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@lillymunster searching :) my favourite passtimeby elainekirk 8/10/2011 2:30:11 PM- Does anybody remember which company in france tested the fukushima children's urine?
www.areva.comby elainekirk 8/10/2011 3:02:46 PM - Brilliant quote
"“They have an intellectual arrogance about them. They have an internal management culture that is not the best,” he says. “The top brass [at Tepco] only got their hands dirty when their pens leaked.”"
www.fastcompany.comby elainekirk 8/10/2011 3:08:12 PM 
Reading a really interesting article from the late 1980's about Hanford and all the releases of radiation on the public books.google.comby lillymunster 8/10/2011 3:12:11 PM- @elainekirk I think it was done in conjunction with CIIRAD. There is a lab in France that has done work for CIIRAD and Greenpeace. I believe it was that lab but I don't know the nameby lillymunster 8/10/2011 3:13:08 PM
- That fast company article will go nicely with the NYT story from yesterday about the govt. admitting their cover up.by lillymunster 8/10/2011 3:14:36 PM
- @lillymunster I will have a look at the book. It would be interesting to know the name of the labby elainekirk 8/10/2011 3:37:20 PM
- Interesting article about the levels of secrecy and deception at Hanford before and after the war www.hanfordchallenge.orgby lillymunster 8/10/2011 3:53:19 PM
- I got a ton of reading on Hanford done this morning. Also found this National Cancer INst. page. Have not read it yet but they seem to be a bit more objective on the subject than some other US agencies. Page on iodine related cancers www.cancer.govby lillymunster 8/10/2011 4:19:06 PM
Japan rice worries a blow to collective psyche. Japan’s rice harvest is a time of festivities celebrated even by the emperor as farmers reap the rewards of four months of labor in a 2,000-year-old tradition. Not this year, with radiation seeping into the soil.
Farmers growing half of Japan’s rice crop are awaiting the results of tests to see if their produce has been contaminated by radiation from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s wrecked Fukushima atomic plant. Rice, used in almost all Japanese meals and the key ingredient in sake, is being tested before the harvest starts this month. Radiation exceeding safety levels was found in produce including spinach, tea and beef. www.bloomberg.comby Majj 8/10/2011 4:22:56 PM
hi I'm back for a bitby dean 8/10/2011 4:23:17 PM- @ lilly.. that study on Hanford will be huge as it has alot of history attached with it and the Hanford site is massiveby dean 8/10/2011 4:23:44 PM
- @ Majj. so sorry to hear of thatby dean 8/10/2011 4:25:10 PM
- @dean We will not have beautiful news in this blog . The beauty is when will go sleep and remember that we here are doing some thing to help the problem. Is just as it is. The news will get UGLIER by the week. I'm very sorrow also :-(((by Majj 8/10/2011 4:29:03 PM
english.kyodonews.jp
Building Fukushima reactor cover
Handout photo shows a cover under construction around the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture on Aug. 10, 2011. The cover is being installed to prevent further radioactive pollution escaping from the crippled plant. (Photo courtesy of Tokyo Electric Power Co.) (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jpby Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 8/10/2011 4:40:06 PM- Gov't mulls lowering nuclear workers' radiation exposure limit
TOKYO, Aug. 10, Kyodo
english.kyodonews.jpby Edano 8/10/2011 4:43:34 PM - interesting, eh ?by Edano 8/10/2011 4:43:44 PM
english.kyodonews.jp
Hot summer
A signboard shows temperature topping 38 C in the city of Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 10, 2011. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jpby Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 8/10/2011 4:44:58 PM- Circulatory cooling begins at No.1 reactor pool
The operator of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has switched from a water-injection system to a circulatory cooling system at the plant's Number 1 reactor's spent fuel pool.
Tokyo Electric Power Company put into operation the new system for cooling water in the pool for spent fuel rods on Wednesday.
For the first time since the March 11th disaster, all four damaged reactors at the plant are now using circulatory cooling systems and are on track to stable cooling.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 21:49 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jpby Edano 8/10/2011 4:51:10 PM - Hi Dean, yes, seeing how absolutely massive the data and info on Hanford is and how much is still classified. I found enough reports and documents on the human back studies. I found one journal that supposedly had the animal studies. I thought the sheep study on internal radiation and the milk study on cows would be good long term information to get ahold of and supposedly both are declassified.by lillymunster 8/10/2011 5:13:10 PM
- I think I have enough now to start writing on Hanford in relation to the concerns and desired information the people in Japan were asking rockhopper about.by lillymunster 8/10/2011 5:13:46 PM
A new solar-powered electric-vehicle charging station took a bow in Bethesda this morning.
