Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
More Drivers Running Out Of Gas
April 23rd, 2011Wow. Some people are in so much denial about gas prices, and not wanting to think about filling up, that they are simply driving until they run out of gas. This is a fantastic lesson in cognitive dissonance. Think about this for a minute. If increasing numbers of people are in denial about their fuel […]
U.S. DOLLAR INDEX: INTRADAY DOWNSIDE BREACH 74.170
April 21st, 201174.101. It’s on.
7 Million Afghans Will Go Hungry Without Aid
April 17th, 2011In other news: Afghanistan: U.S. Spends $20 Billion Per Year for Air Conditioning in Tents Via: Reuters: The United Nations warned on Friday of a looming food aid shortage in Afghanistan that could leave more than 7 million people hungry unless it received urgent cash donations of over $250 million to buy more supplies. Most […]
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 […]
U.S. Meat Widely Contaminated with Drug-Resistant Bacteria
April 16th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: Meat in the U.S. may be widely contaminated with strains of drug-resistant bacteria, researchers reported Friday after testing 136 samples of beef, chicken, pork and turkey purchased at grocery stores. Nearly half of the samples — 47% — contained strains of Staphylococcus aureus, the type of bacteria that most commonly causes […]
Belarus: Central Bank Halts Sales of Gold for Roubles
April 15th, 2011This is what the beast looks like when the mask finally comes off. Via: Reuters: Belarus’ central bank has stopped selling gold to local retail customers for Belarussian roubles, it said on Friday, after demand for precious metals soared due to expectations of a currency devaluation. The bank did not explain its decision. Belarus is […]
Japan: Encasing Reactors Will Be More Difficult Than Chernobyl
April 14th, 2011Via: Reuters: Encasing reactors at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in concrete would present much more of a challenge than Chernobyl, according to an executive of the firm whose pumps are helping cooling efforts there. “In Chernobyl, where a single reactor was encased, 11 trucks were in action for a number of months. In Fukushima we’re […]
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 […]
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 […]
