Down at San Onofre

Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station Exhibition Center video

Hamaoka 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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgMaAFdkm5Q

Video #1
saves you going all the way to Shizuoka
2011-05-02-13:40 status: monitoring radioactive iodine.
Units 4 and 5 (boiling water reactors) were still in operation on that day!

 Video #2. My compliments to the videographer! Thanks, dude! Good job!

‎#3 gets opinionated at 8:30 and includes the PM's order to close the plant on May 6.

Haiku Break

A haiku poem by Hiryoshi Tagawa (1914-1999) goes: 

"The green man at the emergency exit/ Always fleeing." 

The familiar pictogram of a running figure was created in Japan and became an international symbol for emergency exits. 

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/vox/AJ201203240034

Port of Morrow, Ashes to Ashes

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/17/148596469/on-port-of-morrow-the-shins-sail-back-to-the-1970s 

Singer, songwriter and driving creative force James Mercer discusses changing lineups and embracing vintage sounds on a long-awaited new album.

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 fashioned way like it was 1999.

James Mercer of The Shins perform LIVE acoustic, in the KEXP studios!

More videos are online now at the KEXP Blog: http://blog.kexp.org/2012/02/29/live-video-james-mercer-of-the-shins/

President 1962

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AesVsRvOEo
1962.
JFK: Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Cowboy Junkies session break

As introduced and interviewed by David Byrne. 1998?



I haven't watched it all because it's 2AM and I think I'l watch it tomorrow.



Only 6 views? Hope it doesn't get deleted because i haven't seen it before.

Chatbot Dr C

http://marsdata1.jpl.nasa.gov/DrC/
Chat-bot for Mars Rovers: Dr. C. is based on a real Mars scientist, Dr. Phil Christensen.
Dr. C.
He's awfully stupid, even for a chatbot

The Book of Faces

Profile pics on social media sites pose privacy risk, researcher warns
Imagine walking down a street and having a total stranger being able to instantly pull up your name, date of birth, Social Security number, your last blog item and other data on their smart phone.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218903/Profile_pics_on_social_media_sites_pose_privacy_risk_researcher_warns
It's getting easier for strangers to identify people and infer detailed information about them from their publicly available pictures on sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, a researcher said at Black Hat.

The NeXT ELViS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_R7fgo0FLc
robotized organs of speech
人間と同様の音声生成器官を持つ発話ロボット #DigInfo
DigInfo TV - http://jp.diginfo.tv/ 2011/7/13 香川大学 発話ロボット

船橋 Radiation

This testing by Funabashi City shows hot spots of around 0.44 and 0.45 microsieverts/hr (μSv/h). These are just at daycares and so on. Two are in sandboxes, one in a field (or garden?).
http://www.city.funabashi.chiba.jp/information/p015854_d/fil/taiki230705.pdf

IAEA reports, nuke profits

IAEA:

Radiological Monitoring and Consequences of Fukushima Nuclear Accident (2 June 2011)
http://slidesha.re/jc7RmP

IAEA Marine Environment Monitoring of Fukushima Nuclear Accident (2 June 2011)
http://slidesha.re/lY4FJ2


The Japan Times Online

38 years of nuke profit up in smoke?
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110629a2.html
By analyzing Tepco's financial statements, Oshima put its cumulative profits from its nuclear power business at ¥3.995 trillion between the business years of 1970 and 2007, which ended in March 2008. Tepco operates three nuclear power plants — the six-reactor Fukushima No. 1 plant, four-reactor Fukushima No. 2 plant and seven-reactor Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. faces a potential damages bill exceeding its profits from nuclear power generation over a 38-year period beginning in 1970, the year it opened the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 plant, according to a recent study.
The cost of power generation per kilowatt hour came to ¥10.68 for nuclear power, ¥9.90 for thermal power and ¥7.26 for hydraulic power on average during the 38-year period, when expenses for disposal of radioactive waste and subsidizing... local governments hosting nuclear plants are added to direct costs, he said.
The cost of nuclear power rose to ¥12.23 per kwh when pumped-up water power generation using power generated by reactors at night is taken into account, the economist added.

Fukushima City radiation readings

My Radiation

Got the little 2-page paper from city hall. Online:
http://www.city.funabashi.chiba.jp/information/p015704_d/fil/kuukansenryou-houkoku.pdf
www.city.funabashi.chiba.jp
They measured radiation at a dozen or so schools around town. Numbers ranged from 0.14 microsieverts/hr to 0.69 microsieverts/hr. These new official numbers are about 3-15 times the levels reported for Ichikawa or Tokyo at
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/radiation-levels.html?date=20110617
or at
http://atmc.jp/
(0.044µ, 0.051µ)

wats gud fr dh guus…

White House & NRC Recommend 50 Mile Fukushima Evacuation, Yet Insist US Safe With Only 10
Fairewinds' chief engineer Arnie Gundersen emphasizes the need to enlarge evacuation zones around US nuclear plants to 50 miles. Reducing US evacuation zones to only 10 miles during a nuclear power accident compromises public safety.

