Shinichi vs TEPCO P2

I had a post on this yesterday, here is some video.  The worker says he wants higher safety standards put in place, but they're already in place, they were violated.  It seems to me that TEPCO didn't realize there would be water when planning the job.  When the worker encountered the water he says he knew that water would be highly radioactive.  Yet he went ahead and completed his tasks anyway.  If he did this on his own, then the fault is his.

When A mrem Is A mg

In an article about some contamination in New York.  The body receives "1 mg a day from natural sources".

Oy vey.

German Nuclear Exit Delivers Environmental & Economic Benefits

According to this article describing two Bulletin Of Atomic Scientists papers.  The first, "From Brokdorf to Fukushima: The long journey to nuclear phase-out", is basically a historical paper by a Princeton researcher.  The second, "The German nuclear exit: Introduction", is by the deputy editor of the Bulletin, which is anti-nuclear power.  It simply describes other papers in the current Bulletin (including the first mentioned here), which of course, are cherry-picked to meet the Bulletin's anti-nuclear agenda.

Tokyo's 2020 Olympic Bid

Downplays Fukushima.

Shinichi vs TEPCO

Worker files complaint against TEPCO.

Speaking Of Dice & Climate Change

See my previous post.  But here's another analogy with James Hansen from last August (prior to Hurricane Sandy):

Hurricane Sandy - Are Humans To Blame?

The inference is as a result of climate change.  But that view is too simplistic.  Climate change is like weighting the dice.  The attributes of climate change make more intense storms more likely.  We'll never be able to say with certainty that a pair of dice weighted slightly for sixes, was the sole cause of throwing sixes on a single throw. One might have thrown sixes on that throw even if the dice were fair.  But compared with fair dice, repeated numbers of throws of weighted dice will have more sixes.