March 27, 2011 archive

Essays Featured Sunday the 27^th of March~

Late Night Karaoke shines a spotlight on Massive Attack, mishima DJs

Six Brilliant Articles! from Six Different Places!! on Six Different Topics!!!

                Six Days a Week!!!    at Six in the Morning!!!!

Insanity from Alma in Sunday Open Thoughts

edger highlights a recent article from F. William Engdahl in The Curious Libya ‘opposition’

While spring cleaning the bookmarks RiaD found the question Is more equal more green?

In the latest edition of Sunday Bread Bill Egnor shares my long lost recipe(!) Oat Raisin Bread.

I am forever grateful.  

Our regular featured content-

• Six In The Morning by mishima
• On This Day In History by TheMomCat
• Punting the Pundits by TheMomCat

And these articles-

• F1: Melbourne by ek hornbeck (Formula One Season Opener Special Coverage)
• The Week in Editorial Cartoons – "I Have Here in My Hand a List of…" by JekyllnHyde
• Obama To Appoint a Bush Guantanamo Psychologist? by TheMomCat
• Rant of the Week: Stephen Colbert by TheMomCat (a weekly feature)

Also expecting the publication of-

• Evening Edition by TheMomCat
• Pique the Geek by Translator

Special live blogging of the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament-

• Regional Finals Day 2
• Round of 16 Day 2

The Stars Hollow Gazette

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Japan nuclear: Workers evacuated as radiation soars

Radioactivity in water at reactor 2 at the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant has reached 10 million times the usual level, company officials say.

The BBC  27 March 2011

Workers trying to cool the reactor core to avoid a meltdown have been evacuated.

Earlier, Japan’s nuclear agency said that levels of radioactive iodine in the sea near the plant had risen to 1,850 times the usual level.

The UN’s nuclear agency has warned the crisis could go on for months.

It is believed the radiation at Fukushima is coming from one of the reactors, but a specific leak has not been identified.

Leaking water at reactor 2 has been measured at 1,000 millisieverts/hour – 10 million times higher than when the plant is operating normally.

Bloomberg’s daily status report from Fukushima…

No. 2: Contaminated water in the turbine structure contains 10 million times more radiation than normal cooling water, NHK said.

So how bad is that?

The water in the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 2 reactor’s turbine building was measured at more than 1,000 millisieverts per hour, Japan’s nuclear safety agency said today.

The normal radiation level that we receive over a year is about four millisieverts,” said Stephen Lincoln, a nuclear power and uranium specialist at the University of Adelaide.

In other words, the dose you get at Fukushima in one hour is the same as what you would normally absorb in 250 years!

Two articles tonight point to the exponentially growing catastrophe in Japan.  The first is an NHK report of radiation levels 10 million times greater than normal.  In the second, Michio Kaku discusses the increasing evidence for a possible [probable?-dsyd] breach of containment.  Even if it is still only “possible,” it seems to be becoming more and more “probable.”  This is a tragic catastrophe.  

The only possible positive result would be for the people of the world to now rise up and say “NO” to all things nuclear — at least until such time, perhaps 1K years from now, when humans might have learned how to handle it in a respectful, humble manner.  

UPDATE, 11:30 AM PST, 3/27/11:  I found the correction upon arising this morning.  TMC and Mishima both pointed out that Tepco officials had retracted the 10 million report, calling it a math error.  Instead of 10 million, the specified radioctivity was 100,000 times normal.  See the discussion and link to AP article in the comments below.

The article“Extreme radiation detected at No.2 reactor” is below the fold:

The link vid & print here