We scuffed our feet on the bare floors, working-up the signal-voltage in static electricity, before gripping the bare copper wires long enough to shout for the operator.
Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit
TOKYO â" The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish.
The reading of iodine-131 was recorded Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Another sample taken Monday found the level to be 5 million times the legal limit. The Monday samples also were found to contain radioactive cesium at 1.1 million times the legal limit.
The exact source of the radiation was not immediately clear, though Tepco has said that highly contaminated water has been leaking from a pit near the No. 2 reactor. The utility initially believed that the leak was coming from a crack, but several attempts to seal the crack failed.
"United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
Clownfish seem to nest among rusted Huffy bicycles, almost naturally. And those plastic utensils? a container fill of 7.5 million Dixie Sporks is a haven for krill shrimp and barnacles.
Funny. They didn't used to ship those things in to the US.
I like my CLI smartphone. With wget and Perl5, I don't need any of those useless, cluttery widgets for connecting GPS to reviews of local restaurants - and dialling is a breeze, as I grep through the flatfile of contacts I have acumulated by rsyncing from my desktop dump of the company LDAP.
Your hypothesis is proven though its results - look at the millions of jobs flooding into the United States from former outsourcing. The weight of those domestic unions in creating an unfair balance against the interests of big business is overwhelming!
And speaking of social services! I know that I voted for the bastards - 'cos they bribed me with the promise of paved streets and a fire department.
Worse Than Chernobyl: When the Fukushima Meltdown Hits Groundwater
by Tom Burnett
Fukushima is going to dwarf Chenobyl.The Japanese government has had a level 7 nuclear disaster going for almost a week but won’t admit it.
The disaster is occurring the opposite way than Chernobyl, which exploded and stopped the reaction. At Fukushima, the reactions are getting worse. I suspect three nuclear piles are in meltdown and we will probably get some of it.
If reactor 3 is in meltdown, the concrete under the containment looks like lava. But Fukushima is not far off the water table. When that molten mass of self-sustaining nuclear material gets to the water table it won’t simply cool down. It will explode – not a nuclear explosion, but probably enough to involve the rest of the reactors and fuel rods at the facility.
Pouring concrete on a critical reactor makes no sense – it will simply explode and release more radioactive particulate matter. The concrete will melt and the problem will get worse. Chernobyl was different – a critical reactor exploded and stopped the reaction. At Fukushima, the reactor cores are still melting down. The ONLY way to stop that is to detonate a ~10 kiloton fission device inside each reactor containment vessel and hope to vaporize the cores. That’s probably a bad solution.
A nuclear meltdown is a self-sustaining reaction. Nothing can stop it except stopping the reaction. And that would require a nuclear weapon. In fact, it would require one in each containment vessel to merely stop what is going on now. But it will be messy.
Fukushima was waiting to happen because of the placement of the emergency generators. If they had not all failed at once by being inundated by a tsunami, Fukushima would not have happened as it did – although it WOULD still have been a nuclear disaster.Every containment in the world is built to withstand a Magnitude 6.9 earthquake; the Japanese chose to ignore the fact thata similar earthquake had hit that same general area in 1896.
Anyway, here is the information that the US doesn’t seem to want released. And here is a chart that might help with perspective.
Making matters worse is the MOX in reactor 3. MOX is the street name for ‘mixed oxide fuel‘ which uses ~9% plutonium along with a uranium compound to fuel reactors. This is why it can be used.
The problem is that you don’t want to play with this stuff. A nuclear reactor means bring fissile material to a point at which it is hot enough to boil water (in a light-water reactor) and not enough to melt and go supercritical (China syndrome or aChernobyl incident). You simply cannot let it get away from you because if it does, you can’t stop it.
The Japanese are still talking about days or weeks to clean this up. That’s not true. They cannot clean it up. And no one will live in that area again for dozens or maybe hundreds of years.
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I await - after 15 years - my MIPS R4000 support with framebuffer devices for the SGI Indigo Elan and the unique TTY on this architecture.
"A better Iriix than Irix".
Maybe a working link in the Slashdot article? The #1 link is not an HREF.
Religion is a crutch for people who can't handle God.
Your very being is a miracle, which you see no better than a fish, who asks: "What is this 'water' you keep talking about.?"
200K? That's what, a belt, a pair of shoes, three handbags and a couple pairs of sunglasses.
Millionaire killing devices from the mind of Branson.
Nihilo Ordo Seclorum
Dial? You had a dial!?
We'd have given our eye-teeth for a dial.
We scuffed our feet on the bare floors, working-up the signal-voltage in static electricity, before gripping the bare copper wires long enough to shout for the operator.
Eat it now, before it cooks itself...
Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit
TOKYO â" The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility, and government officials imposed a new health limit for radioactivity in fish.
The reading of iodine-131 was recorded Saturday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. Another sample taken Monday found the level to be 5 million times the legal limit. The Monday samples also were found to contain radioactive cesium at 1.1 million times the legal limit.
The exact source of the radiation was not immediately clear, though Tepco has said that highly contaminated water has been leaking from a pit near the No. 2 reactor. The utility initially believed that the leak was coming from a crack, but several attempts to seal the crack failed.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/05/111571/japans-ocean-radiation-hits-75.html
Look! We fixed one of the any problems! Suceess!
