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Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: 30-05-2012 16:22 Post subject: |
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Nasty stuff,
Fish masquerading as flesh. |
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| BlackRiverFalls I wear a fez now.
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Total posts: 8716 Location: The Attic of Blinky Lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 30-05-2012 17:35 Post subject: |
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| or metal masquerading as fish. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 30-05-2012 19:25 Post subject: |
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| BlackRiverFalls wrote: | | or metal masquerading as fish. |
You're supposed to take the tuna out of the tin before you eat it. |
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| johncbdg1 Great Old One Joined: 25 May 2009 Total posts: 569 Gender: Unknown |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 31-05-2012 11:38 Post subject: |
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| ramonmercado wrote: | | BlackRiverFalls wrote: | | or metal masquerading as fish. |
You're supposed to take the tuna out of the tin before you eat it. |
You can take the tuna out of the tin, but can you take the tin out of the tuna? |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 31-05-2012 15:12 Post subject: |
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When they say contaminated, do they mean just a little, or enough to not worry about?
And how do they know where the radiation is comming from? |
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| Monstrosa Joined: 07 Feb 2007 Total posts: 506 |
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| johncbdg1 Great Old One Joined: 25 May 2009 Total posts: 569 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 03-06-2012 14:22 Post subject: |
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But after all, we all have eating Fukushima many times over.and how many safe-to-eat limits can a human eat in his life time. |
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| George_millett Great Old One Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Total posts: 118 |
| Posted: 05-07-2012 14:16 Post subject: |
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Sticking this here. If some one can find somewhere better to put feel free to move.
| Quote: | Japanese parliament report: Fukushima nuclear crisis was 'man-made'
Tokyo (CNN) -- The nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan was a "man-made disaster" that unfolded as a result of collusion between the facility's operator, regulators and the government, an independent panel said in an unusually frank report Thursday.
The report by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission outlines errors and willful negligence at the plant before the earthquake and tsunami that devastated swaths of northeastern Japan on March 11 last year, and a flawed response in the hours, days and weeks that followed. It also offers recommendations and encourages the nation's parliament to "thoroughly debate and deliberate" the suggestions.
The crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant spewed radiation and displaced tens of thousands of residents from the surrounding area in the worst nuclear accident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine.
Commissioned by the national parliament, the panel's report tellingly blames Japanese culture for the fundamental causes of the disaster.
As well as detailing the specific failings related to the accident, the report describes a Japan in which nuclear power became "an unstoppable force, immune to scrutiny by civil society." |
More at link. |
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| Kondoru Unfeathered Biped Joined: 05 Dec 2003 Total posts: 5788 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 05-07-2012 19:20 Post subject: |
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Id love to know just where this independent panel sits.
(Is it in the same place that my friend who claims that any cloud of steam they see comming out of a factory is a pollutant?)
And what they do for energy.
If they know how to fuel a high tech nation that is lacking in oil...I think we should all hear right now. |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-08-2012 11:53 Post subject: |
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Giant mutant butterflies prepare to fight Godzilla.
| Quote: | 'Severe abnormalities' found in Fukushima butterflies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19245818
By Nick Crumpton
BBC News
The study found that mutation rates were much higher among butterfly collected near Fukushima
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Exposure to radioactive material released into the environment has caused mutations in butterflies found in Japan, a study suggests.
Scientists found an increase in leg, antennae and wing shape mutations among butterflies collected following the 2011 Fukushima accident.
The link between the mutations and the radioactive material was shown by laboratory experiments, they report.
The work has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Two months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in March 2011, a team of Japanese researchers collected 144 adult pale grass blue (Zizeeria maha) butterflies from 10 locations in Japan, including the Fukushima area.
When the accident occurred, the adult butterflies would have been overwintering as larvae.
Unexpected results
By comparing mutations found on the butterflies collected from the different sites, the team found that areas with greater amounts of radiation in the environment were home to butterflies with much smaller wings and irregularly developed eyes.
"It has been believed that insects are very resistant to radiation," said lead researcher Joji Otaki from the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa.
"In that sense, our results were unexpected," he told BBC News.
