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@RBeaner We usually don't run the AC until it hits high 90's and only run it in the afternoon when it is too hot to keep the heat pushed out of the house with fans. Part of the need for AC is home construction in the US is made without features that encourage air movement and shading needed to keep a house cool.by lillymunster 5/13/2011 12:21:33 AM
talking of wasting taxpayer's money -did you read this about Sellafield? Sellafield Mox Plant has been beset by problems. Instead of producing 120 tonnes of fuel a year, it has managed just over 13 tonnes in eight years, at a total cost to the taxpayer of £1.34bn – and a further £800m in future running costs expected this decade. www.independent.co.ukby UKVal 5/13/2011 12:24:59 AM
@ukval ahh dear old Sellafield the greatest example of the gullibility of politicians, we pay for researchers for each mp but they seem to hire ones whose only research is the study of company mailshotsby elainekirk 5/13/2011 12:28:14 AM- @Elaine Kirk lol!by UKVal 5/13/2011 12:31:30 AM
Ohio gozaimasu tomodachiby bo 5/13/2011 12:33:28 AM
future generations will hate us.by Edano 5/13/2011 12:33:38 AM- Waygu beef farmers forced to kill their herds www.abc.net.auby lillymunster 5/13/2011 12:34:37 AM
- Hi bo!by lillymunster 5/13/2011 12:34:43 AM
@Bobby1 -perhaps because we observed #3 smoking so much-#3 contains mox-plutonium is beta? Just a hypothesisby anon edited by Markfm 5/13/2011 12:36:26 AM- It is amazing to me that they finally trot out the "full meltdown" phrase and only a few mainstream media outlets even mention it. No story on the BBC, none in the New York Times. The only full blown pieces I have seen are in the UK Telegraph and on ABC national radio in Australia. Have others seen lead articles about the acknowledgment of the full meltdown in major media?by bo 5/13/2011 12:45:40 AM
- @mark they seem longer but I cant see any additionsby elainekirk 5/13/2011 12:46:29 AM
- oh, here in germany it's number 1.by Edano 5/13/2011 12:46:33 AM
- @Edano good to hear.by bo 5/13/2011 12:47:30 AM
@bo not so much in the major media, but there are some others taking note -- Scientific American covered it today: www.scientificamerican.comby Askwhy 5/13/2011 12:47:36 AM- you can look up the empire of GE - then you understand why.by Edano 5/13/2011 12:48:24 AM
Here comes the hard part.
Kan orders slaughter of all livestock in 20-km hot zone newsonjapan.com (with video)by Veenie 5/13/2011 12:50:46 AM- GE Media:
NBC Universal NBC Universal und NBC (Radio & TV)
Telemundo, MSNBC (Joint Venture mit Microsoft)
Court TV (mit Time Warner)
CNBC, Bravo
Television Production
Sports/ Olympic Games
Themenparksby Edano 5/13/2011 12:51:22 AM - Melting of reactor 1 fuel 'no surprise' newsonjapan.com (with video)by Veenie 5/13/2011 12:51:28 AM
- Two. Months. In.
...and the world still looks the other way.by Askwhy 5/13/2011 12:53:25 AM 
@Veenie Certainly not. Telling lines from that SA article:
U.S. nuclear experts said that the company may have to build a concrete wall around the unit because of the breach, and that this could now take years.
