Archive for the 'Energy' Category
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 […]
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.
Emails About Oil
April 11th, 2011WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Once again, please refer to my previous posts that warned about what’s happening now: There’s no good resistance until the $140 zone, where the previous high is. Now, if oil closes the gap, going for the previous high, it will mean […]
General: U.S. May Consider Troops in Libya
April 8th, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: CBS News: The United States may consider sending troops into Libya with a possible international ground force that could aid the rebels, according to the general who led the military mission until NATO took over. Army Gen. Carter Ham also told lawmakers Thursday that added American participation would not be ideal, and […]
Japan: After Latest Earthquake, Multiple Nuclear Plants Have Lost External Power and Are Operating on Emergency Backup Generators
April 7th, 2011Update: Emergency Backup Systems Operating at Nuclear Facilities Via: Forbes: NHK says power cuts are occurring at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Pref., although radiation levels around the plant remain unchanged so far. At 12:23 a.m. the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, an arm of the Japanese government, began holding an emergency press […]
Israel: Oil Shale
April 7th, 2011Via: Energy Tribune: Harold Vinegar, the former chief scientist of Royal Dutch Shell, has devised an ambitious plan that would, if successful, turn Israel into one of the world’s leading oil producers. Now chief scientist for Israel Energy Initiatives (IEI), Vinegar maintains that the 238 sq km Shefla Basin holds the world’s second largest shale […]
Fukushima: Dealing with Highly Radioactive Water Could Take Decades, Cost Tens of Billions of Dollars
April 7th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: For nearly four weeks, Japanese emergency crews have been spraying water on the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, a desperate attempt to avert the calamity of a full meltdown. Now, that improvised solution to one nuclear nightmare is spawning another: what to do with the millions of gallons of water that […]