The Japanese researchers have been studying the species for more than a decade
Prof Otaki's team then bred these butterflies within labs 1,750km (1,090 miles) away from the accident, where artificial radiation could hardly be detected.
It was by breeding these butterflies that they began noticing a suite of abnormalities that hadn't been seen in the previous generation - that collected from Fukushima - such as malformed antennae, which the insects use to explore their environment and seek out mates.
Six months later, they again collected adults from the 10 sites and found that butterflies from the Fukushima area showed a mutation rate more than double that of those found sooner after the accident.
The team concluded that this higher rate of mutation came from eating contaminated food, but also from mutations of the parents' genetic material that was passed on to the next generation, even though these mutations were not evident in the previous generations' adult butterflies.
The team of researchers have been studying that particular species butterfly for more than 10 years.
They were considering using the species as an "environmental indicator" before the Fukushima accident, as previous work had shown it is very sensitive to environmental changes.
"We had reported the real-time field evolution of colour patterns of this butterfly in response to global warming before, and [because] this butterfly is found in artificial environments - such as gardens and public parks - this butterfly can monitor human environments," Prof Otaki said.
But the findings from their new research show that the radionuclides released from the accident were still affecting the development of the animals, even after the residual radiation in the environment had decayed.
"This study is important and overwhelming in its implications for both the human and biological communities living in Fukushima," explained University of South Carolina biologist Tim Mousseau, who studies the impacts of radiation on animals and plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima, but was not involved in this research.
"These observations of mutations and morphological abnormalities can only be explained as having resulted from exposure to radioactive contaminants," Dr Mousseau told BBC News.
The findings from the Japanese team are consistent with previous studies that have indicated birds and butterflies are important tools to investigate the long-term impacts of radioactive contaminants in the environment. |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-08-2012 18:39 Post subject: |
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| ramonmercado wrote: | | Giant mutant butterflies prepare to fight Godzilla. |
It's the tiny singing princess who control them I'm worried about. |
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sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 23-09-2013 13:20 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | The Crisis at Fukushima's Unit 4 Demands a Global Take-Over
We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
There is no excuse for not acting. All the resources our species can muster must be focused on the fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4.
Fukushima’s owner, Tokyo Electric (Tepco), says that within as few as 60 days it may begin trying to remove more than 1300 spent fuel rods from a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air. The pool rests on a badly damaged building that is tilting, sinking and could easily come down in the next earthquake, if not on its own.
Some 400 tons of fuel in that pool could spew out more than 15,000 times as much radiation as was released at Hiroshima.
The one thing certain about this crisis is that Tepco does not have the scientific, engineering or financial resources to handle it. Nor does the Japanese government. The situation demands a coordinated worldwide effort of the best scientists and engineers our species can muster.
Why is this so serious?
We already know that thousands of tons of heavily contaminated water are pouring through the Fukushima site, carrying a devil’s brew of long-lived poisonous isotopes into the Pacific. Tuna irradiated with fallout traceable to Fukushima have already been caught off the coast of California. We can expect far worse.
Tepco continues to pour more water onto the proximate site of three melted reactor cores it must somehow keep cool. Steam plumes indicate fission may still be going on somewhere underground. But nobody knows exactly where those cores actually are.
Much of that irradiated water now sits in roughly a thousand huge but fragile tanks that have been quickly assembled and strewn around the site. Many are already leaking. All could shatter in the next earthquake, releasing thousands of tons of permanent poisons into the Pacific. (Note: A relatively small earthquake struck Fukushima prefecture on Thursday, an indication of the inevitable occurrence of larger future ones in the area.)
The water flowing through the site is also undermining the remnant structures at Fukushima, including the one supporting the fuel pool at Unit Four. |
More at:
http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/the_crisis_at_fukushimas_unit_4_demands_a_global_takeover/ |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 23-09-2013 15:30 Post subject: |
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| Where are all the giant robots when we need them? |
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| Heckler20 The Sockpuppet of
Cthulhu's Prodigal Son Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Total posts: 4702 Location: In the Nostril of The Crawling Chaos Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 23-09-2013 15:34 Post subject: |
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| Pietro_Mercurios wrote: | | Where are all the giant robots when we need them? |
Fighting Godzilla in Tokyo bay before long, based on what was mentioned above. |
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