Your daily update on Fukushima, with the full-text below the jump. I have been collecting, thanks to an eagle eyed reader, some of the images of the spent fuel ponds. I will try to get to it later today. I am also including a picture of the type of concrete-pumping truck, manufactured by Putzmeister. (The …
TEPCO Update 3/22
by | 2011-03-23 | 4 Comments
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) …
