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Published online 7 September 2011 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2011.525
News: Explainer
Fukushima's reactor cores still too hot to open
Six months after the disaster that caused three meltdowns, efforts to stabilize the Japanese nuclear power plant continue.
Geoff Brumfiel
On 11 March, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Sendai in Japan, knocking out power at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. In the hours and days that followed, three of the plant's six reactors melted down, triggering a series of explosions and fires at the site. Six months later, what progress has been made to stabilize the plant, and what is yet to be done?
What is happening at the site right now?
On any given day, 2,500-3,000 workers are on site. Many are cleaning up radioactive debris scattered by the explosions. Others are installing and operating systems to decontaminate radioactive water. Still others are erecting a shroud over the Unit 1 reactor, to prevent further contamination from the meltdown spreading to the environment. Similar covers may follow at Units 2 and 3, which also melted down (see Video).
Are the reactors stable?
Not entirely, but they are much more stable than they were six months ago. After the earthquake, the three reactors operating at the time shut down, but their uranium fuel continued to decay and release heat. The systems that keep the fuel cool in an emergency stopped working, and in the first hours after the accident the fuel became so hot that it probably melted. The melting is thought to have created a mess at the bottom of the reactors and released hydrogen gas that eventually ignited, causing explosions.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Country Date
USA 22 April 1962
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You Only Move Twice
Original airdate in U.S.: 3-Nov-96
At work, Homer's wearing his Tom Landry hat and coaching his team, but they're quite exhausted from the work he's asking from them. From experience, Homer knows that fatigue requires only one solution: hammocks. He goes straight to his "boss".
Hank: Uh, hi, Homer. What can I do for you?
Homer: Sir, I need to know where I can get some business hammocks.
Hank: Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Hammocks!
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:57 PM Thursday, October 25, 2007
----- Original Message ----
From: Kerry Burgess
To: inspector.general@usdoj.gov
Cc: hotline@dodig.mil; NAVIGHotlines@navy.mil; House Speaker
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:51:54 PM
Subject: October 25, 2007, additional details
To: Office of the Inspector General, Department of Justice
From: Kerry W. Burgess (official United States federal undercover identity, an identity completely compromised by forces hostile to the United States of America)
[ begin examples of evidence of theft of my property and of criminal conspiracy against my identity ]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly
Ugliness is possessed by physical things that are unappealing to the senses, especially visually. It often indicates that something provokes revulsion or horror. The term is commonly used in reference to human appearance. The opposite of ugliness is beauty.
Films in which the word ugly features prominently include Coyote Ugly (based on New York's Coyote Ugly Saloon), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, "the ugly" in this last film referring to Eli Wallach's character.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ugly
threatening trouble or danger: ugly symptoms.
mean; hostile; quarrelsome: an ugly mood; an ugly frame of mind.
(esp. of natural phenomena) unpleasant or dangerous: ugly weather; an ugly sea.
Likely to cause embarrassment or trouble: "Public opinion in both nations could take an ugly turn" (George R. Packard).
Marked by or inclined to anger or bad feelings; disagreeable: an ugly temper; an ugly scene.
Threatening or ominous: ugly black clouds.
From 8/10/1945 (Harriet Miers) to 7/16/1979 is: 33 years, 340 days
'33-34'
The nomination date 10/3/2005 was 59 months, 3 weeks, after 10/12/2000, the date the USS Cole DDG-67 was hit by terrorists. This is another threat from George W. Bush and his racketeering crew that they are going to murder my wife and family unless I turn over control of my identity to them, of which there is tremendous commercial value, and that there is nothing I can do about it.
From 10/12/2000 (USS Cole attacked) to 10/3/2005 is: 59 months, 3 weeks
'59-3'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_miers
Harriet Ellan Miers (born August 10, 1945) is an American lawyer, and former White House Counsel. On January 4, 2007, she submitted her resignation from the position of White House Counsel, effective January 31 .[1]
President George W. Bush nominated her on October 3, 2005 for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. The nomination was met with opposition from conservative groups and others unhappy with her credentials, and on October 27, President Bush withdrew her nomination, saying Miers had asked him to do so.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 4:45 AM Monday, August 01, 2011
I even dreamed about how as Chief Deputy United States Marshal I chased a fugitive into an FBI building.
I had that dream earlier this morning and that was before I had even decided what to report about today. Unlike most days I did not yet even have a target selected for today.
