These screen shots were taken late this morning and late evening May 7 US Pacific time.
Unfortunately, the second screen shot doesn't capture the waviness of the image. It looks like a heat is emanating in waves from the buildings, as indeed it is
t'is a runaway train, on professionally greased media tracks... but no surprise if they really cared about doing something equal to the threat: radiation biomagnifies, death wish stupidity compounds exponentially - is there time left to stabilize? is stabilization still within the realm of the possible? are we living in a 2 year miracle that far worse hasn't already happened? condemned to watch as the fuse gets shorter... oh but fully grasping & dealing with the fuse is certain death to the Industry, can't go there, best we die instead (hint for future: abandonment of the site is where worst case scenario kicks in
I am a Professor at a large public university. I study political economy and biopolitics (the politics of life). My interests are diverse but are broadly concerned with economic, social and environmental justice.
jBee here: they're losing control of Daiichi, and trying to rationalize it as "easing the crisis...
ReplyDeletehttp://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201305080062
t'is a runaway train, on professionally greased media tracks... but no surprise if they really cared about doing something equal to the threat: radiation biomagnifies, death wish stupidity compounds exponentially - is there time left to stabilize? is stabilization still within the realm of the possible? are we living in a 2 year miracle that far worse hasn't already happened? condemned to watch as the fuse gets shorter... oh but fully grasping & dealing with the fuse is certain death to the Industry, can't go there, best we die instead (hint for future: abandonment of the site is where worst case scenario kicks in
Yes jBee I agree that the site is going to be abandoned inevitably.
ReplyDeleteI believe that unit 4 already burned, at least, much of it did.
That said, I shudder to consider what happens when they can no longer cool the coriums because the site has become too hot to work at...
Slow kill, but inevitable.