μSv/h. <br />
(Based on 8766 hours in a year (24×365.25) and 1000
microsieverts(μSv) in a millisievert (mSv). <br />
Therefore any place with over 0.114 μSv/h is questionable. <br />
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Japan set a limit 20 times higher, 20mSv/year, for Fukushima
residents. <br />
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Residents exposed at that level would reach the 350 mSv/lifetime
limit which was used to determine evacuation areas after the
Chernobyl disaster within 18 years. <br />
Using the Chernobyl lifetime standard, calculating for a 10-year old
child with an additional 70 years life expectancy, 350mSv/70years =
5mSv/year. <br />
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Recapping, the 1 mSv/year international standard is exceeded by the
Chernobyl evacuation standard, which (if judged to be tolerable)
could conceivably justify 5 mSv/year for kids (twice that for
35-year-olds, etc.), and that was exceeded by the 20 mSv/year
Japanese Fukushima-only standard, which I believe was set at that
level for political reasons only, to set a standard that would avoid
the need to evacuate several large cities and partially sever
northern Japan from the south and middle. <br />
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Some selected ranges of readings for locations today, Sunday, April
29, 2012: <br />
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Fukushima-ken locations: <br />
MinamiSoma 0.080 - 5.036 μSv/h = 0.701 - 44.14 mSv/year<br />
Fukushima City 0.092 - 1.764 μSv/h = 0.806 - 15.46 mSv/year<br />
NihonMatsu 0.113 - 1.324 μSv/h = 0.990 - 11.60 mSv/year<br />
Koriyama 0.067 - 1.379 μSv/h = 0.587 - 12.08 mSv/year<br />
Sukagawa City 0.098 - 0.727 μSv/h = 0.859 - 6.372 mSv/year<br />
Soma City 0.093 - 1.125 μSv/h = 0.815 - 9.862 mSv/year<br />
Iwaki City 0.054 - 0.819 μSv/h = 0.473 - 7.179 mSv/year<br />
Aizu-Wakamatsu 0.054 - 0.290 μSv/h = 0.473 - 2.542 mSv/year<br />
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Outside Fukushima-ken: <br />
Tochigi-ken 0.036 - 0.593 μSv/h = 0.315 - 5.198 mSv/year<br />
Miyagi-ken 0.033 - 0.367 μSv/h = 0.289 - 3.217 mSv/year<br />
Ibaraki-ken 0.048 - 0.178 μSv/h = 0.420 - 1.560 mSv/year<br />
Chiba-ken 0.037 - 0.172 μSv/h = 0.324 - 1.507 mSv/year<br />
Gunma-ken 0.026 - 0.154 μSv/h = 0.228 - 1.349 mSv/year<br />
Saitama-ken 0.027 - 0.154 μSv/h = 0.236 - 1.349 mSv/year<br />
Tokyo-to 0.037 - 0.064 μSv/h = 0.324 - 0.561 mSv/year<br />
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If you use the lifetime-exposure evacuation standard for Chernobyl
applied to children, all children should be evacuated from all of
the cities measured in eastern Fukushima prefecture, with the
exception of Aizu-Wakamatsu, which is more central, but which still
exceeds the 1 mSv/year international standard for the nuclear power
industry. Some sites in Tochigi prefecture also exceed the Chernobyl
standard and should evacuate children.<br />
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All of these prefectures in the Kanto region have at least a few
MEXT radiation measurement stations (which are very limited in
number outside Fukushima, by the way, 5 stations in Tokyo, 7 in
Chiba, etc) which record levels above the 1 mSv/year international
standard. By that standard, Kanto is barely tolerable.<br />
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Numbers here in Chiba: <br />
html at <a href="http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/html/12/12000.html%20" target="_blank">http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/html/12/12000.html </a><br />
2012年04月29日 20時00分時点<br />
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<li>市原市 県環境研究センター 0.037μSv/h</li>
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<li>柏市 市立田中小学校 0.116μSv/h</li>
<li>印西市 市立船穂中学校 0.170μSv/h</li>
<li>香取市 香取市役所小見川区事務所 0.082μSv/h</li>
<li>市川市 市立大柏小学校 0.104μSv/h</li>
<li>館山市 県安房農業普及センター跡地 0.059μSv/h</li>
<li>茂原市 県大気汚染常時監視測定局 0.051μSv/h</li>
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In Chiba, Kashiwa (柏市) and Inzai (印西市) both exceed the 1 milliSievert/year limit for added radiation from nuclear power. <br />
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wii thot it wud olweiz get betr.Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-14069406690223676892012-04-28T01:47:00.000+09:002012-04-30T02:52:09.222+09:00Citizen Radiation Monitor<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Birdhairjp">http://www.youtube.com/user/Birdhairjp</a><br />
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Welcome back after over a month of silence. It looks like he is in Fukushima.<br />
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▶ April 16, 2012<br />
The Perils of Technological Hubris<br />
Nuclear Titanics<br />
by KARL GROSSMAN<br />
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On the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, The Japan Times
yesterday ran an editorial titled “The Titanic and the Nuclear Fiasco”
which stated: “Presenting technology as completely safe, trustworthy or
miraculous may seem to be a thing of the past, but the parallels between
the Titanic and Japan’s nuclear power industry could not be clearer.”</span><br />
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“Japan’s nuclear power plants were, like the Titanic, advertised as
marvels of modern science that were completely safe. Certain
technologies, whether they promise to float a luxury liner or provide
