TEPCO has released a statement on water spraying operations — apparently they are using a cement spraying pumping truck. I had no idea such a thing existed.
Gravity’s Gone
by | 2011-03-22 | 11 Comments
As Mike Cooley of the Drive-By Truckers sings, “been falling so long it’s like gravity’s gone and I’m floating.” Events in Pakistan remind me of this lyric. On March 2nd, Pakistan’s Minorities Affairs Minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, was gunned down getting into his car, the same fate that befell the Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, on …
FEPC Statement 3/22
by | 2011-03-22 | 3 Comments
Hiroko Tabuchi, David Jolly and Kevin Drew report in the New York Times that the Unit 2 cooling pond “was spewing steam late Tuesday, forcing workers to divert their attention to dousing the reactor building with water.” The FEPC statement yesterday said they saw steam on Monday, but the statement today (full-text below the jump) …
Radiation Doses
by | 2011-03-22 | 20 Comments
I’ve been struggling with how to express the risk from radiation doses without sounding like either a fear-mongering lunatic (“You will die from a slow and painful cancer!”) or some nuclear-industry hack (“Really, it’s no worse than smoking a cigarette in Denver while getting a chest CT scan!”). The key concepts have to do with …
