The Daiichi site looks very "steamy" today, although there is only a 40% chance of precipitation in the weather report and the streets at the Futaba intersection are completely dry.
Fukushima Daiichi September 28, 2016
For readers who think the "steam" is simply fog I recommend they take a look at these screenshots from a week ago taken with the Futaba cam.
September 22, 2016 00:27:
The song"little Boxes" was a protest song written by a quaker named Malvena Edwards in the 60s. It satarized cheap tract houses built with a lot of asbestos at the dawn of the atomic age and continues to a certain extent. It brings to mind atomic reactors like Fukushima that have no priscience of the future. Reactors with fuel pools built a hundred foot above the floors of the plants. It brings to the foreground of humans then and now of a mindset of disposability and unchecked growth for the sake of growth and money.Malveena Edwards highlighted the massive conformity and toxic mindset of then and now.
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Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same
There's the green one and the big one
And the blue one and the yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they work folding boxes
And they came out all the same
And there's doctors, and there's lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
When they're all folding boxes
And they come out all the same
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
The song Little Boxes was based on tract houses built in the 40s 50s and beyond made of cheap materials. Lots of asbestos. It was based on the creations of levitt and sons. The theme in house building is still popular though even with mass homelessness and incarceration. 11 million cycled through us jails and prisons last year. Now we have ticky tacky mcmansions. microhouses and self sufficiency are better steps though. Levitt and Sons found ways to cut costs on the building materials, using sheet rock instead of plaster, and asbestos tiles, which would eventually crumble. They used Colorbestos sheets instead of shingles because they were cheap and easy to come by. It was these practices that may have inspired the use of the phrase "ticky-tacky" in this song.
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Antinunclear rally in Monju Japan calls for nuclear reactors in japan to be shut down. Not just monju
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IAEA ONE THIRD OF THE OCEANS CONTAMINATED BY FUKUSHIMA
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