An hour later a very large 7.9 earthquake shook Ndoi Island in Fiji.
Fiji and Indonesia have since been shook with earthquakes, with one rated a 6.3, located 6km NE of Sembalunlawang, Indonesia and one rated 6.7, located 283km S of Sigave Wallis and Futuna, and yet another rated 6.9, located 4k S of Belanting Indonesia.
I wish I had a visual representation to post here but I do not.
Perhaps it is enough to say that the South Pacific area is shaking quite a bit more than usual.
It is in the context of this wildly active earth upon which we live that I offer you screenshots of Fukushima Daiichi from today.
The plant looks extraordinarily steamy. The temperature at the time these screenshots were taken was
75F, with precipitation at 10% and humidity at 89%.
The increased steaminess has been building over the last week or so.
Japan is hardly alone in facing aging nuclear reactors that are vulnerable to earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons.
A recent editorial in The Los Angeles Times described San Onofre nuclear power plant just west of Interstate-5 (in the heart of Southern California's main transportation channel) as a "Fukushima waiting to happen" because of the volume of vulnerable radioactive waste buried and stored at the aging site:
Chappel, Steve (2018, August 15). The San Onofre nuclear plant is a 'Fukushima waiting to happen'. The Los Angeles Times. Available,Why are we unable to address our most significant catastrophic risks engineered into human infrastructures? The late and great German sociologist Ulrich Beck offered one account using Fukushima Daiichi as an example
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-chapple-san-onofre-20180815-story.html
“... We have a system of organized irresponsibility: Nobody really is responsible for those consequences. We have a system of organized irresponsibility, and this system has to be changed.”http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201107060307.html
Beck observes that the denial of responsibility—the system of organized irresponsibility—requires the populace and the state to assume costs of disasters. In this important sense, Beck points out, “this is a contradiction to capitalism and the market economy. We have the same discussion actually in relation to the banking system; it's quite similar. Actually, the banks should take care of possible crises, and maybe they should have an insurance principle as well. But they don't, so actually the state has to take it. This is socialism; this is state socialism.”
The minining companies and nuclear companies, abandon nuclear waste dumps, and sites close to population centers. They will not clean them up. There is no safe way to store most, nuclear waste. Thay keep making it. They keep mining it. It is everywhere in the northern hemisphere now. When there are reactor catastrophes, it is spread everywhere. It adds more, to the underlying messes. It is the most poisonous shit in the universe. It is everywhere. In water. In dumps. In hospitals. In the air. In the food. It is reaching a critical point. Humans are so stupid.
ReplyDeleteThere are 5 opened reactors, in Japan, that are very vulnerable to earthquake catastrophe.
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DeleteThe Coming Green Wave This silent majority will no longer stand by as the Trump administration tries to destroy a century of bipartisan love of the land. NYT, By Timothy Egan, Aug. 17, 2018
If emotions were water, and you took all the heartbreak felt by the millions who followed the plight of a starving orca whale grieving over her dead calf, you’d have a river the size of the mighty Columbia.
If anger were a volcano, and you let loose all the rage felt by people over the daily assaults on public land by the Trump administration, you’d have an eruption with the fury of Mount St. Helens.
And if just one unorganized voting segment, the 60 million bird-watchers of America, sent a unified political message this fall, you’d have a political block with more than 10 times the membership of the National Rifle Association.
A Green Wave is coming this November, the pent-up force of the most overlooked constituency in America. These independents, Teddy Roosevelt Republicans and Democrats on the sideline have been largely silent as the Trump administration has tried to destroy a century of bipartisan love of the land.
But no more. Politics, like Newton’s third law of physics, is about action and reaction. While President Trump tries to prop up the dying and dirty coal industry with taxpayer subsidies, the outdoor recreation industry has been roaring along. It is a $374-billion-a-year economy, by the government’s own calculation, and more than twice that size by private estimates.
That’s more than mining, oil, gas and logging combined. And yet, the centerpiece of a clean and growing industry is under attack by a president with a robber baron view of the natural world.
I write from the smoke-choked West, where the air quality in major cities has been worse than Beijing this month. While Trump spends his days comparing women to dogs, and tweets nonsense about rivers flowing to the sea, the biggest wildfire in California history blazes away.
After the four warmest years ever recorded, scientists have now warned that the next five will be “anomalously warm.” But Trump doesn’t even understand time zones, let alone atmospheric upheaval.
In the face of these life-altering changes, Trump is drafting rules to make it easier for major polluters to drive up the earth’s temperature. While the orcas of Puget Sound are starving, Trump is trying to weaken the law that protects endangered species. And while lovers of the outdoors break visitation records at national parks and forests, Trump is removing land from protection.
