Archive for the 'Environment' Category
4 Years of Factor e Farm in 4 Minutes
April 25th, 20114 Years of Factor e Farm in 4 Minutes from Open Source Ecology on Vimeo. More: TED: Marcin Jakubowski: Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization opensourceecology.org Research Credit: applecidervinegar
Pesticide Exposure in Pregnancy Linked to Lower IQ in Kids
April 21st, 2011Via: U.S. News and World Report: Three new studies draw a link between prebirth exposure to a class of pesticides widely used on food crops and lower intelligence scores in children. The effect is especially noticeable in kids from a California farming region where they and their mothers were also potentially exposed to pesticides through […]
Fukushima: Fuel Rod Fragments at Bottom of Reactor Vessels
April 16th, 2011Flashback: Arnie Gundersen: How Fukushima’s Fuel Rods Melted and Shattered And now… Via: Japan Times: Melted fuel rod fragments have sunk to the bottoms of three reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant and could theoretically burn through the pressure vessels if emergency water-pumping operations are seriously disrupted, the Atomic Energy Society of Japan […]
Arnie Gundersen: “This is about a thousand times worse than ever anticipated by the nuclear planners.”
April 14th, 2011Fukushima Accident Severity Level Raised to ‘7’: Gundersen Discusses Lack of US Radiation Monitoring Data from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Fukushima: Temperatures Rise in Spent Fuel Storage Pool
April 13th, 2011Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen demonstrates how Fukushima’s fuel rods melted and shattered from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Via: NHK: The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says the water temperature in the spent fuel storage pool at the No. 4 reactor in the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has risen to about 90 degrees Celsius. It […]
Chinese Mining Operations in Australia
April 12th, 2011So it goes… Via: Guardian: China is leasing huge areas of land in Australia to secure a vital source of mineral resources, the latest sign of its acquisitive approach to the commodities trade. No longer satisfied with buying iron ore and coal from Australian mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, China is developing its […]
Japan Raises Nuke Accident Severity Level to 7; Highest
April 11th, 2011Update: Officially Level 7 Via: Kyodo: Japan raised the severity level of the ongoing emergency at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Tuesday from level 5 to the maximum 7 on an international scale, recognizing that the tsunami-caused accident matches the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe in 1986 at Chernobyl. The government’s Nuclear and Industrial […]
Japan: 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake in Fukushima
April 11th, 2011Via: BBC: A powerful earthquake has hit north-east Japan, exactly one month after the devastating earthquake and tsunami. The 7.1-magnitude tremor triggered a brief tsunami warning, and forced workers to evacuate the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The epicentre of the quake was in Fukushima prefecture, and struck at a depth of just 10km (six miles). […]
Arnie Gundersen: How Fukushima’s Fuel Rods Melted and Shattered
April 11th, 2011Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen demonstrates how Fukushima’s fuel rods melted and shattered from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
EPA: New Radiation Highs in Little Rock Milk, Philadelphia Drinking Water
April 10th, 2011Via: Forbes: Milk from Little Rock and drinking water from Philadelphia contained the highest levels of Iodine-131 from Japan yet detected by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to data released by EPA Saturday. The Philadelphia sample is below the EPA’s maximum contaminant level (MCL) for iodine-131, but the Little Rock sample is almost three times […]
