Blogging the End of the World™
By Stuart Biggs, Kanoko Matsuyama, and Frederik Balfour 25 April 2011 The wreckage of a 379-metric ton tuna boat blocks the road to the deserted fish market in Kesennuma, once Japan’s largest port for bonito and swordfish. Even after the debris from last month’s tsunami has been cleared away, the industry may never recover. “Thirty […]
Measured distribution of radioactive contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in millisieverts/hour. Asahi Shimbun / www.ex-skf.blogspot.com The official TEPCO map of radioactive contamination at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in millisieverts/hour, 24 April 2011. Sankei Shinbun / www.ex-skf.blogspot.com #Fukushima I Nuke Plant “Contamination Map” Emerges, Sort Of… Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure
Washington, April 22 (IANS) – Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea-level rise than scientists previously suspected. For instance, the 550,000-square-mile Canadian Arctic Archipelago contains some 30,000 islands. Between 2004 and 2009, the region lost the equivalent of three-quarters of the water in Lake Erie, found […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera23 April 2011 Fukushima I nuke plant: 154 terabecquerels per day, every day, of radioactive iodine and cesium are still spewing out of the plant, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission now admits. On April 12, during the joint press conference with Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) where they jointly announced the Fukushima I Plant […]
By KATE GALBRAITH22 April 2011 The severe drought across Texas has hit the oil and gas city of Midland especially hard, as I reported in Friday’s New York Times and Texas Tribune. Since Oct. 1, Midland has received only 0.13 inches of rainfall — making it “most likely the driest six-and-a-half-month period in recorded history,” […]
French nuclear conglomerate AREVA presented this slide deck during an invitation-only meeting at Stanford University on 21 March 2011. The Fukushima Daiichi Incident outlines the probable course of events, from the earthquake to the meltdowns. Most of this information hasn’t received widespread media coverage, but Arnie Gunderson and the folks at Fairewinds have liberated it […]
By Anita Pugliese and Julie Ray20 April 2011 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallup surveys in 111 countries in 2010 find Americans and Europeans feeling substantially less threatened by climate change than they did a few years ago, while more Latin Americans and sub-Saharan Africans see themselves at risk. The 42% of adults worldwide who see global […]
April 23 (Asahi Shimbun) – The 83-year-old man spoke with tears in his eyes. “It’s all over. It is better to just die.” He had just learned his small farm would be sealed off at midnight April 21 inside the government’s no-entry zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Like many with properties […]
TOKYO, April 23 (Kyodo) – Workers at a nuclear power plant damaged by last month’s earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeast continued battling to deal with radioactive water Saturday as their exposure to radiation is constantly increasing. One more worker is found to have been exposed to radiation of more than 100 millisieverts, bringing […]
By Roger Highfield 21 April 2011 A quarter of a century after the world’s worst nuclear accident, experts still can’t agree how many people it killed. Two people died immediately as a result of the blast at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine – then part of the Soviet Union – on 26 April 1986. […]
