Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Really Steaming in Rain


TEPCO has told us that unit 2 is the hottest. You can really see that when it rains. Unit 2 is the one with the steam streaming upwards (Unit 3 in the background also looks especially steamy):




These reactors are still a threat because of liquefaction at the site coupled with earthquake activity.

The fuel is extraordinarily hot. I hope TEPCO is successful in its efforts to prevent any of these buildings from collapsing.


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  1. I located the Harvard study you must have been referring to regarding CO2 and cognition. I don't trust it--partly because it is from Harvard. There is also the claim now that plants growing in high CO2 levels have less nutrition. Of course. CO2 is a terrorist gas. Global warming, lowered cognition, low nutritional level food, what else? I am very skeptical regarding science since scientists need grant money and grant money comes from gov and big corporations. The corruption of universities has occurred over decades . . . a slow trickle of little compromises. Not cooking just warming a little bit the data! Who will know? Meanwhile this nice grant comes my way. If you are Harvard and David Rockefeller donates 100 million as he did a few years back, you take it and do a small number of adjustments here and there to please the old man. Can a university have a 40 billion dollar endowment and retain its integrity as an intellectual center? Very, very doubtful. Let's see how everyone deals with some cooling you can believe in!!

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    1. I do understand your concerns but have to say that I think funding doesn't so much shape results as it shapes the type of questions that get asked. I know a lot of university scientists. Most are careful and methodical and would never fudge data. I'm not saying it doesn't happen from time to time but rather that its the exception rather than the rule. Again, I think funding impacts scientific research priorities and methodologies, but not so much the actual data generated in university laboratories.

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  2. Thanks for the on the ground report. I know climatologists who had doubts about AGW lost their funding. "Search results for 'noaa temperature fraud'" https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/?s=noaa+temperature+fraud We had a NOOA scientist and his family living next door. He cheated my 9 year old daughter on the time she baby sat his two children. They were terrible neighbors and finally left.

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