clean energy, can never be made entirely safe,” it said.</span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"> It
quoted from a piece by Joseph Conrad written after the Titanic sank in
which he noted the “chastening influence it should have on the
self-confidence of mankind.” The Japan Times urged: “That lesson should
be applied to all ‘unsinkable’ undertakings that might profit a few by
imperiling the majority of others.”</span></blockquote>
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<span class="text_exposed_show"> <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/ed20120415a1.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/ed20120415a1.html</a></span></blockquote>
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Read the whole article. Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-38763690442770766142012-04-16T21:41:00.000+09:002012-04-29T21:47:08.571+09:0011,000 fuel rods, 85×Chernobyl at Fukushima Dai-Ichi siteSometimes i worry. <br /> A potential 85 × Chernobyls worth of
radioactivity on-site in 11,000 spent fuel rods, parts of the site
already too radioactive for humans or robots to approach, spent fuel
pools suspended 30 meters in the air requiring <span class="text_exposed_show">constant
cooling, structurally unsound. Only one spent fuel pool or reactor
needs to go kablooey to make the site uninhabitable, at which point we
can only retreat and try to deal with it from afar, perhaps with
fly-overs like in Chernobyl. Even their best-case scenarios call for
developing technology to try to clean up the site in 40 years or so,
more likely not in centuries. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html</a> ⇒ <br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show">Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was
invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the
House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, on the Fukushima nuclear power
plants accident. Before the Committee, Ambassador Murata strongly stated
that if the crippled building of reactor unit 4—with 1,535 fuel rods in
the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground—collapses,
not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also
affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located
some 50 meters from reactor 4. In both cases the radioactive rods are
not protected by a containment vessel; dangerously, they are open to the
air. This would certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never
before experienced. He stressed that the responsibility of Japan to the
rest of the world is immeasurable. Such a catastrophe would affect us
all for centuries. Ambassador Murata informed us that the total numbers
of the spent fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi site excluding the rods
in the pressure vessel is 11,421 (396+615+566+1,535+994+940+6375).<br /> <br />
I asked top spent-fuel pools expert Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior
Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for
National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy,
for an explanation of the potential impact of the 11,421 rods.<br /> <br /> I received an astounding response from Mr. Alvarez [updated 4/5/12]:<br /> "In recent times, more information about the spent fuel situation at
the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site has become known. It is my understanding
that of the 1,532 spent fuel assemblies in reactor No. 304 assemblies
are fresh and unirradiated. This then leaves 1,231 irradiated spent fuel
rods in pool No. 4, which contain roughly 37 million curies (~1.4E+18
Becquerel) of long-lived radioactivity. The No. 4 pool is about 100
feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open
elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to
drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving
nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident.<br />
The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as
it was at the other three reactors. Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply
lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order
to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it
must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded
structures into dry casks.. As this has never been done before, the
removal of the spent fuel from the pools at the damaged
Fukushima-Dai-Ichi reactors will require a major and time-consuming
re-construction effort and will be charting in unknown waters. Despite
the enormous destruction cased at the Da–Ichi site, dry casks holding a
smaller amount of spent fuel appear to be unscathed."<br /> <br /> Based
on U.S. Energy Department data, assuming a total of 11,138 spent fuel
assemblies are being stored at the Dai-Ichi site, nearly all, which is
in pools. They contain roughly 336 million curies (~1.2 E+19 Bq) of
long-lived radioactivity. About 134 million curies is Cesium-137 —
roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident
as estimated by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection
(NCRP). The total spent reactor fuel inventory at the Fukushima-Daichi
site contains nearly half of the total amount of Cs-137 estimated by
the NCRP to have been released by all atmospheric nuclear weapons
testing, Chernobyl, and world-wide reprocessing plants (~270 million
curies or ~9.9 E+18 Becquerel).<br /> <br /> It is important for the
public to understand that reactors that have been operating for decades,
such as those at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site have generated some of the
largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet. "<br /> <br /> Many
of our readers might find it difficult to appreciate the actual meaning
of the figure, yet we can grasp what 85 times more Cesium-137 than the
Chernobyl would mean. It would destroy the world environment and our
civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the
pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human
survival.</span></blockquote>Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-86478513478550548042012-04-14T21:56:00.000+09:002012-06-01T00:17:55.430+09:00Career Opportunities<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/38995781">Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6415562">Fairewinds Energy Education</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
I have no real complaints but I think the sample sites he chose were exactly where we expect fallout to concentrate (cracks in the sidewalk, roofs, etc).Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-5488433559619626512012-04-10T22:15:00.000+09:002012-04-29T22:19:54.591+09:00I'm not lichen it so rad<a href="http://kiikochan.blog136.fc2.com/blog-entry-1556.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://kiikochan.blog136.fc2.com/blog-entry-1556.html</a> <br />
A blogger's summary of a TV report (Feb 24, 2012): Black lichens of
1,000,000 becqerel/kg. They have these at Chernobyl, too. It seems to
get energy from radiation.<br />
If you google the term 黒い物質 (black substance) it tends to come up. Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-71708852060130207912012-04-05T22:22:00.000+09:002012-04-29T22:23:16.978+09:00Down at San Onofre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I respect his decision to live free, but i think his call to
decontaminate such a large area is hopeless and wasted effort. Time will
deal with it. People should leave. Farmers should be compensa<span class="text_exposed_show">ted
with new farms elsewhere, as the population is falling and the
countryside is being abandoned. Then they can farm without compromised
produce or stigma. (As it is now, the government buys contaminated rice
grown anywhere outside the prohibited zone and charges TEPCO, so all
consumers pay the cost of continued attempts to farm in Fukushima
prefecture.) Contaminated soil should be covered with less contaminated
soil brought in from elsewhere. Cover 120μSv/hr soil with 37μSv/hr soil
brought in from less contaminated areas, and so on. </span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><a href="https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/45405527" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span>https://ssl.panoramio.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>photo/45405527</a> I cycled near it once on this Pacific Tokai Cycling Road (but that's not my picture).</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/0310/Japan-s-Hamaoka-nuclear-plant-sees-tsunami-defense-in-very-big-wall">http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/0310/Japan-s-Hamaoka-nuclear-plant-sees-tsunami-defense-in-very-big-wall</a> This article from a few weeks ago has been superceded by new estimates of a magnitude 9 quake and a 30-meter wave. Hopefully it will never reopen.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Japan's controversial Hamaoka nuclear plant, shut down after Fukushima, wants to reopen once a 54-ft.-high, mile-long wall is finished. But the plant also sits on a seismic fault line, raising more than a few doubts.</i></span></blockquote>
WSJ, 2011 <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/05/06/hamaoka-japans-most-infamous-nuclear-plant/">http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/05/06/hamaoka-japans-most-infamous-nuclear-plant/</a><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><span class="text_exposed_show">Since
a tsunami wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant a year ago,
leading to meltdown in three of its reactors, all eyes in Japan have
been on the Hamaoka plant, 300 miles down the coast and similarly
located right on the seashore. It has been branded the most dangerous
nuclear power station in the world by some seismologists. <br /> <br /> Its
operator, Chubu Electric, is determined to reopen the plant as soon as
its workers have finished building a six-ft.-thick anti-tsunami wall
that will stand 54 feet above sea level and stretch a mile; the manmade
hills now being constructed are a first step in the yearlong project. <br /> <br /> But many local residents are not so sure.<br /> <br />
“I was always a little worried before last March,” says Fumio
Takahashi, a real estate agent who lives in the town of Omaezaki, hard
by the Hamaoka plant. “Now I realize that it is dangerous to have a
nuclear plant near your home. I absolutely do not want it to reopen.”<br /> <br />
Hamaoka is particularly dangerous, explains Yoshika Shiratori, because
it is built on a seismic fault line where Japanese government experts
have estimated that there is an 87 percent chance of a magnitude 8
earthquake within the next 30 years.</span></span></span></i></blockquote>Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-53708770743856439502012-04-02T22:27:00.000+09:002012-04-29T22:32:00.552+09:00Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station Exhibition Center videoHamaoka Nuclear Power Station Exhibition Center has a scale model of an actual nuclear reactor, the walls, fuel rods, assemblies, containments, etc so you can get a feel for it.
