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Recently ran across this report on techxplore.com that does a deep dive into the sources of German power production since 1990, based on data from Clean Energy Wire: One year ago, Germany took its last three nuclear power stations offline. When it...
by Irontortoise
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Pictured above is Shiva. Oppenheimer is famously quoted as saying:
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by enhydra lutris
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 09:34 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Oct 27, 2023 at 09:55 PM PDT
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On Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. PT, Japan initiated the release of radioactive water from a nuclear power plant managed by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), more than a decade after the facility sustained catastrophic damage. On March 11, 2011, the...
by MarineChemist
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on Tue Aug 29, 2023 at 03:30 PM PDT
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While the Fukushima NPP suffered its meltdowns, a thread was ongoing in the ‘Physics Forum’ (www.physicsforums.com/...), I participated in those conversations under several handles (several handles were necessary because the people who ran that forum...
by sfojimbo
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on Sat Jul 08, 2023 at 10:03 AM PDT
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By Karl Grossman “The Fukushima Disaster, The Hidden Side of the Story” is a just-released film documentary, a powerful, moving, information-full film that is superbly made. Directed and edited by Philippe Carillo, it is among the strongest ever made...
by KarlHGrossman
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on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 01:41 PM PDT
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Hello DK community. It has come to my attention that our community member Joy Thompson (Joieau) passed away in November 2022 following a heart attack. Joy worked as a radiation monitoring technician at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near...
by MarineChemist
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on Mon Jan 09, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST
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In the latest installment of news from Ukraine, The New York Times reports the Zaporizhzhia�Nuclear Power Complex has experienced new attacks since the initial round reported on Friday. The report ...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Aug 07, 2022 at 06:29 AM PDT
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The purpose of this post is to bring the public up to date on monitoring efforts of a research program into the impact of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on environmental and public health here in North America. This post is...
by MarineChemist
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on Mon Jun 13, 2022 at 10:20 AM PDT
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When the earthquake, followed by the tsunami, hit Fukushima, Japan, in 2011, it caused a nuclear disaster that had the population of 200,000 fleeing to get out. The government evacuated the area ASAP, and most residents were given little time to...
by Tevye
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on Sun Mar 14, 2021 at 03:01 PM PDT
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Welcome to an all day open thread hosted by “Foreign Policy and International Events Group”. Drop by to share links and stories or for commentary. ( or just play peekaboo and say look what I ...
by Charles Jay
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on Thu Mar 11, 2021 at 04:30 AM PST
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The purpose of this post is to draw attention to an upcoming event marking 10 years since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) meltdowns and presenting the results of research into how the disaster has affected ocean health. This post is...
by MarineChemist
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on Mon Mar 01, 2021 at 04:51 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico, ...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Oct 16, 2020 at 08:53 PM PDT
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br> I was originally going to title this Well DUH! in light of something I will discuss later, but that combination of anniversaries up there was simply too good to pass up. I'm writing this on the morning of Super Tuesday, a day which will have a...
by enhydra lutris
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on Wed Mar 11, 2020 at 06:06 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, interceptor7, Magnifico, ...
by side pocket
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on Sun Apr 14, 2019 at 09:00 PM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, interceptor7, Magnifico, ...
by side pocket
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on Mon Mar 11, 2019 at 09:00 PM PDT
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I am writing this post is to bring the public up to date on monitoring efforts of my research program into the impact of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on environmental ...
by MarineChemist
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on Mon Mar 11, 2019 at 05:00 AM PDT
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The purpose of this post is to provide readers with a brief update on our citizen science sampling program that is monitoring seawater concentrations of contamination derived from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) meltdowns. This post is...
by MarineChemist
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on Thu Dec 06, 2018 at 11:34 AM PST
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The purpose of this post is to summarize a recently published, peer-reviewed study that documents levels of Fukushima derived contamination in surface waters of the Pacific Ocean. This post is part of an ongoing series aimed at communicating...
by MarineChemist
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on Fri Oct 26, 2018 at 04:27 PM PDT
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