Comments on: Japan Nuclear Disaster Update 30: It was, is, and will be worse than you thought

By: Hank Roberts

Hank Roberts — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:44:09 +0000

Apropos forensics and determining what damage happened from the earthquake before the tsunami — perhaps what Japan needs is a regulator and owner transplant.

“‘We have actually cut perfectly good welds out of pipes because a piece of paper in the inspection record was misplaced four years ago.’ But those are the rules of the game, he says, and you try to play by them. …”
http://blowhardwindbag.blogspot.com/2011/04/best-duke-power-successfully-owns-and.html

By: Hank Roberts

Hank Roberts — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:56:55 +0000

Greg, this looks like your blog post — copied without credit on someone else’s website:

http://www.worldwidenewscast.com/?p=103363

(don’t go there without malware protection, it may just be a clickfarm/ad collector, but could be something worse; Google turned that link up in the first page of a search for your columns)

By: Lyle

Lyle — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:03:30 +0000

An interesting revelation from the japan times, the site of the plant was originally at an elevation of 35m but they cut it down to 10 m because the biggest tsunami they could concieve of in the 1960s was 3.1m (there had never been a big earthquake in the region, they did not look hard enough, there were records of the 869 event, but likley they were mouldering in a library somewhere). Also it saved energy in terms of pumping water uphill.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110712x2.html

By: Howard T. Lewis III

Howard T. Lewis III — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:00:40 +0000

The distinct possibility of radiation dispersal because of the big push to get the queen lizard’s uranium in the markets without knowing how to contain spent fuel, and the IAEA big concern is to dominate the money fund for “compensations for accidents”. What a bunch of idiots. With Al ‘I got a D in natural science before I invented the internet’ Gore still running the inane global warming promo in the U.S..
The royal wankers don’t even consider the widespread one-way damage from radioactivity. They are just trying to be sure that they manage the compensation program. Does BP, President Ben Dover and only 4 billion in compensation paid out of a promised $20 million ring a bell? Store the spent fuel in Buckingham Palace and block the royal families’ door with it so they can’t get out if they like it so much. “Oh, don’t be so harsh” you say.”You do not appreciate life on earth”, I say.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:02:31 +0000

Helen, I defer to Ana for her hard work: The feed carries the day and that is entirely hers, I just do some emacs mojo to get it from a facebook note to a blog post.

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:37:23 +0000

You know, I thought it would be worse than I thought. Up until a few weeks ago, I’d pretty regularly Google around for Fukushima news, and regularly turned up precious little. After the first couple of weeks, it became non-news. Thank you for pulling all of this information together.

By: Pierce R. Butler

Pierce R. Butler — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:35:56 +0000

This is your blog, on slugs…

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:03:10 +0000

It is number 30. I don’t know what that nine is doing there … perhaps the automatic slug was going to be “nuclear_disaster_update_3” but there was already one of those.

Maybe I should start paying more attention to my slugs.

By: Pierce R. Butler

Pierce R. Butler — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:23:43 +0000

URL anomaly (where is Charles Fort when we need him?): is this Nuclear Disaster Update 30 or nuclear_disaster_update_9?

By: Pierce R. Butler

Pierce R. Butler — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:05:41 +0000

… we love the promise of nuclear energy!

Yes indeed: “Too cheap to meter!”

My dog loves that promise also, as it would save him the bother of defending his yard against an intruder!!!1! every month.