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Over the eons, Planet Earth has been profoundly marked by violent collisions, including perhaps five that prompted great extinctions. The playground now known as the Chesapeake Bay was created thirty-five million years ago by an asteroid three to five kilometers…
Another statement from FEPC. My comment: TEPCO is fighting the good fight, continuing to inject seawater into Units 1 and 2. TEPCO has suspended seawater injection on Unit 3 after the explosion. That looks very bad. Remember, the goal now…
Credit: Digital Globe Below is the full text of an IAEA update on Fukushima. Please note that the situation is, unfortunately, worsening by the minute. TEPCO is fighting heroically to stabilize the reactors, but they seem to be losing. I…
Am pleased to be back in the US, safe and sound with my family. (Note to reporters: Stop sounding disappointed; it pisses me off.) The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) — which arranged for my trip —…
Ok, so that earthquake joke I made the other day is no longer funny. Apparently, those quakes were just the warm-up act for the massive 8.9 behemoth that struck us today. I was just exiting the Tokyo subway when it…
Greetings from the land of the earthquake! Yesterday’s visit to Rokkasho was earth-shaking – literally. Well, the earth did shake, although I know correlation is not causation. During lunch at the Rokkasho site, we felt an earthquake. Then another large…
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had his hands full trying to set criteria for nuclear requirements at a time when the training and ethos of the Strategic Air Command called for taking the initiative and winning decisively. McNamara’s braininess, his…
I am going to be traveling through Japan this coming week on a hectic schedule visiting a variety of Japanese facilities including Rokkasho and Japan Steel Works. Posting has been light anyway, but this week I have an excuse.
Irene Jay Liu has a really interesting article in the South China Morning Post on Hong Kong’s role as a transshipment point (subscription only, I am afraid). The whole article is worth reading, but I really got a kick out…
Hello out there! Since Geoffrey Forden stopped blogging, ArmsControlWonk has been a little bit light in the ‘rocket science’ department – so Jeffrey asked me to fill that gap (frequent readers of this blog’s comment section may already have stumbled…
