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Persamaan Matematika yang mehasilkan logo Batman

Ada juga persamaan yang menghasilkan logo batman. Sumber artikel:  http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/54506/is-this-batman-equation-for-real

20110413 Temperatures rise at No.4 spent fuel storage pool

Temperatures rise at No.4 spent fuel storage pool The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says the water temperature in the spent fuel storage pool at the No. 4 reactor in the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has risen to about 90 degrees Celsius. It fears the spent fuel rods may be damaged. TEPCO took the temperature on Tuesday using an extending arm on a special vehicle. It found the temperature was much higher than the normal level of under 40 degrees. To cool the fuel, TEPCO sprayed 195 tons of water for 6 hours on Wednesday morning. The company thinks the pool's water level was about 5 meters lower than normal, but 2 meters above the fuel rods. TEPCO believes the water level is likely to rise by about one meter after the water spraying on Wednesday. The company also believes temperatures rose after the loss of the reactor's cooling system. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_35.html TEPCO says high levels of radiation at 84 millisieverts per hour wer...

Fukushima Falling Apart

Fukushima Falling Apart April 12 ( April 13 6:16 am in Japan ) Almost thirty years ago, when I worked in an industrial setting, I came across my first pop off valve. We’d had a call that steam was escaping in an area, and were dispatched to go inspect it. My mentor explained that pop off valves were installed in the system for times when the steam pressure had exceeded the setting, and then it released the pressure in order not to cause damage. It was an interesting concept, one that has carried over into my own life: a visible analogy of the pressure we carry inside us all the time;  the good that comes from releasing that pressure; the danger of not releasing pressure when it exceeds our ability to cope. … It’s been a month since the 9.0 Earthquake, tsunami, and the first of a series of explosions at the Daiichi reactors. Since that time, Japan has received 980 earthquakes and aftershocks: a number so staggering that it is almost incomprehensible. N...

Testimony from Japan: "A Ship with no Captain". Evolving Coverup of a Nuclear Disaster...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WIL20110413&articleId=24302 Earthquake and Nuke Fatigue: “Time For The Rich To Leave Tokyo” It appears there is a cover-up as to the severity of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. We in Japan are being told by the government that there is a plan to monitor food safety to ensure the public will not be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Yet some experts dispute whether there is any such thing as a “safe dose.” Further, the government is not honestly telling the public the extent of the problem or how they propose to resolve it (see this rolling update from a resident living near the Fukushima plant: http://candobetter.net/node/2428 ). Any intelligent layperson who considers the technical aspects of the disaster will be at a loss as to how the plant operators will be able to restore the cooling system, which may be badly damaged, to reactors that themselves may be unrepairable or in various state...

Nuclear Nightmare Getting Worse, Yet Propaganda Continues

Nuclear Nightmare Getting Worse, Yet Propaganda Continues " The troubled nuclear plant… is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are  expected to increase  as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable,” according to a confidential NRC assessment. Mark Sircus, Contributing Writer Activist Post Japan said it is considering expanding the area covered by a compulsory evacuation order, with no immediate end in sight to the world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. At this point we should all sit up and take notice of what is happening and what could all so easily happen. Emergency workers were pumping nitrogen into the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant to prevent further explosions. Now we hear things are getting so hot inside the destroyed reactor buildings that they cannot approach. On April 6, Reuters reported, “The core at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor has melted ...

TEPCO still working on plan to end Japan nuclear crisis

http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE72A0UU20110413?sp=true By Taiga Uranaka and Chisa Fujioka TOKYO (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant said on Wednesday it was still working on a detailed plan to end the country's nuclear crisis a month after it began, as tests showed radiation levels in the sea near the complex had spiked. Engineers moved a step closer to emptying highly radioactive water from one of the six crippled reactors, which would allow them to start repairing the cooling system crucial to regaining control of the reactors. Japan's nuclear safety agency said the latest tests showed radiation nearly doubled last week, to 23 times above legal limits, in the sea off Minamisoma city near the plant. Radiation in Tokyo, 240 km (150 miles) from the plant, had fallen to pre-disaster levels on Tuesday, the science ministry said late on Wednesday. A series of strong aftershocks this week has rattled eastern Japan, slowing the re...