White House & NRC Recommend 50 Mile Fukushima Evacuation, Yet Insist US Safe With Only 10 from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

Feishal rekagnishan (feisbuk)

Facebook rolls out facial recognition for all
http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/56459-facebook-rolls-out-facial-recognition-for-all
Last year Facebook rolled out its facial recognition feature, which allows users to tag their friends in photos based on facial features. When the feature was first announced, it was limited...

Skynet NEEDS facial recognition in order for its terminators to function correctly. That's why it sent "Mark Zuckerberg" back to create it.

Brian Eno as Guest DJ on NPR

Guest DJ Brian Eno : NPR
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/31/136723328/guest-dj-brian-eno
In advance of his new album Drums Between the Bells, the influential artist and producer shares some of his favorite new and old music.

May Link Dump - Fukushima

It's actually September, reader. These are some post-dated(?) posts. I tend to throw links up on FB, where they could be read by a few dozen people, and which can be easier than Blogger, altho limited and perishable. I am picking a few links and skipping the handful of news items (mostly Fukushima-related) that I post more or less daily.

http://atmc.jp/food/

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/

http://fukushima.greenaction-japan.org/

http://www.cnic.jp/english/cnic/index.html

http://blog.safecast.org/

New Work Reinforces Megaquake's Harsh Lessons in Geoscience
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6032/911.full

High-tech analyses of Japan's March earthquake overturn long-held views of fault behavior and warn that another disaster may be looming.... Simons and colleagues see “the possibility of a sibling to the 2011 event” that could be “similar to what just occurred offshore,” but half as far from Tokyo. So researchers are anxious to find out whether the stress transferred southward from the 9 has accelerated slow slip on the fault and thus defused the threat of a quake.

Schoolyard Radiation Policy Brings a Backlash
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6032/909.full

The Japanese government's most controversial misstep in response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis may have been the release of guidelines on allowable radiological contamination in schoolyards.
The education ministry calculated that children could spend 8 hours a day in a schoolyard exposed to as much as 3.8 microsieverts per hour, and 16 hours a day indoors exposed to 1.52 microsieverts per hour, and not exceed the 20-mSv limit.

Fukushima Revives The Low-Dose Debate
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6032/908.full

The general public avoided exposure to high levels of radioactivity, but questions linger about the long-term effects of contamination.
Across Fukushima and neighboring prefectures, small amounts of cesium-134 and cesium-137, isotopes with half-lives of 2 and 30 years respectively, lie on the ground. Cleanup workers have stripped contaminated topsoil from some schoolyards, and remediation or permanent evacuation is likely for the worst areas.

Radiation Monitoring Data from Fukushima Area 05/13/2011
http://www.slideshare.net/energy/radiation-monitoring-data-from-fukushima-area-05132011-7986654
In March, the U.S. Department of Energy released data recorded from its Aerial Measuring System as well as ground...
Includes radiation measurements for the Shinkansen route from Tokyo to Sendai between and at stations.


http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2011/05/26/5536460.htm
The 60 billion yen project on a vacant 19-hectare site of a former Panasonic plant will see the construction of 1,000 homes as well as various facilities that will be powered using solar power generation and home-use storage battery systems, the consumer electronics giant said. The planned town, called Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town, will also promote the sharing of electric vehicles.

Jumieka Langwij

http://www.jumieka.com/

Linggwis dem aidentifai "pior" Jumiekan, fain muosli a konchri, wid riijanal difrans, laka wahn mixcho a sebntiin sentri hIngglish ahn Wes Afrikan, muosli Shwi, kanschrokshan ahn vokiabileri, wid som Panish ahn Puotigiis iin de tu fi a gud mixop. Di haxent ahn kiedens kohn frahn Sikatish ahn hAirish.

Kansda di ischri a Jumieka, dis shudn sopraizn sens di bolk a di papiulieshan dem a disendant frahn slieb kiaa kom frahn Wes Afrika, fos bai di Panish, den dem laan hIngglish frahn dehn British uona, uobasior, hadvenchara, ahn mishaneridem.

Nature: Reactors, residents and risk

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110421/full/472400a.html
. . .

Conventionally, nuclear plant operators have considered some accident sequences so unlikely that they have not built in complete safeguards — such accidents are called 'beyond design basis' events. . . . The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant has seven reactors, making it the world's biggest in terms of electrical output at 7,965 megawatts.

Gundersen: Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History

Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

http://fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-groundwater-contamination-worst-nuclear-history

http://fairewinds.com/updates