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@Pedro Jesus The Gates thing has lots of skeptics, it is being presented heavily as a "green" project. Not sure of the Toshiba reactor.
by lillymunster 11/27/2011 4:36:16 PM

@lillymunster The little information I have had access to suggests that it is a new technology of small reactors that use low-enriched uranium in a ABWR design and it's meant for developing countries as a substitute to coal power plants. I don't know any specifics. They need refuelling only once every 100 years and are easy to decommission.
by Pedro Jesus 11/27/2011 4:43:54 PM

@Pedro Jesus this is the company www.terrapower.com
by lillymunster 11/27/2011 4:46:38 PM

@lillymunster By the way, the new prototype floating wind turbine (the first of its kind) as just been deployed in the Portuguese coast. This is good news.
by Pedro Jesus 11/27/2011 4:46:40 PM

@lillymunster Terrapower, that's the company sponsored by Gates, yes.
by Pedro Jesus 11/27/2011 4:47:21 PM

INfo on Toshiba's research reactor www.world-nuclear-news.org
by lillymunster 11/27/2011 4:48:02 PM

Details on Terrapower's reactor en.wikipedia.org
by lillymunster 11/27/2011 4:49:29 PM

Additional Ikawa borrowings come to light

A former Daio Paper chairman has been found to have borrowed millions of dollars more from accounts belonging to subsidiaries of his family's company.

Tokyo prosecutors suspect that Mototaka Ikawa lost the money in overseas casinos. They are investigating this new aspect of the case.

The prosecutors took Ikawa into custody last Tuesday on suspicion of aggravated breach of trust.

Earlier, they found that the 47-year-old had borrowed over 128 million dollars from 7 subsidiaries between May of last year and September of this year. He spent the money in casinos in Macao and Singapore.

Sources say that the former chairman also borrowed tens of millions more from other subsidiaries where family members sit on the boards of directors.

Ikawa withdraw some 6.8 million dollars from an account of a subsidiary that manages a golf club in Kagawa Prefecture. The money has not been returned.

The newly discovered accounts from which Ikawa withdrew money are not consolidated with those for Daio Paper Corporation.

The prosecutors think the former chairman intentionally borrowed the money from the accounts, thinking they would not be made public.

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by Edano 11/27/2011 5:51:19 PM

@Edano Are you getting any info in Europe on the low radioactive iodine overhead?
by MaryW 11/27/2011 5:56:43 PM

@MaryW no, nothing new about it. case is closed i think.
by Edano 11/27/2011 5:58:11 PM

Fukushiman cat saved www.youtube.com Little-known channel with many abandoned-pet rescues : www.youtube.com
by Ian 11/27/2011 6:01:40 PM

CASTOR: La Hague emitting 1 million curie of Tritium each year. November 27.2011. tekknorg.wordpress.com
by MaryW 11/27/2011 6:03:55 PM

Unbelievable! Radioactive waste dumping in landfills. Groups Critical of Radioactive Waste Disposal Method in Tennessee. November 27.2011. www.commercialappeal.com
by MaryW 11/27/2011 6:24:39 PM

Technicians have given up to move the metal pyramid, which ist blocking the castor transport. The castor transport is over 100 hours (normaly about 14) driving (and standing!), at this moment 5 hours more than last year...
by Puc 11/27/2011 7:58:14 PM

@VesaVA @Puc cleared you out of mod - on autoapprove now
by lillymunster 11/27/2011 7:58:43 PM

@VesaVA That information about the Hungarian release of iodine-131 is not to be trusted. Both sources are not even close to reliable.
by Pedro Jesus 11/27/2011 8:35:03 PM

Lack of firefighting equipment at temporary housing complexes. www.yomiuri.co.jp

Cities resist designation for national decontamination, fearing bad PR www.yomiuri.co.jp
by lillymunster 11/27/2011 9:05:31 PM

NHK series show some alarmingly high sea contamination numbers. It is also much higher the deeper they went. So TEPCO's surface water testing was worthless in that any test they did probably had 1000x more down deeper. ex-skf.blogspot.com
by lillymunster 11/27/2011 9:10:21 PM

the 4 farmers who chained themselves to a metal-concrete pyramid erected on the rails have now decided to end their action. the castor train stands waiting within sight. castorticker.de castorticker.de
by Edano 11/27/2011 9:48:20 PM

hmm what happens if they can't free themselves ?
by Edano 11/27/2011 9:50:47 PM

get out the bolt cutters? what about getting the pyramid moved?
by lillymunster 11/27/2011 9:59:30 PM

www.welt.de it does not seem very big ...
by Edano via Welt.de 11/27/2011 10:04:05 PM

the pyramid weighs 600 kilos according to this article: www.welt.de
by Edano 11/27/2011 10:06:05 PM

„Das ist die dritte Generation von Betonpyramiden“, meint Herbert Waltke von der Bäuerlichen Notgemeinschaft. „Wir haben seit dem letzten Castor-Transport getüftelt.“ Mit einer komplizierten Konstruktion aus Beton und Eisen versuchen die Landwirte, die Polizei auszutricksen.

"This is the third generation of concrete pyramids," says Herbert Waltke of the Peasant Emergency Association. "We have been tinkering since the last Castor transport." With an intricate design of concrete and iron the farmers are trying to fool the police.
by Edano 11/27/2011 10:08:27 PM