By arevamirpal::laprimavera 5 October 2011 A mere formality probably at this point, but it is upsetting some people in Japan right now. From Yomiuri Shinbun (10/6/2011): 国内の被曝(ひばく)線量の基準などを検討する文部科学省の放射線審議会の基本部会は６日、東京電力福島第一原子力発電所事故で放射性物質が拡散した状況下の一般住民の被曝線量について、「年間１～２０ミリ・シーベルトの範囲で可能な限り低い値を段階的に設定する」とする見解案をまとめた。 The Radiation Council at the Ministry of Education and Science submitted its opinion on the domestic standard on radiation exposure on October 6. Considering the current situation of […]
By Yuriy Humber, Yuji Okada, and Stuart Biggs27 September 2011 Beyond the police roadblocks that mark the no-go zone around Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, six-foot tall weeds invade rice paddies and vines gone wild strangle road signs along empty streets. Takako Harada, 80, returned to an evacuated area of Iitate village to retrieve her […]
By Elizabeth Grossman16 May 2011 New York City’s low-income neighborhoods and California’s Salinas Valley, where 80 percent of the United States’ lettuce is grown, could hardly be more different. But scientists have discovered that children growing up in these communities — one characterized by the rattle of subway trains, the other by acres of produce […]
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Loss of the Earth’s ozone layer above the Arctic last winter was unprecedented, scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told CNN on Monday. In findings published in a new study in the journal Nature, scientists said a hole in the ozone was caused by an unusually long period of low temperatures in the stratosphere, the […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register27 September 2011 MOBILE, Alabama — The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it would require Transocean, owner of the drilling rig that exploded and unleashed the Gulf spill, to determine the source of the BP oil found floating above the wellhead. The announcement came one month after the Press-Register collected samples […]
By Elizabeth Grossman29 September 2011 Over the past 40 years, a class of chemicals with the tongue-twisting name of halogenated flame retardants has permeated the lives of people throughout the industrialized world. These synthetic chemicals — used in electronics, upholstery, carpets, textiles, insulation, vehicle and airplane parts, children’s clothes and strollers, and many other products […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 26 September 2011 The Japanese government says it will abolish the “evacuation-ready” zone in 5 municipalities that lie between 20 to 30-kilometer radius from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on September 30, all at once. It may be construed as a declaration by the national government that it is now “safe” to return […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register 26 September 2011, While the source of the oil bubbling up around the Deepwater Horizon site remains a mystery, a Louisiana State University scientist says further chemical analysis has confirmed that the oil originated in BP’s well, and not from other nearby sources, as federal officials have suggested. Federal officials said […]
A camera mounted on a crane captured this view into the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Reactor Building during a dust-sampling survey on 24 August 2011. Steam is visible in the upper-left corner at 1:14. This location is approximately over the reactor. TEPCO Steam venting from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Reactor Building, 24 Aug 2011 Technorati […]