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Video #1<br />
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2011-05-02-13:40 status: monitoring radioactive iodine.<br />
Units 4 and 5 (boiling water reactors) were still in operation on that day!<br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">#3 gets opinionated at 8:30 and includes the PM's order to close the plant on May 6.</span>Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-67112680993003403892012-03-31T23:02:00.000+09:002012-04-29T23:05:29.629+09:00Wind maep<a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fd20120401bj.html"></a><a href="http://hint.fm/wind/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://hint.fm/wind/</a>Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-53049624279002275542012-03-27T23:08:00.000+09:002012-04-29T23:12:52.933+09:00Lightning and Neutrons<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/nuclear-lightening.ars">http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/nuclear-lightening.ars</a><br />
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Scientists confirm that lightning strikes generate low energy neutrons, but eliminate both of the explanations we had for how this might work.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>A haiku poem by Hiryoshi Tagawa (1914-1999) goes: </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>"The green man at the emergency exit/ Always fleeing." </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The familiar pictogram of a running figure was created in Japan and became an international symbol for emergency exits. </i></span></blockquote>
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<b>Buddhist federation speaks out against nuclear power</b><br /><a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/people/AJ201203210053">http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/people/AJ201203210053</a><br />The Japan Buddhist Federation has called for a society that does not depend on nuclear power not to repeat the mistake Buddhist organizations made…</blockquote>Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-78710125123082288722012-03-21T23:38:00.000+09:002012-04-30T00:21:50.618+09:00Port of Morrow, Ashes to Ashes<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/03/17/148596469/on-port-of-morrow-the-shins-sail-back-to-the-1970s">http://www.npr.org/2012/03/17/148596469/on-port-of-morrow-the-shins-sail-back-to-the-1970s</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Singer, songwriter and driving creative force James Mercer discusses changing lineups and embracing vintage sounds on a long-awaited new album.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">I got on my physical bicycle
tonight and physically rode down to the physical Tower Records in my
physical neighborhood and physically bought (with physical money) the
physical CD (also Pink Martini & Saori Yuki '1969' which is also an
Oregon band BTW), brought the music back home and ripped it the old
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<i>James Mercer of The Shins perform LIVE acoustic, in the KEXP studios! </i></blockquote>
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<i>More videos are online now at the KEXP Blog: <a href="http://blog.kexp.org/2012/02/29/live-video-james-mercer-of-the-shins/" target="_blank">http://blog.kexp.org/2012/02/29/live-video-james-mercer-of-the-shins/</a></i></blockquote>Blues Tea-Chahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08059204853265535952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6815203.post-76033378344231478932012-03-13T23:46:00.000+09:002012-04-29T23:50:04.507+09:00One Spent Fuel Pool Has More Radioactive Cesium-137 Than Every Nuclear Bomb Ever Exploded In The Atmosphere<b>Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen: Fukushima Meltdown Could Result in 1 Million Cases of Cancer</b><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>The Obama administration is backing an expansion of nuclear power plants, but… <br /><br /> "I’m on record as saying that we should close the 23 reactors with the Mark I design. … These containment vents prove to fail three times out of three. …<br /><br />In addition, the fuel is stored on the roof, essentially, in unshielded, unprotected areas. And there’s more nuclear cesium-137 in the fuel pool at the plant in Pilgrim, Massachusetts, than was ever released by every nuclear bomb ever exploded in the atmosphere. So we have an enormous inventory of nuclear material way up on the roofs of these buildings, and I think it’s time to close these Mark 1s down, because of those two design features."</i></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/12/nuclear_engineer_arnie_gundersen_fukushima_meltdown">https://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/12/nuclear_engineer_arnie_gundersen_fukushima_meltdown</a></span><br />
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