"No risk" from trace radiation in Hawaii milk

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/14435366/no-risk-from-trace-radiation-in-hawaii-milk "No risk" from trace radiation in Hawaii milk Posted: Apr 13, 2011 11:34 AM Updated: Apr 14, 2011 12:47 AM Lynn Nakasone Lynn Nakasone Dean Okimoto Dean Okimoto Connect with us! Sign up for email alerts... Follow us on Twitter... Send us photos & video By Brooks Baehr - bio | email HILO (HawaiiNewsNow) – Got milk? Then you may have radiation from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan … but only a "minute" amount. The Hawaii Department of Health has found trace amounts of radiation in milk from the Big Island. It is the first time food produced in Hawaii has tested positive for radiation from Japan. Experts stress the radiation does not pose a threat to public health. "There should be no concern over the safety of the milk. The milk is perfectly safe at these levels," said Lynn Nakasone, administrator of the Health Department's Environmen...

Another crisis for Fukushima. When will this end?

As if they did not have enough problems, the people heroically struggling to contain the Fukushima nuclear disaster are now facing a new and unprecedented crisis – caused by their own almost superhuman efforts. Millions of gallons of highly radioactive water are accumulating on the site, as a result of drenching the stricken reactors to try to prevent them melting down, as the accident is officially raised to the most serious level available under international standards, a rating only previously awarded to the Chernobyl catastrophe twenty five years ago this month. A lethal lake of some 15 million gallons of the stuff has already built up in the depths of the nuclear complex, and hundreds of thousands more are being added to it every day. It will all have to be made harmless before the site can be declared safe – and that, experts say, will take many years. “There’s nothing like this, on this scale, that we have ever attempted to do before”, Robert Alvarez, a former assistant se...

Radiation risks from Fukushima 'no longer negligible'

Sumber: http://www.euractiv.com/en/health/radiation-risks-fukushima-longer-negligible-news-503947 Radiation risks from Fukushima 'no longer negligible' [fr] Published: 11 April 2011 | Updated: 12 April 2011 Printer-friendly versionSend to friend share The risks associated with iodine-131 contamination in Europe are no longer "negligible," according to CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity. The NGO is advising pregnant women and infants against "risky behaviour," such as consuming fresh milk or vegetables with large leaves. Background After the radioactive cloud emanating from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant reached Europe in late March, CRIIRAD, a French research body on radioactivity, an NGO, said it had detected radioactive iodine-131 in rainwater in south-eastern France. In parallel testing, the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), the national public institution monitoring nuclea...

Fukushima: A Month of Media Disinformation

http://karlgrossman.blogspot.com/2011/04/fukushima-month-of-media-disinformation.html Fukushima: A Month of Media Disinformation Today marks exactly a month since the nuclear power disaster in Japan began. Along with the ongoing discharges of radioactivity from the Fukushima nuclear plant complex, there has been a largely outrageous flow of media coverage. Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News on April 6th asked a good question: “And what about all that water, the many million gallons of it, highly radioactive, dumped in the Pacific Ocean for days on end—and we’ve all been told it will dissipate. But how can this not be harmful?” he queried correspondent Miguel Almaguer. The question might have been good but the response to it, Almaguer’s report, was far from that. He presented a talking head expert, Luca Centurioni of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who said: “No, there is no immediate danger.” (Centurioni’s background, according to his resume posted on the Internet, reflects...

Europeans warned to avoid drinking milk or eating vegetables due to high radiation levels

(NaturalNews) The radiation risk from Fukushima is "no longer negligable," says CRIIRAD, the French research authority on radioactivity. It is now warning expectant mothers and young children to avoid drinking milk or rainwater. They should also avoid certain types of vegetables and cheese due to the dangerously high levels of radiation they may contain thanks to the radioactive fallout spreading across the globe ( http://www.euractiv.com/en/health/r... ). CRIIRAD now says that eating these items qualifies as "risky behavior." And yet, in practically the same sentence, the organization claims there is "absolutely no need" for anyone to take iodine tablets. That's right: There's so much radiation in the food that you probably shouldn't eat it. But all that radiation is so harmless that you don't need to protect yourself from it with iodine. It's amazing how these people think they can have it both ways. The i...