This is not green goo-goo or fantasy projection. You can see and feel the energy in places ignored by the national political press.
“If D.C. comes for our public land, water or monuments again, they’ll have to come through me,” says Xochitl Torres Small, a Democrat with an even chance of taking a longtime Republican seat in New Mexico, in an ad showing off her political chops.
……… Only one in 10 voters think Americans should use more coal. And more than 80 percent of millennials, soon to be the largest cohort of voters (if they ever turn out), believe there’s solid evidence behind these freakish manifestations of an overheated earth.
Science, a huge majority believes, is not a conspiracy. And yet, this huge majority has been ignored. These people are now ready to “put aside our differences and stand together for the places we love,” as Tawney and Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, wrote in The Denver Post
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Top GOP lawmaker calls for cutting Medicare and Social Security to reduce deficit after GOP tax cut (link: http://hill.cm/10j7dhs) hill.cm/10j7dhs
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I paid into my #Medicare they damn well better leave it the hell alone. Stop giving tax breaks to themselves and their rich buddies
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Vote in democrats only way to guarantee medicare will remain
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Before one penny of Medicare and Social Security is cut, I demand that Trump stop playing golf and use those millions of dollars to keep our safety net intact.
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Morally and fiscally bankrupt.
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There they are, the faux-deficit hawks awakening from their willful slumber. They happily blew-up the deficit, now predictably want to bludgeon society's vulnerable to balance the books. What excellent public servants.
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Here it comes-"we don't want anyone to live over the age of 50 because it would cost too much money. Kill yourselves now and avoid bankrupting the US Treasury. The 1% will be grateful for your elimination."
"Hello, White House? Pruitt here. What's the secret code for the Cabinet-level discounts on Trump Hotel mattresses? I seem to have lost it."
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Very Good video demonstration of alpha beta scintillator and capture gamma spectrometer By Dr. BUSBY .RadioactIVE DUST in an airconditioner filter from tokyo apt from 2012 by
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HEY CECALLI:There are at least twice as many or 3 times as many serious antinuc posters at #fukushima now. That is because of you and, willows efforts. GOOD ON YOU! keep on truckin!!!
DeleteTRUMP ATYEMPT TO GET RID OF ALL ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ESPECILLAY REGARDING RADIONUCLIDES RADIOACTIVITY
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I oppose this proposed rule which is a tacit attempt to do away with environmental regulation. We need more protection from pollution, not less. Clean air & water are even more important since the FDA permits more radiation in Americans’ food than any other country. Increased oil & gas production-injection wells also make regulation more important than ever, as does the problem of nuclear reactor dismantlement-nuclear waste.
The EPA news release for the proposed rule references Ed Calabrese who has long worked as a hired gun, masquerading as a scientist, for Exxon, Big Tobacco, as well as the military. Initially, it was unknown if chemicals or radioactive material (polonium) in cigarettes caused cancer – it is both. So, he begin pushing the lie that some toxic chemicals and radiation is healthy (aka hormesis). His latest version pretends that BEIR hasn’t updated anything since the 1950s. This is false. The most recent BEIR even allowed Calabrese to present his hormesis case, but he failed to convince experts.
Dr. Weatherwax, Ph.D. in biochemistry, explained to Congress in Sept 2016 that despite 18 years of research & over a quarter of a billion dollars of funding that the DOE Office of Science has devoted to the Low Dose Research Program: “To date, there are no studies that have been able to establish with sufficient certainty a threshold level of radiation below which a risk of cancer is zero, despite decades of research in this area….the LNT model continues to be the accepted, albeit conservative, standard on which current radiation worker protection standards are based. Current National and International bodies (National Council on Radiation Protection and. Measurements, NCRP; International Commission on Radiological Protection, (ICRP) continue to recommend the use of the LNT”
The large earth quake on the weekend was 8.2 and very deep (about 350 miles); the effects of these earthquakes work out over up to ten days. The best source for earthquake information is Dutchsinse (YouTube) who unique among the experts has an excellent record for acurately prediciting earthquakes.
ReplyDelete"Global Earthquake Forecast -- Week of unrest possible -- MEGAQUAKE movement BE PREPARED" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU27GIT1v1Y
I believe we are in for many earthquakes as they seem to accompany Grand Solar Minimums when the earth's magnetosphere is weak.
"An enormous 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean close to Fiji and Tonga on Sunday, but was too deep to cause any significant damage." This is a false statement; the enormous energy released is transmitted along the fault lines of the plate. And the numerous recent earthquakes can be related to the 8.2 deep quake. We have a lot of quasi science.
