BY EISUKE SASAKI STAFF WRITER19 May 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. is sticking to its goal of stabilizing the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant by July despite radical revisions to its initial strategy after larger-than-expected damage was confirmed. … High radiation levels prevented workers from taking specific measures over the past month at […]
TEPCO has just released new photos of the March 11th tsunami hitting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The following sequence shows the first tsunami wave approaching the plant, overwhelming the sea wall, and washing away vehicles. Tsunami wave approaches the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, 11 March 2011. The location is the slope at […]
By Scott Haggett and Jeffrey Jones; editing by Rob Wilson18 May 2011 CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Canadian oil production cuts could more than double by Wednesday as companies move to protect employees and property from wildfires raging through northern Alberta and cope with the shutdown of a key pipeline. Oil companies had shut in close […]
May 18 (AFP) — Chinese factories are facing curbs on electricity use as coal prices soar and a severe drought hits hydropower plants, state media have said, with possible major shortages ahead this summer. The situation has highlighted the difficulties faced by China, the world’s largest energy consumer, as global fuel prices climb and the […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera17 May 2011 From the blog of Professor Bin Mori of Tokyo University Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences: Autoradiograph of Equisetum arvense (Horsetail; young shoots are edible), picked on May 3: This is an enlargement of one part of the skirt. The distribution is uniform, so the particles are likely spores. […]
TOKYO, May 14 (AFP) – A highly radioactive substance was detected in ash from an incinerator at a sewage works in Tokyo in late March following the nation’s worst nuclear accident in Fukushima, newspapers reported Saturday. The ash, containing an unidentified substance with a radioactive density of 170,000 Becquerel per kilogramme, was collected from a […]
Posted by LuqmanNaq18 August 2010 Here is Dmitry Orlov’s book reinventing collapse (highly recommended) – http://amzn.to/l9tEih Dmitry Orlov – Why superpowers collapse (short clip)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3rloGDFinM Post collapse, best practices (long talk)http://fora.tv/2009/02/13/Dmitry_Orlov_Social_Collapse_Best_Practices 5 stages of collapsehttp://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2008/02/five-stages-of-collapse.html What will a post collapse society look like? Technorati Tags: doom,infrastructure failure,corruption,Orlov
By Kamome Fujimori, Tatsuyuki Kobori and Yo Noguchi14 May 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. concealed data showing spikes in radiation levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March, one day before a hydrogen explosion injured seven workers. The Asahi Shimbun obtained a 100-page internal TEPCO report containing minute-to-minute data on radiation levels […]
[Reposted due to the Great Blogger Disaster of May 11th.] A report from the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission Ex-Secretariat, Dr. Saji, credits the current status of the accident to “luck”. Gundersen discusses what could have happened if the wind had been blowing in-land. Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure
[Reposted due to the Great Blogger Disaster of May 11th.] TOKYO, May 12 (AFP) – Environmental activist group Greenpeace said Thursday it had detected radiation far above legal limits in seaweed samples taken from the ocean off Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Greenpeace, which sent its Rainbow Warrior flagship to take samples of marine life […]