East Fukushima shiitake banned

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110414a3.html East Fukushima shiitake banned By KANAKO TAKAHARA STAFF WRITER Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Wednesday banned the shipment of shiitake raised outdoors in eastern Fukushima Prefecture near the crippled nuclear power plant after radioactive substances exceeding government standard were detected. Subject to the ban are shiitake harvested outdoors on logs in the cities of Date, Soma, Minamisoma, Tamura, Iwaki, and the towns of Shinchi, Kawamata, Namie, Futaba, Okuma, Tomioka, Naraha, Hirono as well as the villages of Iitate, Katsurao and Kawauchi. "Shiitake mushrooms subject to the shipment ban this time are those raised outdoors and those produced indoors did not exceed the standard," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said. "We will lift the ban when the (level of radioactive substances) stays below the standard in a stable manner." According to government regulations, a shipment ban will not be lift...

Radiation surges above 4's fuel pool

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110414a1.html Radiation surges above 4's fuel pool By KANAKO TAKAHARA STAFF WRITER Radiation has risen to high levels above the spent-fuel pool at reactor No. 4 and its temperature is rising, the nuclear safety agency said Wednesday, indicating the fuel rods have been further damaged and are emitting radioactive substances. The radiation level 6 meters above the spent-fuel storage pool at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was measured at 84 millisieverts per hour Tuesday. Normally, it's 0.1 microsievert. The temperature of the pool was 90 degrees, compared with 84 before it caught fire on March 15 in a suspected hydrogen explosion, the agency said. "It's quite an amount," figured Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. Tokyo Electric Power Co. was unsure whether the surge in radiation was being caused by the spent fuel rods or radioactive material leaking from ...

U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant

Source: New York Times United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission . Among the new threats that were cited in the assessment, dated March 26, are the mounting stresses placed on the containment structures as they fill with radioactive cooling water, making them more vulnerable to rupture in one of the aftershocks rattling the site after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11. The document also cites the possibility of explosions inside the containment structures due to the release of hydrogen and oxygen from seawater pumped into the reactors, and offers new details on how semimolten fuel rods and salt buildup are...

For Real Productivity, Less is Truly More

http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/05/for-real-productivity-less-is.html For Real Productivity, Less is Truly More Tony Schwartz When I wrote a post on this site about The Myth of Productivity recently, a number of commentators argued productivity has gone up not because employees are running scared, but rather because companies have finally laid off the slackers who were dragging productivity down. There are surely plenty of low performers who got the ax, but there are also many committed high performers among the millions of people who have lost their jobs over the past two years. There are also many high performing survivors at these companies who are being pushed to work in ways that aren't sustainable. The way we're working isn't working — for employees or for their employers. There is a better way to fuel productivity and high performance. The first key to changing the way we work is recognizing that the value of those you manage isn't generated by the number of h...

The Nuclear Disaster: Alternative v. Corporate Media

Source: [ LINK ] The Nuclear Disaster: Alternative v. Corporate Media The Fukushima disaster could very well lead to an extinction level event. There is no solution to this disaster, which is far larger than Chernobyl. The Pacific Ocean has been poisoned with radiation. Look at the ocean currents - pretty soon the fish will be contaminated and Japan, a net importer of food with a seafood-based diet, will not be able to feed its population non-glowing fish. The radioactive waters will flow to Alaska, British Colombia, Washington and Oregon. Don’t forget that BP, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Trans Ocean and company poisoned the Gulf of Mexico (don’t worry, though, as the US government has purchased much of the toxic fish and seafood from the Gulf to be served to the military, prisoners, and school children). The radiation is already in Vietnam, Russia, China and the Philippines, though these governments all claim it is just trace amounts and no harm will c...