I've always wondered about the illuminated area of unit 2 I've cropped below. At night there is a bright light blocking the view but during the day one can see a light inside the unit. What could it be?
July 24 13:16
The spot has been there for as long as I can remember
What is known about reactor 2? I know very little about this particular reactor.
At the end of March 2011, Japanese officials had reported they suspected only a ‘partial meltdown’ had occurred in reactor 2,[i] despite earlier March reports of concerns about loss of containment there.[ii] Later in 2012, Tepco reported that unit 2 had been the primary source of radiation releases.[iii]
[i] A. Morse and M. Obe (29 March 2011) ‘At Plant, Toxic Pools Threaten to Spill’, The Wall Street Journal, A12.
[ii] Hayashi and Morse ‘Setback in Reactor Fight.’, The Wall Street Journal, A1.
[iii] ‘TEPCO's Post-Mortem Shows No. 2 Reactor Main Source of Radiation’ (25 May 2012), The Asahi Shimbun, http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201205250053, date accessed 25 May 2012.
I just picked up your most recent book at the library which I had to get via inter library loan from Wyoming though I live in the "highly educated" Boulder County, CO. Over the years I have been able to do quite an interesting study of where I live based on the books they do and do not have. There are other copies in CO but probably checked out--but none in this immediate local. Maybe neither Fukushima nor privatized risk hold much interest around here. I find the academic area in the America rather depressing. Scott Walker would like to make it even more so in WI by eliminating tenure. Thus professors would have to walk the straight and narrow politically or end up teaching in an inner city high school--if lucky. And it would appear that apart from the few like your self most anyway avoid controversial subjects. I think the heads of corporations live in a world so different from what we live in that it induces an entirely different consciousness. Ported about in chauffeured limousines with armed guards; living quarters beyond luxury; bug out places of palatial aspect in New Zealand or the like; largely freed from the laws of the nation; the envy no doubt if they existed of oriental potentates . . . All that would very likely cause these men and a few women to imagine themselves to be gods and to act with divine power. Didn't Lord Blankfein remark that he was doing God's work? Should a man called Lord have to worry about risks? Or for that matter concern himself with the benighted peasants making up most of the planet's population? We have really the Divine Right of CEO's.
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