So how DID Reactor Vessel water get into the Pacific Ocean? at Dailykos by kbman During normal operations steam flows out the top of the reactor in the main steam line which feeds the turbines. There are several devices involved and a number of turbine stages which use as much of the energy in the …
Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety has the conditions of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1-6（As of 06:00 March 26th, 2011） with labeled graphs. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 …
In a dramatic reversal, China’s State Council, or cabinet, announced Wednesday that it was suspending approval for all new nuclear power plants until the government could issue revised safety rules, in light of the unfolding crisis at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan. I will bet that China will not cancel nuclear reactors. Also note …
Just like information on earthquakes or temperature would be difficult to understand without the Richter or Celsius scales, the INES Scale explains the significance of events from a range of activities, including industrial and medical use of radiation sources, operations at nuclear facilities and transport of radioactive material. Events are classified on the scale at …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Hajimi Motujuku says the blaze erupted early Wednesday in the outer housing of the reactor’s containment vessel. Fire fighters are trying to put out the flames. Japan’s nuclear safety agency also confirmed the fire, whose cause was not immediately known. Deputy Cabinet Secretary for Public Relations, Director of Global Communications …
Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa) – part of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Meti) – said that out of about 100 residents evacuated from Futaba by buses, nine people were found to have been exposed. The pathway of their exposure is currently under investigation. Radiation levels have been monitored across the …
There will be a new conference called the Compass Summit which is an outgrowth of the Techonomy conference which I attended in August of 2010 Compass Summit will take place Oct. 24-26 at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. Compass Summit is created by four of the original founders of Techonomy in an …
Time – It’s not that America’s democracy doesn’t work; it’s that it works only too well. American politics is now hyperresponsive to constituents’ interests. And all those interests are dedicated to preserving the past rather than investing for the future. There are no lobbying groups for the next generation of industries, only for those companies …
China has a new scheme that will: 1. raise wages, focusing especially on rural workers, whose incomes are about 30 percent of what city dwellers earn. The aim is to not only boost consumption but alleviate that growing and problematic wage gap. 2. China will deemphasize the manufacturing sector in favor of the more labor-intensive …
A scanning electron microscopy image of the master and slave lasers integrated onto a silicon substrate to form a miniature tunable laser. © 2010 IOP Singapore A*Star researchers are mastering bandwidth by developing tunable, low-cost laser device Transmitting information as pulses of light through fiber-optic cables is the fastest and highest-bandwidth communications technology that exists …
The Accelerated Precision Mortar Initiative (APMI) has developed GPS guided mortars Current conventional mortar rounds used by the army only have an accuracy of about a 136 meter (446 ft) Circular Area Probable (CEP). This means that 50 percent of rounds will land within 136 m of the target, 43 percent will land between 136 …