ReplyDeleteVery Large M7.3 Earthquake strikes Caribbean / Venezuela
DeleteDutchsinse's predictions are coming true remarkably.
DeleteMeanwhile we struggle, under the ongoing radionuclide apocolypse, of our planet. We struggle, against the monsterous power of the nuclearists. It includes the blatant pronuclear shills . There are the pronuclearist monster’s, allys: THE NUCLEAR APOLOGISTS that say they care and use Fukushima as A political Statement, Though they could care less
ReplyDeleteTHEIR NUCLEAR APOLOGIST GAME INCLUDES:
1. PROTUMP The worst nuclearist monster in history. Is proAbe. Abe is another nuclearist Criminal and monster who used thugs in his last election to win. Abe is continuing with the olympics. He is shipping radioactive food all over the world. Abe continues to open the most dangerous nuclear plants, in the the most earthquake prone country on the planet. Trump wholeheartedly supports Abe.
2. RABID Climate-denial
As hurricanes, rising sea levels, earhquakes combine to insure another fukushima earthquake soon, they say it is ok to keep a few reactors open, make more nuclear waste, make more nuclear weapons, and haul deadly nuclear waste anywhere. on roads, railways, in jets. The TRUMP/KOCH/NUCLEAR APOLOGISTS SAY IT IS OK TO PUT NUCLEAR WASTE anywhere from here to kingdom come.
3. THEY ARE PRONUCLEAR WEAPON APOLOGISTS; THEY ARE AFTER ALL protump apologists. They think the Enemies, that lurk everywhere, should be obliterated with nuclear explosions.
4. IT IS OK TO HAVE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS OPEN Even in Japan. Its Ok to deragulate supervIsion of old dangerous nuclear reactors, cause Trump says so. MAYBE THEY MIGHT CLOSE later the Nuclear APologists say. THEY NEVER DO CLEAN UP NUCLEAR WASTE BECAUSE, IT WOULD CAUSE CERTAIN PEOPLE TO LOSE MONEY. IF THEY DID, NO ONE WOULD CLEAN UP THE MESS BECAUSE IT IS SO UNPROFITABLE. TRUMP DOES NOT BELIEVE THE MESSES HAVE TO BE CLEANED UP
The nuclear appologists, are pronuclear weapon-nuclear, appologists-protrump, devils..
They constantly gaslight the public with ever-changing conspiracy and ever-changing , alternative reality narratives.
They are the allys of the nuclearist monsters
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ReplyDeleteThe U.S. Is building a drone base in West Africa that will cost more than a quarter billion dollars by 2024. My latest
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The U.S. Is Building a Drone Base in Niger That Will Cost More Than $280 Million by 2024
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I like Trump because he stood up & said he was going to shorten my life, then went ahead & did it. Most politicians might hedge. But not Trump. Promise made, promise kept. You gotta admire that."
ReplyDeleteA power plant in Cheshire, Ohio. Worldwide, outdoor air pollution reduces the average life span at birth by one year.
Air Pollution Is Shortening Your Life. Here’s How Much.
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https://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/stories/creationists-and-conspiracy-theorists-make-same-cognitive-error-study-finds
ReplyDeleteFateful reasoning, such as the belief that certain events are "meant to be" or that "everything happens for a reason," is extremely common across humanity. This kind of thinking, called teleological thinking, probably has a number of psychological benefits, which speaks to its allure as a compelling cognitive bias. It has even been a feature in the thinking of some of the most influential philosophers in history, from Plato and Aristotle to Georg Hegel.
Unfortunately, teleological thinking can lead to deeply fallacious and pathological thinking as well. In fact, a new study out of the University of Fribourg has found that a basic cognitive error at the heart of teleological thinking is also correlated with two types of other forms of popular but fallacious belief systems: creationism and conspiracy theory, reports MedicalXpress.
"We find a previously unnoticed common thread between believing in creationism and believing in conspiracy theories," explained researcher Sebastian Dieguez. "Although very different at first glance, both these belief systems are associated with a single and powerful cognitive bias named teleological thinking, which entails the perception of final causes and overriding purpose in naturally occurring events and entities."
While it might seem innocuous enough to hold to certain beliefs like "everything happens for a reason," researchers found that this kind of thinking leaves people prone to some grossly erroneous beliefs, such as the idea that "the sun rises in order to give us light" or "the purpose of bees is to ensure pollination." Researchers note that such thinkers are often ill-equipped to comprehend basic scientific facts.