The "Solar Power Pole" was developed by Advanced Technology & Research Corp. (ATR), an engineering and manufacturing firm based in Columbia, MD. It moves as the sun crosses the sky (because of the earth's rotation) to maximize its photovoltaic electricity production.
The 18-foot tall device, with six solar panels capable of generating 1410 watts, is 30-45 percent more efficient than conventional fixed solar arrays, thanks to GPS-based sun-tracking technology, according to the company. The power generated is fed to the grid, and the charger draws from the grid to recharge electric vehicles - so no one's Volt goes hungry just because the sun isn't shining.
weblogs.baltimoresun.comby joniver via I1235.photobucket 8/10/2011 5:20:25 PM- @joniver the question is why we still pay so much for burning fossils.by Edano 8/10/2011 5:22:33 PM
- @Edano Simply because there are massive amounts of money to be made from it. But...by joniver 8/10/2011 5:26:15 PM
- Solar Thermal Technology Adds Another Big Boy In GE
General Electric Co. is the latest industrial behemoth to get into the solar thermal power space, with an up to $40 million investment in eSolar Inc., via its GE Energy business unit, along with a licensing agreement.
“It’s clear that the world’s leading power companies see solar thermal as a critical resource for meeting the world’s growing needs for cost-effective and reliable energy,” wrote Keely Wachs, spokesman for Brightsource Energy, in an email to VentureWire.
With so many big players converging, competition for each utility contract clearly figures to heat up. Wachs says he has no problem with that — the important thing is that when big industrials line up behind solar thermal, the entire industry gets validated in the market’s eyes, which helps companies like Brightsource compete with photovoltaic and other renewable energy technologies.
More: blogs.wsj.comby joniver 8/10/2011 5:26:50 PM - these big players only want to keep us paying for it. it is better to play without them.by Edano 8/10/2011 5:28:59 PM
- @Edano I wonder if workers are getting sick and that is why they are lowering it?by elainekirk 8/10/2011 5:32:45 PM
- It seems odd they would lower the rate as they are struggling to keep workers that are not maxing outby lillymunster 8/10/2011 5:34:49 PM
- i think they are forced to lower it, since there is no emergency anymore. it is "stable".by Edano 8/10/2011 5:36:17 PM
- ah. Doh. I bet they forgot about that.by lillymunster 8/10/2011 5:36:50 PM
- @Edano Yes they do, they want huge solar and wind farms and will fight tooth and nail to keep it centralized instead of providing affordable technology for the average person. They want the meter running.by joniver 8/10/2011 5:39:35 PM
- @joniver and they will slow down the change.by Edano 8/10/2011 5:43:21 PM
- @joniver I talked to my state representative about getting our state law changed so we can have power systems where your excess home generation gets bought by the power company. This is common in lots of states. She said Xcel, the main provider in the state would never let it happen. She would end up run out of office if he tried.by lillymunster 8/10/2011 5:43:59 PM
- ... as they did it in the last decades.by Edano 8/10/2011 5:44:00 PM
- @Edano They'll try to but some things can't be stopped.by joniver 8/10/2011 5:44:51 PM
- @lillymunster this would make me think about who rules the state and what democracy is worth.by Edano 8/10/2011 5:46:04 PM
- @joniver i think they know it can't be stopped, that's why they are going to get more influence.by Edano 8/10/2011 5:47:04 PM
- @Edano @lillymunster What democracy?by joniver 8/10/2011 5:47:32 PM
An incredible crop of solar-powered Supertrees rising at Singapore's Gardens By The Bay, a 101-acre conservatory that will soon blossom with 226,000 plants and flowers from all over the world. Designed by Grant Associates, the 18 Supertrees will serve as towering vertical gardens that collect rainwater, generate solar power, and act as venting ducts for the conservatories. Although the gardens aren't expected to be complete for another full year, construction is moving right along and the Supertrees are truly a magical sight to behold.
More Photos: inhabitat.comby joniver via I1235.photobucket 8/10/2011 5:47:58 PM- Its that illusion they have every 4 years where you get to go vote. :-)by lillymunster 8/10/2011 5:48:05 PM
- @lillymunster No kidding.by joniver 8/10/2011 5:49:00 PM
- I love those super solar trees!by joniver 8/10/2011 5:49:49 PM
- @joniver heart-opening.by Edano 8/10/2011 5:50:41 PM
- They are cool. I have seen many things lately that fly in the face of the idea that renewables are uglyby lillymunster 8/10/2011 5:50:52 PM
- We are only limited by our imagination.by joniver 8/10/2011 5:53:19 PM
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