In the dream, the fugitive scaled a very high chain link fence and went into a building. I followed him in that same place and the first place I found myself in was a men's shower room. One guy saw me and as a result of seeing me seemed to say to someone else that was in the bathroom stall he was standing in front of "Just be cool." I left the shower room and was walking around through the building and then I went through a door and found myself in that men's shower room and I wondered why I kept finding myself in there. I left and then I was walking around again and, as in everywhere I had been, there were other people walking around and one person suggested that I was FBI. I cannot recall if I said anything to him but I am left with the sense of a conversation and that other person said he could always tell if a person was FBI, suggesting that I was FBI. Then I was in a large room and I was still looking for the fugitive and the dream seems to have ended about that point. What is confusing is about the parts I was dreaming and the parts I seemed to have just been thinking about at some point. I can visualize standing there and I think I might have been asking questions and eventually I became aware that they all knew I was a Chief Deputy United States Marshal standing there and that I was chasing a fugitive from United States of America federal justice. The room was full of people that I also became aware of that were FBI. There was only one woman I can remember seeing and she was sitting at a desk at a far wall and I think she was asking me if I wanted the building locked down and that was the plan. I think that was when the dream ended. I might have woke up and started thinking about how I then spotted the fugitive in among the crowd of FBI and I thought through a lot of details after that.
While I chose to make the reference because of the dream, I also dreamed about a mining operation that had caused me to endure radiation poisoning. I had been at a meeting in a conference on the ninth floor of an office building. When I left I went down the stairs, and with a dream-like quality to that dream, I understood that I had thought I was on the third floor or so and so I should have taken the elevator. I went on down the stairs though and there was rain falling down the open area of that shaft that runs down the stairwell and at one point I stepped into a deep pool of water that had accumulated at the bottom of one section of stairs. I was wearing high-top United States military boots and after a few minutes I started to notice the the water had been deeper than the top of my boot and there was some water in my boot. I saw myself stop at one point and pour the water out of my right boot. So anyway, to make a long story short, someone unseen was telling me after that about how uranium had accumulated on that building I was in and apparently I had been afflicted with radiation poisoning because of that pool of water I had stepped in from the rain. That unseen person was telling me, as though I was thinking about a past conversation while the dream was going on in my mind, that a mining operation had been in progress next to that building I had been in while that building was under construction. The mining operation had caused one person to also become sick from radiation poisoning and the mine was closed down as a result. But before it was closed down, the mining operation had created a lot of dust that traveled away from the mine and in that dust was uranium. The dust with the uranium in it settled on that building I was in while it was under construction and when the rain started that caused the uranium to accumulate in pools of water such as the deep pool of water I stepped into. The seemed to be no real effect on me though because other scenes happened in my dreams and I was later chasing the fugitive into the FBI building.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 01 August 2011 excerpt ends]
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RED STORM RISING [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Tom Clancy
PRINTING HISTORY
G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover edition / August 1986
Berkley mass-market edition / August 1987
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A methodical man, Ibrahim had planned and memorized every detail of his task over a period of months, but still he had a checklist in his pocket. He unfolded it now and set it next to his hand on the master supervisory control board. Tolkaze looked around at the status displays to orient himself, then paused.
From his back pocket he took his most treasured personal possession, half of his grandfather's Koran, and opened it to a random page. It was a passage in The Chapter of the Spoils. His grandfather having been killed during the futile rebellions against Moscow, his father shamed by helpless subservience to the infidel state, Tolkaze had been seduced by Russian schoolteachers into joining their godless system. Others had trained him as an oil-field engineer to work at the State's most valuable facility in Azerbaijan. Only then had the God of his fathers saved him, through the words of an uncle, an "unregistered" imam who had remained faithful to Allah and safeguarded this tattered fragment of the Koran that had accompanied one of Allah's own warriors. Tolkaze read the passage under his hand:
And when the misbelievers plotted to keep thee prisoner, or kill thee, or drive thee forth, they plotted well; but God plotted, too. And God is the best of plotters.
Tolkaze smiled, certain that it was the final Sign in a plan being executed by hands greater than his own. Serene and confident, he began to fulfill his destiny.
First the gasoline. He closed sixteen control valves - the nearest of them three kilometers away - and opened ten, which rerouted eighty million liters of gasoline to gush out from a bank of truck-loading valves. The gasoline did not ignite at once. The three had left no pyrotechnic devices to explode this first of many disasters. Tolkaze reasoned that if he were truly doing the work of Allah, then his God would surely provide.
And so He did. A small truck driving through the loading yard took a turn too fast, skidded on the splashing fuel, and slid broadside into a utility pole. It only took one spark ... and already more fuel was spilling out into the train yards.
With the master pipeline switches, Tolkaze had a special plan. He rapidly typed in a computer command, thanking Allah that Rasul was so skillful and had not damaged anything important with his rifle. The main pipeline from the nearby production field was two meters across, with many branchlines running to all of the production wells. The oil traveling in those pipes had its own mass and its own momentum supplied by pumping stations in the fields. Ibrahim's commands rapidly opened and closed valves. The pipeline ruptured in a dozen places, and the computer commands left the pumps on. The escaping light crude flowed across the production field, where only one more spark was needed to spread a holocaust before the winter wind, and another break occurred where the oil and gas pipelines crossed together over the river Ob'.
"The greenskins are here!!" Rasul shouted a moment before the quick-response team of KGB border guards stormed up the staircase. A short burst from the Kalashnikov killed the first two, and the rest of the squad stopped cold behind a turn in the staircase as their young sergeant wondered what the hell they had walked into.
