Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Chicago School Bans Lunches Brought from Home; Students Must Eat Cafeteria Food; Exceptions Made for Medical Reasons
April 11th, 2011Napoleon Dynamite from dazedcracker on Vimeo. Via: WREG: At his public school, Little Village Academy on Chicago’s West Side, students are not allowed to pack lunches from home. Unless they have a medical excuse, they must eat the food served in the cafeteria. Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their […]
The Hidden Job Crisis for American Men
April 11th, 2011Recovery. Via: Business Week: The March jobs report released on Apr. 1 seemed like the best in years. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis released a statement noting that the four-month drop in the jobless rate, to 8.8 percent from 9.8 percent, was “its largest decline since 1984.” Behind the headlines, though, statistics on jobs are […]
Iceland: Voters Reject Icesave Payback Referendum
April 11th, 2011I’m sure this situation isn’t going unnoticed in Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Via: CityWire: Britain and the Netherlands plan to sue Iceland for €4 billion (£3.5 billion) paid to Icesave depositors after the country voted against the payment of the money for a second time in a referendum. Almost 60% of Icelanders voted against a […]
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.
Sony, Canon Plants Knocked Out by Aftershock
April 8th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Sony Corp. and Canon Inc. were among manufacturers that shut plants in Japan following a 7.1- magnitude earthquake yesterday, delaying their recovery from last month’s record temblor. Sony, Japan’s largest exporter of consumer electronics, said it suspended operations at two plants in Miyagi prefecture because of power outages caused by last night’s aftershock […]
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 […]
PORTUGAL NEEDS EMERGENCY BAILOUT
April 7th, 2011Via: Washington Post: Portugal asked for a bailout from Europe’s trillion-dollar rescue fund Wednesday, becoming the third European nation in a year to need outside financial help to overcome a crisis driven by high public debt, weak banks and slow growth. The request to the European Commission came as Portuguese officials acknowledged that escalating borrowing […]
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 […]
Fukushima: TEPCO Claims to Have Stopped Leak of Highly Radioactive Water, For Now
April 6th, 2011Your mileage may vary. Via: Bloomberg: Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it stopped highly radioactive water leaking into the sea from a pit near one of the reactors at its stricken nuclear station north of Tokyo, after five days of trying to stem the flow. Related: Fishing Halted in Japan’s Ibaraki After Radioactive Water Contaminates […]
‘U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant’; But It Might Be Worse Than That
April 6th, 2011The New York Times piece below states: …the engineers who prepared the document do not believe that a resumption of criticality is an immediate likelihood, Neil Wilmshurst, vice president of the nuclear sector at the Electric Power Research Institute, said when contacted about the document. “I have seen no data to suggest that there is […]
