Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Ireland: Banking Wreck Much Worse Than Previously Thought
March 30th, 2011Via: BBC: Ireland’s central bank and new government will confirm on Thursday that the hole in the country’s banks is even wider, deeper and darker than seemed to be the case last November, when those bust banks forced the country to go with a begging bowl to the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International […]
Japan: Radiation Certificates Required to Enter Some Hospitals and Shelters
March 30th, 2011Telegraph states that hundreds of people are affected. Via: Mainichi: At the entrance of a sports gymnasium in Fukushima city earlier this month, a doctor wearing a white hat, mask and gloves was seen holding a radiation monitor over the hands of a visiting resident. The doctor then held it over the person’s forehead, abdomen […]
Spanish Ghost Towns
March 29th, 2011Via: Guardian: Sightseers come to Spain for the Alhambra, the Gaudis, the beaches. But Spaniards talk about a new set of landmarks, a kind of tourist anti-attraction. You can find them clustered on the outskirts of big cities and around holiday resorts, in Madrid and Valencia. They are half-completed housing estates, often vast areas of […]
Japanese Government Asks Water Treatment Plants Not to Take in Rainwater Due to Radiation
March 27th, 2011Via: Kyodo: The health ministry has instructed the operator of water purification plants nationwide to temporarily stop taking in rainwater to prevent contamination in tap water following radiation leaks from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, ministry officials said Sunday. While calling on the plants to ensure stable supply of tap water, the Ministry of […]
Radiation in Water at Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 2: Ten Million Times Normal
March 27th, 2011Update: Proof of Partial Meltdown Duh. Via: Deutsche Welle: TEPCO did retract on Sunday a previous announcement that the radiation in the water was 10 million times higher than normal, saying the mistake was due to confusion between readings of iodine and cobalt in the water. The operator did not retract the 1,000 millisieverts figure. […]
Radiation Beyond Legal Limit Found in Mustard Spinach Grown in Tokyo
March 25th, 2011Can anyone point to good information that deals with the health implications of consuming radioactive fallout, as opposed to just being exposed to ionizing radiation? Obviously, these vegetables have not been irradiated directly, so fallout particles must be coming down in the form or dust and/or rain. All the government assurances of don’t worry, be […]
Peak Doomsday Bunkers
March 24th, 2011*chortle* Via: CNN: A devastating earthquake strikes Japan. A massive tsunami kills thousands. Fears of a nuclear meltdown run rampant. Bloodshed and violence escalate in Libya. And U.S. companies selling doomsday bunkers are seeing sales skyrocket anywhere from 20% to 1,000%. Northwest Shelter Systems, which offers shelters ranging in price from $200,000 to $20 million, […]
Pump Truck with Long Boom Headed to Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
March 24th, 2011…usually used for concrete pouring… Via: Xinhua: A Chinese-made pump truck with a long boom will leave Shanghai for Japan Tuesday after the owner of the troubled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant requested it, according the vehicle’s manufacturer. The vehicle with a 62-meter boom is scheduled to be shipped Tuesday morning. It is expected to […]
TOKYO TAP WATER TESTS 2.5 TIMES ABOVE RADIOACTIVE LIMITS FOR INFANTS
March 23rd, 2011Via: Globe and Mail: Tap water in Tokyo tested two times above the limits for radioactive iodine considered safe for infants, officials said Wednesday amid burgeoning concerns about food safety in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant. Levels of radioactive iodine in tap water at a water treatment […]
FUKUSHIMA: 500 MILLISIEVERTS PER HOUR [???] CORRECTED: 500 MICROSIEVERTS PER HOUR
March 23rd, 2011
UPDATE: Corrected: Radiation at 500 Microsieverts/hr at Japan No. 2 Unit *shaking head* Come on guys. Via: Reuters: Agency corrects radiation level to 500 microsieverts per hour, not millisieverts. Corrects to show level was recorded on March 18, not Wednesday; and removes reference to highest level of radiation since crisis began. —End Update— Via: Reuters: […]
