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@Nancy pool pic sfcitizen.com

TEPCO has already proposed slashing workers’ annual salaries by 20% and those of executives by much more than 20%. www.gulf-times.com First I have heard about the execs getting a pay cut also

@Sin I store it all anyway.

@Peter Melzer I think so. Seems like I've seen it before in a magazine.

This is the view you get if you can ever get an invite to visit San Francisco’s Olympic Club in Union Sqaure.

And if you measure it, you’ll come up with 164 feet, meaning that they have an Olympic Class pool, just like what they have at the University of San Francisco’s Koret Center.

@Nancy I am sure they will make it back in their stock shares when they go up again.

@Scilla I like the walls, but it might take even lomger than the tanks.

SARG?

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Jordanian, Thai doctors to arrive in Fukushima

Doctors from Jordan and Thailand are to work with Japanese doctors in Fukushima to assist evacuees suffering from "economy-class syndrome" and other diseases.

Fukushima Medical University says a 4-member team from Jordan will arrive in Fukushima City on Monday and another from Thailand on May 9th.

The Jordanian team includes a cardiovascular specialist and an ultrasound technician and will stay 3 weeks. Members of the team will focus on examining an increasing number of patients who have problems with their legs due to a prolonged stay at cramped shelters.
The Thai team is scheduled to mainly treat children at shelters for 2 weeks.

The March 11th disaster and ensuing nuclear accident caused a surge in the number of patients in disaster-stricken areas, resulting in a shortage of doctors.

Many countries offered to dispatch doctors, but only one local government has accepted them so far. The reasons given for the hesitation include language barriers and differences in customs. The town of Minami-sanriku in Miyagi Prefecture has accepted doctors from Israel.

Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:34 +0900 (JST) www3.nhk.or.jp

These poor people just keep getting it worse and worse...wonder how much their suicide rate has increased?

@VeenOui. I was just thinking about the guardian spreadsheet. My favorite was dynamite the whole plant so it breaks free, tow it to a safe place in the pacific and sink it. TaDa.

@Sinthia Domina Tourism has to be down. They need to start offering some of those people hotel rooms to stay in and make TEPCo and the govt. pick up the tab. They need some shred of normal, a room with a bed would be a start.

@dean Shucks Dean, thanks. Sometimes I try.

If only it would be possible for some institution to set up at least three monitoring cameras with adequate parallax differentiation, precisely calibrated and timecoded with respect to each other, to gather serial visible light and UV and infrared images for timelapse and 3D analysis purposes, using software similar to that used by the meteorology satellites gathering remote sensing images for the visible light and infrared bands to discern weather conditions....

@alblee The idea of setting up an ongoing set of public and shared imagery would benefit everyone and be possible to set up from a safe distance. It would give TEPCO etc. more visual data and solve their credibility problem. Like I said earlier, the cover up will get them in more trouble than their actions. If they operate in an open honest manner even screws ups are less likely to lead to lawsuits or prosecution.

[Bingo, @Nancy. At an age when a power utility company can read the power consumption of some remote load via satellite telemetry of the watthour meter, I don't think this is such a big deal for them. Granularity of the data set will only depend on the computational resources designated for the purpose, and we all know there is hardly a shortage of that. - Alblee]

All the intellectual and technology resources for the topic thread immediately below (remote imaging of Fukushima ground zero) are existing and mature. It's just a matter of repurposing existing planning/ deployment/processing assets to be applied at the Daiichi scenario. (Sorry, slightly tangential, but a thought just crossed my mind, if Google bigwig types can invest personal money in the direct-to-consumer predictive genetic testing business, then this would be a much more altruistic pro-health thing that will impact benevolently on humankind.)

@alblee Agreed, but right now, THIS is what we've got to work with.

[True. So true. <sigh> - Alblee]
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@you It isn't a matter of a dedicated sat. The existing ones like what digital globe has and some others could provide daily data. There is so much remote imaging capability, someone just has to have the will to put it in place. This situation is not solved in any way and wont be any time soon. That and providing imagery in an automated fashion means less work for the GoJ and TEPCO.

[Bingo x 2, @Nancy! The time for fingerpointing is not now; what's needed is a broad coalition effort to really move us step by step closer to the solution. If there was a time the world really needed to come together and ACT, not just talk and point, it was March 11, noon, GMT+9. - Alblee. And to stay on topic, this would provide credible data to discern actual ground conditions.]
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