"United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
Clownfish seem to nest among rusted Huffy bicycles, almost naturally. And those plastic utensils? a container fill of 7.5 million Dixie Sporks is a haven for krill shrimp and barnacles.
Funny. They didn't used to ship those things in to the US.
Every time you kick a puppy, God kills a kitten.
Please, think of the Domo-kuns.
I like my CLI smartphone. With wget and Perl5, I don't need any of those useless, cluttery widgets for connecting GPS to reviews of local restaurants - and dialling is a breeze, as I grep through the flatfile of contacts I have acumulated by rsyncing from my desktop dump of the company LDAP.
Small government Conservatives on the march.
Tell me bout it.
Chase. What a great name! Chase your customers away!
I left them this week. The wife and I calculated the United rewards point we were supposedly accruing, versus the usurious increase in rates.
Let us just say that with our balance, it is cheaper to buy points at the ticketing kiosk.
Another bank we do business with will transfer the balance - at 0% for 1 year.
Start here. Read it and look around. read some more, start to finish.
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2006/05/red-white-and-gray-part-two_30.html
Barbara Bush is the illegitimate daughter Aleister Crowley.
He drew a "Grey", before they were documented phenomena.
It's where the CIA boys put their effort after Project Blue Book.
UFO's are not interplanetary extraterrestrials.
They are supernatural manifestations associated with the metaphysical obsessions of the power-elite.
Your hypothesis is proven though its results - look at the millions of jobs flooding into the United States from former outsourcing. The weight of those domestic unions in creating an unfair balance against the interests of big business is overwhelming!
And speaking of social services! I know that I voted for the bastards - 'cos they bribed me with the promise of paved streets and a fire department.
Worse Than Chernobyl: When the Fukushima Meltdown Hits Groundwater
by Tom Burnett
Fukushima is going to dwarf Chenobyl.The Japanese government has had a level 7 nuclear disaster going for almost a week but won’t admit it.
The disaster is occurring the opposite way than Chernobyl, which exploded and stopped the reaction. At Fukushima, the reactions are getting worse. I suspect three nuclear piles are in meltdown and we will probably get some of it.
If reactor 3 is in meltdown, the concrete under the containment looks like lava. But Fukushima is not far off the water table. When that molten mass of self-sustaining nuclear material gets to the water table it won’t simply cool down. It will explode – not a nuclear explosion, but probably enough to involve the rest of the reactors and fuel rods at the facility.
Pouring concrete on a critical reactor makes no sense – it will simply explode and release more radioactive particulate matter. The concrete will melt and the problem will get worse. Chernobyl was different – a critical reactor exploded and stopped the reaction. At Fukushima, the reactor cores are still melting down. The ONLY way to stop that is to detonate a ~10 kiloton fission device inside each reactor containment vessel and hope to vaporize the cores. That’s probably a bad solution.
A nuclear meltdown is a self-sustaining reaction. Nothing can stop it except stopping the reaction. And that would require a nuclear weapon. In fact, it would require one in each containment vessel to merely stop what is going on now. But it will be messy.
Fukushima was waiting to happen because of the placement of the emergency generators. If they had not all failed at once by being inundated by a tsunami, Fukushima would not have happened as it did – although it WOULD still have been a nuclear disaster.Every containment in the world is built to withstand a Magnitude 6.9 earthquake; the Japanese chose to ignore the fact thata similar earthquake had hit that same general area in 1896.
Anyway, here is the information that the US doesn’t seem to want released. And here is a chart that might help with perspective.
Making matters worse is the MOX in reactor 3. MOX is the street name for ‘mixed oxide fuel‘ which uses ~9% plutonium along with a uranium compound to fuel reactors. This is why it can be used.
The problem is that you don’t want to play with this stuff. A nuclear reactor means bring fissile material to a point at which it is hot enough to boil water (in a light-water reactor) and not enough to melt and go supercritical (China syndrome or aChernobyl incident). You simply cannot let it get away from you because if it does, you can’t stop it.
The Japanese are still talking about days or weeks to clean this up. That’s not true. They cannot clean it up. And no one will live in that area again for dozens or maybe hundreds of years.
© 2011 Hawaii News Daily
Dr. Tom Burnett is a frequent contributor to the Hawaii News Daily.
There is no significant biological basis for "race". Phenotype is the least significant factor in, for instance, being "Black".
http://www.ahc.umn.edu/bioethics/afrgen/html/Themythofrace.html
More food for thought, on the question of racial bigotry vs. racism:
http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/define/bigots.html
Why are so-called "white people" so often uncomfortable thinking about this issue, and so seldom interested in it as a topic for study?
This has been drearily and horrifyingly predictable.
I'm nearly certain when this is all said and done, Japan will have an uninhabitable zone, comprising 10% of the land mass on the principal island.
And 3-headed babies.
News Corp.
Is there any other white elephant we can sell to that bastard, Murdoch?
Bleed him slowly - from a thousand cuts.
Ahh.... One can dream.
Does as much for Google as Jerry Yang was able to do for Yahoo!