Showing posts with label Fukushima Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fukushima Japan. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Obama's new library reminds me of something, can't quite put my finger on it because, well, it's too hot

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Sunday, January 1, 2023

Germany boosts electricity from coal to 10 gigawatts, a drop in the bucket

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 Bloomberg, here : Germany now generates   more than a third   of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, according to Destatis, the f...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Germany remains the cause of and the solution to all of Europe's problems: Flip the switch to "On" and Germany's need for Russian gas ends

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... in 2010, when Germany was generating more than 20 percent of its electricity from nuclear power plants, Chancellor Angela Merkel extende...
Friday, May 25, 2018

GE's Obama champion Jeff Immelt took its bonds from AAA to one notch above junk, just like its products

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From the story here , which never once mentions the problem of declining product quality: It’s a bad day for a CEO when he announces h...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

German AfD comes in a strong third, Social Democrats crash, Merkel forced to form coalition with FDP and Greens

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The UK Telegraph reports here : The SPD’s decision to return to opposition has limited her options, with a three-way coalition with th...
Friday, February 3, 2017

Unimaginably high radiation reading at Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 2: 530 sieverts

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Just 8 sieverts will kill you dead. Story here .
Monday, August 10, 2015

Japan will finally restart one nuclear power reactor tomorrow after 4-year shutdown since Fukushima accident

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Reported here : Japan's 48 functioning reactors have largely been shut since the catastrophe at Tokyo Electric Power Company's...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Cesium 134 has made it to within 100 miles of Eureka, California

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Reported here : The group found traces of cesium-134, a radioactive element released by the [Fukushima] power plant [in 2011], 100 mil...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Japan poised to rise from the dead: nuclear plants finally to begin restart after 2011 Fukushima disaster

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The Japan Times reports here : The Nuclear Regulation Authority is moving toward the first reactor restart under its new safety requirements...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Radioactive Water Tank Leaks At Fukushima Produce 2.2 Sv/hr

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Reported here : Readings just above the ground near a set of tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi plant showed radiation as high as 2,200 millisie...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

350 Radioactive Water Storage Tanks At Fukushima Have Rubber Seals, Not Welded, Just Like The One That's Leaking

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There's a line in Heartbreak Ridge which updates snafu . That's Fukushima, except there's nothing normal about pools of leakin...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Radiation Conditions Near The Fukushima Reactors Almost 2 Years Since The Accident

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Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company) here provides a useful summary of daily radiation conditions at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Pl...

Radiation In Namie Town, Japan, Almost 2 Years After Fukushima Meltdowns

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The pdf of the latest readings of radiation in the areas surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (marked with an X on the map ...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Radiation From Fukushima Accident Revised Up In New Report

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CNN.com reports  here : Japan's largest utility said Thursday that more radiation than previously thought was released into the atmosphe...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

One Year Out, Radiation in Futaba Japan 5 km from Nuke Accident Remains Dangerous

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Here's a screen shot from Fukushima Diary showing recent, very high radiation readings measured at ground level and in a car in Futaba t...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Radioactivity 150 Miles From Vermont's Troubled, Aging Yankee Nuclear Plant Blamed on Atmospheric Testing in 1940s and 1950s, and on Chernobyl

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Strontium-90 has been found in bass far from Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, according to this story : Now, new tests of bass caught 150...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Radiation 3km WSW From Fukushima the Day After Christmas 65.10 Microsieverts Per Hour

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That's still over 90 times what an American can expect on average from all sources, including natural environmental, medical and tra...
Monday, September 26, 2011

The Incident at Fukushima Six Months Later

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Bloomberg.com has a very affecting story about the aftermath of the earthquakes, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima. A brief excerp...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Radiation Readings 3km from Fukushima Plant as High as 68 Microsieverts/Hr on 9/22/11

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As reported here :

Latest Fukushima Map Shows Four Radiation Hotspots NW of Nuke Plants

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As shown on today's map from mext.go.jp/ here , air measurements continue to show values from 15 to 31 microsieverts per hour northwest ...