Bury It Deep
So, we’re about three hours away from April’s Fools Day, EST, and maybe I’m getting punked, but I got this from two sources.. AUGUSTA, Ga. — Authorities say the world’s largest concrete pump will be flown from Atlanta to Japan on the world’s largest cargo plane as part of a series of emergency steps to [...]
Radioactive Marker
This article in today’s New York Times is not panic-inducing, but neither is it reassuring… Tests of milk samples taken last week in Spokane, Wash., indicate the presence of radioactive iodine from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, but at levels far below those at which action would have to be taken, the [...]
The Warrior in All of Us
Oh, the warriors within us! Longfellow said it eloquently: ”If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s … suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” Indeed. And yet, we do find many things to argue about. Usually it’s not so much about the subject as it is about someone being [...]
Workers on the Front Lines in Fukushima
The most chilling scenes in the movie, ‘Silkwood’ show nuclear plant workers being hustled off by faceless guards in hazard suits as alarms blare, then brutally hosed down to try to wash away the contamination. This time it’s not a movie. The Japan Times reports on the workers in the disabled nuclear plants, struggling without [...]
A Life Well-Lived– Joe Bageant
Today’s Daily Kos has a celebration of the life and work of Joe Bageant a self-described redneck and unashamed progressive. A man who worked hard and wrote funny and illuminating commentaries on the war on terror, and those who were expected to actually fight it and pay for it too. He also wrote, ‘Deer Hunting [...]
Bills Come Due
One of the disadvantages of nuclear power is the problem of waste disposal, and the enormous costs both of building a plant, and safely dismantling it about thirty years later. From Reuters News Service… IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] Director General Yukiya Amano this week said international safety standards needed to be strengthened but the [...]
Prevailing Winds
A reminder from the Boston Herald that spaceship Earth is a closed system and what goes around comes around… This just in to the City Desk … the state Department of Public Health announced today they have detected low levels of radiation in Massachusetts rainwater, likely from the nuclear fallout from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi [...]
Japan– Uncontrolled News Leak
Thanks to Dem from CT on Daily Kos for this fine post about crowdsourcing vital news. The idea that governments or companies or anyone gets to control information is sooo 20th century. Sure, plenty of things are secret (but ask the Wikileaks folks for how long) while/but plenty of things are out there for anyone [...]
Situation Worsens in Japan
It’s a bad sign that it’s taking so long for Japan to get its nuclear reactors under control. From Reuters today… (Reuters) – Highly radioactive water has been found at a second reactor at a crippled nuclear power station in Japan, the plant’s operator said, as fears of contamination escalated two weeks after a huge [...]
No Immediate Risk
Gotta run, just time to post this link to an article about the long-term problems in a town in Sweden that was in the path of the radiation plume from Chernobyl. A heavy rain washed dust from the plume to the ground and this stuff doesn’t go away.
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