"If it is assumed the fuel did melt through the reactor, then the most likely solution is to encapsulate the entire unit. This may include constructing a concrete wall around the unit and building a protective cover over it,"
And if all three are in some approximation of the same state?by RadioGuy 5/13/2011 12:53:43 AM- @bo WSJ and some lesser business focused sites had it today and I think HuffPoby lillymunster 5/13/2011 12:53:46 AM
- Well TEPCO and the GOJ have got to be ecstatic that places like the BBC don't have the word MELTDOWN in huge letters across the front of their site.by bo 5/13/2011 12:54:15 AM
- @lillymunster Piddly glancing blow from HuffPo.by RadioGuy 5/13/2011 12:54:21 AM
@RadioGuy ...then it ends up being a really, really BIG wall and cover.by pj 5/13/2011 12:54:22 AM- @bo Complete silence from the Beeb.by RadioGuy 5/13/2011 12:54:40 AM
- BTW, how does encapsulating solve anything? Given the coastal location and proximity to water, do we really believe they'll be able to completely contain things?by pj 5/13/2011 12:55:02 AM
- @bo when you posted that onion link (yesterday, I think) and it had that pic of a large ICBM or some such, I was nearly in tears thinking of how backwards we are to even consider wielding that power intentionally ever again. Our collective memory is devastatingly short, it seems.by Askwhy 5/13/2011 12:55:52 AM
- @pj They better be thinking of an encapsulation that ultimately includes seawater convection cooling for when the sea rise catches up to that place.by RadioGuy 5/13/2011 12:56:03 AM
- @RadioGuy Scary thought that I hadn't even contemplated.by pj 5/13/2011 12:56:26 AM
- @RadioGuy I am gonna say this and you can delete it.....
The Goverment of Japan is incapable of handling this, their shielding of TEPCO, puts them in a terrible inept unqualified and irresponsible viw in the world.
TEPCO should be forced to pay a third party nuclear Disaster crew and be forbidden to haqve anything further to do with the Daiichi Plant !by Veenie 5/13/2011 12:56:32 AM - @bo -nothing in most of UK media re # melting rods. But I did come across this about anothher Japanese town which wants a nuke plant- makes predictable but depressing reading www.guardian.co.ukby UKVal 5/13/2011 12:57:01 AM
- @Veenie I know. Case in point, I keep seeing Matsumoto referred to as TEPCO's Matsumoto. Isn't he GoJ?by RadioGuy 5/13/2011 12:57:34 AM
- I've done a few more interviews and everyone asks me why the story is getting no coverage.by bo 5/13/2011 12:58:03 AM
- @UKVal Tsk tsk. "Melting rods" How impolite. "The rods are probably not in their original configuration."by RadioGuy 5/13/2011 12:58:56 AM
- @bo I assume you mean RT right ?.....RT has the same lack of recognition as Al Jazeeraby Veenie 5/13/2011 12:59:29 AM
- @radioguy lol! I'll remember to describe them as 'reconfigured rods' in future!by UKVal 5/13/2011 1:01:45 AM
- @UKVal Rod's v. 2.08 Alpha...we just recompiled the source codeby Veenie 5/13/2011 1:03:02 AM
- @Veenie yeah on RT, and also on ABC regional radio in Australia and with a print journalist. They all ask that question.by bo 5/13/2011 1:03:20 AM
- Well, look at the bright side (ouch). There used to be 400 assemblies of rods there. The reconfiguration has reduced that to one. So things are moving in a positive direction.by RadioGuy 5/13/2011 1:03:36 AM
- @RadioGuy hahaha. ouchby bo 5/13/2011 1:04:34 AM
- @ radioguy -yeah 'general direction is downward' -has to be good newsby UKVal 5/13/2011 1:04:38 AM
- @bo You know, i do not know what top do further, i have over 2k friends "riiiiiiight" on FB, no one cares anymore, if they do, they sure are not chiming in.......i retweet also.......i just cannot believe the ignorance but i again blame the GoJ !!by Veenie 5/13/2011 1:05:24 AM
- @RadioGuy Wow, just wowby Veenie 5/13/2011 1:06:02 AM
- @Veenie in terms of communication it affects people more when you talk about the food supply. Remember Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the conditions of immigrant workers in the meat packing industry and only succeeded in changing food safety laws, not work safety laws. He said, I tried to hit America in its heart and ended up hitting it in its stomach.by bo 5/13/2011 1:07:45 AM
- @Veenie Crazy isn't it? What can you do but smack your forehead and groan. No news story here. Boring. I figured today SOME major outlet would cover it. I SEARCHED the NYT site.... just astounding.by RadioGuy 5/13/2011 1:08:35 AM
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