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About that Radiation
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Since things are settling in at Fukushima for the long haul, I thought that I’d take a moment or two and discuss the nature and effects of radiation. Lots of folks talk about radiation but few outside the industry know much about it. I want to take a moment here to congratulate TEPCO (Tokyo Electric […]
Posted by neonjohn on April 10th, 2011 under Energy, Nuclear | 4 Comments »
Fukushima is a Success
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Fukushima simply worked and is still working. With 3 reactor buildings laying in ruins and a dry spent fuel pit, that may seem like a strange statement to make but bear with me and I’ll back it up. The media likes to refer to what happened at the plant as a disaster. To me it’s […]
Posted by neonjohn on April 10th, 2011 under Energy, Nuclear | Comment now »
Fukushima Update 04/06/2011
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First off, my apologies for being off-line for several days. Sometimes you just hit writer’s block. Stunningly Good Photos Back on March 30th, TEPCO hired an sUAV (small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) company to fly a small radio-controlled and camera equipped model plane over the site. The photos that they have released are stunning. They can […]
Posted by neonjohn on April 6th, 2011 under Energy, Nuclear | 3 Comments »
Fukushima – Of course they found plutonium!
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The headlines have been screaming for the last day or two that plutonium was found on the ground outside the facility. Well duh! Plutonium is everywhere, compliments of ours and Russia’s atmospheric bomb testing. I can go into the woods behind my cabin where the earth hasn’t been disturbed for probably 100 years and find […]
Posted by neonjohn on April 1st, 2011 under Energy, Nuclear | Comment now »