Wednesday February 15, 2012

nandakandamanda's past comments

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    nandakandamanda

    Feels like a completely different country here in the West of Japan. No excitement, no Mt Fuji eruption, no constant earthquakes... stay safe people!

    Posted in: M6 quake hits eastern Japan; Fukushima nuclear plant stable

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    nandakandamanda

    "Fukushima Plant stable"... er, nothing remains stable in an earthquake.

    Anyway I hardly expect them to start listing every busted pipe whenever one of these large aftershocks strikes. They'll issue the same old 'no damage was reported' bulletin first, and then send the workers in to patch the place up again.

    Posted in: M6 quake hits eastern Japan; Fukushima nuclear plant stable

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    nandakandamanda

    Reported on Yahoo, but taken from the Yomiuri:

    http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20120213-00000878-yom-sci

    Posted in: Fukushima's No. 2 reactor may be reheating

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    nandakandamanda

    Yahoo reported the temperature of 276 and above and this evening said the temps went off the top of the scale.

    Tepco has been measuring the 'resistance' of the hot gauge, but has no plans to check the resistance of the cold gauges, apparently. (Fukushima Diary) So, which is/are broken and which is/are working?

    The translations at Fukushima Diary are not good enough to reflect what the original Japanese is saying. I can get much more meaning from the Japanese than from the strange, stilted and sometimes mistaken English. Better than nothing? Hmmm... No, not always.

    Posted in: Fukushima's No. 2 reactor may be reheating

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    nandakandamanda

    I have read reports today of over 300 degrees and over 400 degrees. Apart from the broken gauge theory, I read in a Q&A with Tepco that there could be a lump of corium stuck to one wall which is not getting the direct trickle of water it was getting before.

    Also, SetagayaObserver, I saw that the Governor of Shizuoka has suggested Hamaoka be dedicated to research into Thorium reaction in place of Uranium. Chugoku Denryoku (Chuden) replied that they know nothing about Thorium and anyway it would be the government's decision to make, not theirs. Interesting article here.

    http://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/shizuoka/20120212/CK2012021202000005.html

    Tepco continue to deny any detection of Xenon gas (which should be given off with re-criticality), which leads them to the conclusion the gauge itself is bust..

    Posted in: Fukushima's No. 2 reactor may be reheating

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    nandakandamanda

    Kobe Gai, you may be right about PPD/PND, but "all the signs"?

    One of the signs, or some of the signs I could agree with... but where do you find all the signs in that article?

    Either way, I hate to think that mother's love is just a wave of hormones and something like the above incident is just the tide going out.

    Posted in: Woman arrested over murder of 5-month-old son in Kobe

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    nandakandamanda

    I guess they are constantly in two minds. They will be believing one scenario but preparing for the other just in case.

    Let's hope they are not just believing the scenario that the thermocouple is malfuctioning because it is easier to deal with.

    Let's hope that common sense prevails there and they have a Plan B.

    Posted in: Fukushima's No. 2 reactor may be reheating

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    nandakandamanda

    So many variables it makes it hard to comment.

    Weed comes in such random strengths, and it also depends on whether the smoker/driver has already experience of a) smoking and b) driving after smoking.

    Having said that, I would never do today what I used to do at college in the US...

    Posted in: Marijuana users twice as likely to cause car crash, studies show

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    nandakandamanda

    Further update. Attempts at cooling are still not working according to the J news. The article above has become true again!

    Temps up to 78 or 79 now, and as zichi says above, when it tops 80 degrees (margin of error 20 degrees +/-) it also steps out of 'cold shutdown', since it may in fact be boiling (there at sea level).

    Posted in: Water temperature rising in No. 2 reactor at Fukushima nuclear plant

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    nandakandamanda

    There's a graph on this page here. http://www.isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/plutonium-watch-tracking-plutonium-inventories/17

    Posted in: Argentina says Britain has nuclear weapons in Falklands

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    nandakandamanda

    Interestingly, massed crowds in peaceful Iran have been shouting "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" for how many years now?

    And remind me how many times such crowds have shouted "Death to Iran!" in which countries exactly? None? Correct.

    Now, who is hostile again?

    Posted in: Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran

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    nandakandamanda

    Double oops!!! Right the first time. Nuts. It depends on which website you use!!!

    Posted in: Argentina says Britain has nuclear weapons in Falklands

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    nandakandamanda

    Sorry. My bad. They are over 1,000 miles away from Argentina.

    Posted in: Argentina says Britain has nuclear weapons in Falklands

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    nandakandamanda

    If the islands are 430 km out in the Atlantic how do they qualify as "South America"?

    Posted in: Argentina says Britain has nuclear weapons in Falklands

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    nandakandamanda

    If she is going to get that close, she should try showing her teeth too.

    Posted in: Getting warm

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    nandakandamanda

    Alec, Iran is mostly of the Shiite persuasion, which is not recognized as true Islam by the Sunnis who control many of the countries around about there. Iran sees herself as the people's champion and would like to go in and undermine other states, reaping status and gratitude in return. Well, that's how she sees it, even if others do not.

    Stormsilver, agreed there are some shocking passages in the Qu'ran, but there are just as many, if not more, that quote Allah speaking clearly and strongly through Muhammad saying that Christian and Jewish true believers must NOT be killed. (As peanut666 says above.) Sadly there are those who would one-sidedly 'interpret' the Qu'ran to justify their own murderous political agenda, above the true word of Allah... their religion is so perfect in every detail that it has shut out even merciful Allah himself.

    Posted in: Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran

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    nandakandamanda

    No-one has an ethnic link to them. Generations of people have lived there though, and it is home to them and their ancestors.

    These islands are not "the last refuge/bastion of the Empire".

    It's just a pretty figure of speech.

    Posted in: Argentina says Britain has nuclear weapons in Falklands

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    nandakandamanda

    Tha article needs updating. The temperatures stopped rising and have since come down.

    Incidentally cameras inside the pool of No.4 indicate less damage than previously thought.

    Small consolation, sure, but there is good news among the bad!

    Posted in: Water temperature rising in No. 2 reactor at Fukushima nuclear plant

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    nandakandamanda

    The 13th fairy Iran should be invited to contribute too!

    Posted in: NATO considers Israel's warship offer

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    nandakandamanda

    Anything that goes pear-shaped in the US will drift over to Europe. Anything bad in Europe will drift over the Asian land mass. Any power plant in China/Korea that goes wrong will send plumes over the Pacific to the US, oh, wait, the whole world will be gradually irradiated.

    Well, like the frog in the pan of heating water, we will probably never notice the gentle increases in cancer rates, deformities, etc.

    Buy our way out of global warming today with... hey, let's use the future!

    Posted in: U.S. approves first new nuclear plants in 3 decades

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