It landed in fragments in the Sierra foothills of California.
The meteor probably weighed about 154,300 pounds, said Bill Cooke, a specialist in meteors at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. At the time of disintegration, he said, it probably released energy equivalent to a 5-kiloton explosion. The Hiroshima bomb was 15 kilotons.
"They" the scientists tasked to protect us from such things, knew nothing about this until it hit the atmosphere at 44,000 miles and hour, getting so hot that it didn't burn it vaporized.
These same think tank expert types are the ones telling that nuke can be made safe, that we can "soup up" the clunkers and get even more power out of them, that only a handful of people ever got hurt by radiation from nuke.
The draw of the science, the sexiness of it all on the surface belies the ugliness of the denial that blinds.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/meteor-explosion-california_n_1453333.html
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Nuke Worker Website
Great site.
They have lists of all the plants, pictures, blogs.
http://www.nukeworker.com/news/facility_template.php?facility_news=Kewaunee+Nuclear+Power+Plant+location:WI
People seems to like working at the Kewaunee Plant up in the frozen tundra by Green Bay. Laid back people, organized, and lots of cheap beer at the local pubs, lots of fish fries too.
They have lists of all the plants, pictures, blogs.
http://www.nukeworker.com/news/facility_template.php?facility_news=Kewaunee+Nuclear+Power+Plant+location:WI
People seems to like working at the Kewaunee Plant up in the frozen tundra by Green Bay. Laid back people, organized, and lots of cheap beer at the local pubs, lots of fish fries too.
Limerick how Slick
There once was a Plant named Limerick
Burns Dirty Nuke Rods -- Satan Matchstick
When the Power Did Blow
Start the Lies Status Quo
Pro-Nukers Lie all Day and are Pricks
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120419-714857.html
Burns Dirty Nuke Rods -- Satan Matchstick
When the Power Did Blow
Start the Lies Status Quo
Pro-Nukers Lie all Day and are Pricks
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120419-714857.html
Friday, April 20, 2012
Hilarious response to an industry hired troll
Callme Ish
Commented 23 hours ago in Politics
“Right over 1% of all nukes blow up.
And we keep getting lies
And now we are supposed to believe that "this time its different"
List of 99 accidents right here, serious ones that were "too big to cover"
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/nuke-accidents-civilian-and-military-99.html”
And we keep getting lies
And now we are supposed to believe that "this time its different"
List of 99 accidents right here, serious ones that were "too big to cover"
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/nuke-accidents-civilian-and-military-99.html”
9 hours ago (12:29 PM)
There has NEVER been a US commercial nuclear power plant which has "blown up" that is a fact which you cannot deny. Please stop spreading this obviously false information.. 1 second ago ( 9:50 PM)This comment is pending approval and won't be displayed until it is approved.
Uh, Three Mile Island
Or perhaps....let me do your response for you....
It DID not blow up, it melted down, and not even through containment,
and it only took 20 years to clean up, unlike Fukushima that will take 50 years.
AND there was no immediate health effects either, even though all the flies were killed in a 30 mile radius even on cow farms, but we chalk that up as a net positive effect of nuclear, no flies on us.
US Gov Says Nukes Too Risky
The CBO does financial analysis on the US budget, and clearly states that all nuke is shaky at best. Shaky doesn't stir up warm feelings http://www.cbo.gov/publication/42211
Historical experience suggests that investing in nuclear generating capacity engenders considerable risk. One study found that of the 117 privately owned plants in the United States that were started in the 1960s and 1970s and for which data were available almost all of them experienced significant cost overruns and 48 of them were cancelled. (In its analysis, CBO relied on a credit-ratings-based approach to evaluate the probability of default rather than on the historical experience of the nuclear industry, for which not enough data exist to draw quantitative inferences.)
- It may not be possible to charge borrowers the full cost of a loan guarantee because of the high degree of uncertainty involved. When adverse selection is severe, attempts to offset expected losses with an increase in fees can backfire because the higher fees drive away creditworthy borrowers, making it impossible to provide a loan guarantee that does not involve a subsidy.
Most of the utilities that have undertaken nuclear projects suffered ratings downgrades—sometimes several downgrades—during the construction phase. However, bondholders experienced losses from defaults in only a few instances. Losses for the most part were borne by the projects’ equity holders, the regions’ electricity ratepayers, and the government. Some analysts argue that newer plant designs and changes in the regulatory environment make nuclear investments less risky now, but recent experience abroad suggests that cost overruns and delays are still common phenomena, and concerns remain about an uncertain regulatory environment and changes in demand for electricity.
The study was written by Wendy Kiska and Deborah Lucas of CBO’s Financial Analysis Division.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Dandelions! Bull market!
Our dandelions in our yard in N. Seattle are huge this year! Some look more like chrysanthemums than our typical dandelions. I think the cesium gave them an extra boost in their growth…? But sadly, I've seen double-fused small apples on a young apple tree in our neighbor's yard last Fall, and lots and lots of black spots on leaves and holes in leaves (which I wondered if they were from slugs or bugs, but these weren't on the edges of the leaves but in the middle of the leaves as if the holes were burnt through.)
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Check out these from the Midwest, this is my front yard
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Check out these from the Midwest, this is my front yard
Clunkers Everywhere
The endgame of the Keynesian experiment started around 1980
Lots of infrastructure was built around that time. Money started flowing, taxes started increasing.
Lots of facilities work well for around 30 to 40 years.
All that stuff, the nuke plants, the electrical grid itself is reaching the point of being just too old.
Look at the amazing increase in severe power outages.
Nukers tell me how the power grid is "robust" and how that it could easily handle a Carrington event, and that things can and would be disconnected in time.
What a bunch of hogwash. Do you think that a corporation will shut down their grid pre-emptively on a "maybe" No way. Swing for the fence and if they strike out....well then the public pays the cost.
In the case of nukers, that means a good portion of 450 nuke plants will melt down on a massive grid failure. And that will be the end. The Mad Max days won't even last long, probably not even 6 months.
Review the Carrington here
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/carrington-event-and-astronomy.html
Lots of infrastructure was built around that time. Money started flowing, taxes started increasing.
Lots of facilities work well for around 30 to 40 years.
All that stuff, the nuke plants, the electrical grid itself is reaching the point of being just too old.
Look at the amazing increase in severe power outages.
What a bunch of hogwash. Do you think that a corporation will shut down their grid pre-emptively on a "maybe" No way. Swing for the fence and if they strike out....well then the public pays the cost.
In the case of nukers, that means a good portion of 450 nuke plants will melt down on a massive grid failure. And that will be the end. The Mad Max days won't even last long, probably not even 6 months.
Review the Carrington here
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/carrington-event-and-astronomy.html
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