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Ending Man-Made Disasters I feel that this is an opportune time to write in praise of fire codes and building inspectors.
Natural disasters are not natural. In large part, they are products of poverty, neglect, and exploitation...Vigilant regulation and careful public preparation for emergencies went far in making the destruction and death in Japan much less ghastly than it might have been....
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2011 7:54am PDT
A meltdown could spread radioactive particles across Japan and Beyond Reuters: rapidly deteriorating conditions inside Fukushima have threatened a meltdown with the potential to spread radioactive particles across the country and beyond...
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2011 1:02am PDT
Online letter to tell Congress: No more taxpayer $ for more nuclear power! The given link ( http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5848 ) goes to an online webpage whereby you can quickly send a letter to your Congressmembers (both U.S. Senators plus your House member) -- by just typing in your zip code. You can also modify the short form letter that NIRS ( http://nirs.org ) provides, if you want. Please take action now! Let's "strike while the iron is hot"!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 10:27pm PDT
Japanese Concede: "Chernobyl Solution" may be needed Japan's nuclear agency spokesman conceded that a "Chernobyl solution" of burying the reactors in sand and concrete was in the back of the authorities' minds.
via Reuters at about 9pm PST...
Posted: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 9:40pm PDT
US State Dept has Chartered Aircraft to help Americans Leave Japan From Reuters: State Dept. strongly urges Americans to defer travel to Japan and says "those in Japan should consider departing."
The State Department said the United States has chartered aircraft to help Americans leave Japan....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 11:37pm PDT
MLPA Initiative on KZYX/Z Radio with Adam Wagschal and Atta Stevenson Chris Skyhawk, KZYX Public Affairs Programmer, interviews guests Adam Wagshal and Atta Stevenson about the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process on the North Coast....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 11:24pm PDT
Expert says: At Chernobyl Level Now "I think it is at Chernobyl level now. 100 times worse than the worst case we could have imagined a year ago," says Arnie Gundersen who was a nuclear industry executive for many years....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 5:01pm PDT
Warning from Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Situation in Japan Worsens While NHK in Japanese is focusing on immediate survival advice for people evacuated from their homes in northeast Japan, western news sources including CNN are covering the nuclear situation with interviews with Hilary Clinton and Gregory Jaczko of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Al Jazeera English reports on situation in Tokyo....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 4:09pm PDT
From Bad to Worse: Are the Problems at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Spiralling Out of Contr The question now is how much longer the last-ditch safety measures at the damaged units can hold out before the chain reaction... gets irretrieviably out of control.... As a sign of just how bad things are getting, the Japanese government raised the amount of radiation workers could be exposed to from 100 millisieverts to 250 millisieverts....
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 2:47pm PDT
Take one minute to tell Obama to reverse his support of risky nuclear power! This is an online webpage petition sponsored by Credo Action (which is a branch of Working Assets). It should only take you about a minute! Here is the URL address: http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/say_no_to_nuclear/?rc=homepage...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 9:48am PDT
Farallones Sanctuary Warns Boaters: Watch out for Whales Gulf of the Farallones marine sanctuary warns boaters that gray whales are visiting California waters now and that they should watch out for them in nearshore outer coastal waters, as well as in San Francisco and Tomales bays. Females with newborn calves are especially vulnerable to shipstrike and disturbance. Boaters should not: Approach within 300 feet (the length of a football field) of any whale; should not cut across a whale’s path, nor make sudden speed or directional changes; should no...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 9:28am PDT
180 Nuclear Workers Now in Reactor: Face Extreme Risk Summary of report from Minnesota Public Radio
After a minimum crew of 50 workers were withdrawn from the nuclear reactor at Fukushima, 180 have re-entered. They face extreme risk to their health...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 8:59am PDT
Red Alert in Japan: An Unfolding Nuclear Catastrophe nuclear disaster...
Posted: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 1:33am PDT
Breaking News: Major Aftershock Rocks Japan Aftershocks raging from magnitudes 3 to 6 on the Japanese scale hit this evening at about 9pm (PST) off eastern coast of Japan, closer to Tokyo than last week's mega earthquake. NHK showed an aftershock of several minutes from atop their broadcast station at Mito, near Tokyo....
Posted: Tue, Mar 15, 2011 9:17pm PDT
NHK: 50 remaining workers at Nuclear Plant Withdrawn Japanese national television NHK said that the 50 remaining workers at Fukushima's Daiichi nuclear reactor have been withdrawn because of high levels of radiation....
Posted: Tue, Mar 15, 2011 8:33pm PDT
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