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16 Mar 2011 09:34 #81
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WSJ yesterday - good article on the Nuclear Meltdown (s)......
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16 Mar 2011 10:06 #82
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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again - Jeanne Pincha-Tulley
Comprehensive is Latin for there is lots of bad stuff in it - Trey Gowdy
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Would be nice to have a link to that good article...
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again - Jeanne Pincha-Tulley
Comprehensive is Latin for there is lots of bad stuff in it - Trey Gowdy
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16 Mar 2011 10:17 #83
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"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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Some science perspective:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbe ... _of_a.html
Fukushima crisis: Anatomy of a meltdown - March 13, 2011
http://blogs.nature.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-s ... =fukushima
Updates by day
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbe ... hhold.html
Exclusive: Nuclear test ban agency has valuable radiation monitoring data from Japan nuclear accident -- but can't share them - March 14, 2011
http://www.scientificamerican.com/repor ... ke-tsunami
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... rgy-primer
What Happens During a Nuclear Meltdown?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... acts-japan
Fast facts
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... r-seawater
Is Seawater a Last Resort to Cooling Japan's Nuclear Reactors?
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsid ... o-far.html
Fukushima's Radiation So Far
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbe ... _of_a.html
Fukushima crisis: Anatomy of a meltdown - March 13, 2011
http://blogs.nature.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-s ... =fukushima
Updates by day
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbe ... hhold.html
Exclusive: Nuclear test ban agency has valuable radiation monitoring data from Japan nuclear accident -- but can't share them - March 14, 2011
http://www.scientificamerican.com/repor ... ke-tsunami
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... rgy-primer
What Happens During a Nuclear Meltdown?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... acts-japan
Fast facts
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... r-seawater
Is Seawater a Last Resort to Cooling Japan's Nuclear Reactors?
The move by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates Daiichi, to use seawater doped with neutron-absorbing boron in the reactors' pressure vessels all but ensures that they will never function properly again, permanently damaging one of the world's 25 largest nuclear power stations.
The prospect of ruining a half dozen nuclear reactors pales in comparison with the alternative—a complete meltdown that would contaminate the ground below the complex with radioactive material that could be spread by wind, rain and groundwater, potentially causing radiation sickness in thousands of people.
Scientific American spoke with Pavel Tsvetkov, an assistant nuclear engineering professor at Texas A&M University in College Station, about why seawater is a last resort for cooling compromised nuclear reactors and TEPCO's options moving forward.
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsid ... o-far.html
Fukushima's Radiation So Far
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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16 Mar 2011 11:54 #84
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[youtube:51flxt01][/youtube:51flxt01]
Video presentation of the STATIM Shelter System, a groundbreaking emergency preparedness approach against natural disasters such as tsunamis and major floods. The STATIM Shelter represents a major breakthrough on addressing these kinds of natural catastrophe worldwide.
Video presentation of the STATIM Shelter System, a groundbreaking emergency preparedness approach against natural disasters such as tsunamis and major floods. The STATIM Shelter represents a major breakthrough on addressing these kinds of natural catastrophe worldwide.
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16 Mar 2011 18:37 #85
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Um.. did you notice there are no actual PHOTOS of the finished product they are pitching? My guess is they have it on paper but haven't actually built one. If they haven't built one, then they haven't actually been able to test it.
If they have built one, I'm sure they would have featured photos in their sales presentation.
If they have built one, I'm sure they would have featured photos in their sales presentation.
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16 Mar 2011 19:04 #86
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Actually this is not produced yet. It is just in the planning stages. I saw it on CNN.
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16 Mar 2011 20:12 #87
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It seems like the people inside would get knocked around unless they were harnessed to their seats and even then, they'd get extremely seasick with all the rolling during the initial waves. what would be a better idea to me would be a quick-inflatable balloon.. to lift a family up about 100-200 feet in the air so the tsunami would go by underneath them... Not sure what to do next..
Perhaps the people that designed the vehicle in the video could get sponsorship from Oscar Mayer to help pay for development.
Perhaps the people that designed the vehicle in the video could get sponsorship from Oscar Mayer to help pay for development.
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27 Mar 2011 17:21 #88
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28 Mar 2011 20:39 #89
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This is incredible. I cannot believe what an earthquake can do to the ocean.
[youtube:1zvmwfpv][/youtube:1zvmwfpv]
[youtube:1zvmwfpv][/youtube:1zvmwfpv]
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03 Apr 2011 07:44 #90
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A stunning video posted on YouTube captures the Japan tsunami ravaging the city of Kesennuma, in the northeastern part of the country.
The clip begins as a wall of water breaches the coastline and starts sweeping away a parking lot of cars. Sirens sound and a man's voice is heard giving alerts as the water quickly engulfs the entire area. Within minutes, the surging water has left a path of mass destruction as cars are swept away and buildings are reduced to rubble.
Kesennuma, located 300 miles northeast of Tokyo in Miyagi prefecture, was near the epicenter of the March 11 earthquake that triggered the tsunami. The magnitude-9 quake was the strongest ever to strike the nation.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/27/stunn ... kesennuma/
The clip begins as a wall of water breaches the coastline and starts sweeping away a parking lot of cars. Sirens sound and a man's voice is heard giving alerts as the water quickly engulfs the entire area. Within minutes, the surging water has left a path of mass destruction as cars are swept away and buildings are reduced to rubble.
Kesennuma, located 300 miles northeast of Tokyo in Miyagi prefecture, was near the epicenter of the March 11 earthquake that triggered the tsunami. The magnitude-9 quake was the strongest ever to strike the nation.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/27/stunn ... kesennuma/
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