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nandakandamanda
As they are discussing nuclear safety in South Korea, the temperatures seem to continue to rise in one reactor vessel and they cannot decide if it is really rising, or if the thermometer is at fault. Sometimes the safety of the planet can come down to such a simple variable as this. Is the corium temperature rising or is the temp gauge bust? With coal-fired power stations an accident will be just that: a localized accident. With nuclear it will not...
Good luck to the conference. Such discussion is vitally necessary for the future of the planet, but they will need to work harder on persuading the populace.
Posted in: Nuclear security summit aims to restore confidence in industry
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nandakandamanda
The onus is surely on Iran to defuse the situation. Iran may say one thing in public, but it takes no superior intelligence to join up the dotted lines. They do not like Israel and they will develop whatever weapon will hold the greatest threat. It is not a question of if, but when. The hatred is not going to change any time soon, neither is the posing and aggro, (and Iranian diplomacy has not yet left kindergarten so no hope there).
If you shout "Yah, Boo, Sucks!" long enough, you will eventually test the patience of even the saintliest person. If you supply increasingly sophisticated military hardware and moral support to those neighbors/neighbours needling Israel, then you become the main backer, like the king-pin drug boss behind the local street-corner dealer. Iran is setting herself up as a bigger and bigger target and seems to make little effort to prevent what is now nearly inevitable. "Why?" ... is the only question in my own mind. Ego? Iraq's mistake again?
Maybe Iran think they are far enough away from the scene to be safe, but it is a dangerous game that Iran is playing, that of baiting Israel. There is already dislike of Israel in the region, but even greater general dislike of Iran and they way they go about things. As in the school playground, uninvolved students will start to egg on the two to fight. The whirlpool gets ever stronger.
I would appeal to Iran not to burn those last bridges. Do not turn your whole country into one huge suicide bomb. Forget Jew against Muslim. Forget Shiite against Sunni. Just "Please", ...from one human being.
Posted in: Fears grow of Israeli attack on Iran
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nandakandamanda
When does a snap become a spell?
Posted in: Death toll from Europe cold snap passes 300
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nandakandamanda
For a second I thought the title said "Asia's coldest elephant".
Yes, if they could take her for a walk in the park on soil and grass at least once week wouldn't that be great!
Posted in: Asia's oldest elephant
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nandakandamanda
No mention of the weakness of European currencies and the strength of JPY...
Posted in: Nippon Sheet Glass to cut 3,500 jobs amid Europe crisis
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nandakandamanda
Nice pic, but rally is nothing to do with FIA WorldTouring Car which takes place on tarmac surfaced tracks/circuits.
Perhaps the article really wants to show Honda getting more involved in motor sports generally? Is there a breath of intention for Honda to work back step by step to taking part in F1 again?
Posted in: Honda to join FIA World Touring Car Championship
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nandakandamanda
There is no obvious side to take in Syria. It has been shown that the conflict is largely tribal, with both sides armed. Not a massacre of unarmed civilians. Nothing to do with democracy.
The Arab states cannot do anything there. If a force intervened how would it keep the two sides from killing each other? Sounds like another Belfast.
The quickest way to end the conflict is for the protestors to go home, and try a different tactic. Even if Assad rsigned, there would be months and years of attrition, as we can see in Egypt... As long as people go out into the streets and turn violent, there will be fighting. Maybe the protestors have gone too far and cannot stop for fear of reprisals later. For this reason they need to push their agenda through, hopefully with the support of the international community. No going back?
The world community does not like to see people killing each other and would like to stop the fighting, but just how exactly is anyone proposing to do this? You can't look at it. You can't ignore it. You can't do anything about it. Should anyone give a push from the outside?
Besides, China and Russia both want to keep Iran friendly, Iran being a huge supporter of Syria, so they will support maintenance of the status quo.
Posted in: Outrage as Russia, China veto U.N. move on Syria
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nandakandamanda
So two bears show up on a driving range...
One says to the other: "It's awful quiet today!"
Posted in: Two bears show up on golf driving range in Saitama
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nandakandamanda
Psychiatric Test. Day One.
Psychiatrist: "Are you just plain nuts?"
Kid: ...
Posted in: Teen held over knife attacks in Saitama, Chiba to get psychiatric test
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nandakandamanda
CrazyJoe, wake up? Erm, sleepwalking perhaps?
Posted in: Two bears show up on golf driving range in Saitama
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nandakandamanda
Well, it's not in a house, no, but it is in the basement of the house/building that houses the reactor, containment vessel and used fuel pool.
Star-viking, zichi simply posed the possibility of quake damage and asked whether it might not be a cause. He didn't make a blanket statement, so no proof should be necessary.
You mention vibration or resonance. Yes, I agree these might be possible, but with thousands of strong aftershocks rocking and rolling the place, why do you discount the idea that quakes might be a contributing factor? Personally I would consider quakes being an obvious primary reason before any vibration or resonance.
TEPCO is mortally afraid of the possibility, even the breath of a rumor, that Fukushima NP might have been damaged by the quake BEFORE the tsunami. The reactors are all earthquake-proof, but a tsunami that large was beyond the realms. Is this an extension of that fear? All of the leaks since the end of January can be accounted for by freezing joints, but with this leak they are maintaining that they cannot find plausible cause. Sabotage?
Posted in: 8.5 tons of radioactive water leak from Fukushima plant
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nandakandamanda
PS I notice you already have two minus marks, but I have not added to them, yet! :8)
Posted in: Prince William in Falklands for 6-week tour of duty
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nandakandamanda
If I wrote: "The Falklands are British!" you'd say I was being nationalistic, one-sided, blindly emotional and unable to negotiate, Sarc321.
So let me just say instead that if oil is brought up, I hope that the UK and Argentina will be able to find an amicable way to share it between them.
Posted in: Prince William in Falklands for 6-week tour of duty
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nandakandamanda
Quote: "The company still legally owns the ship and the passengers own their sunken objects. So any treasure seekers would be breaking the law and subject to arrest—and the looted objects subject to seizure, the Coast Guard said."
Apart from this legal statement as to the owners still owning their possessions, for treasure hunters to take them would be plain thievery.
Unfortunately the old adage, "finders keepers, losers weepers" is taken as some kind of right to steal by people who would not normally think of themselves as thieves.
Posted in: From shipwreck in Italy, a treasure now beckons
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nandakandamanda
Well, I have a 1999 Honda hybrid and it doesn't get what I expect from it. The car has had to change the main batteries twice within 100,000 km... but I have bitten the bullet and paid. I love the car and I think Honda are great. I undertstand that the EPA is always an exaggeration. This woman irritates the hell out of me. I bet she would have found something to complain about whatever make of car she was driving.
Posted in: California woman wins suit over Honda hybrid mileage per gallon
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nandakandamanda
All in denial.
Who will hear the cries of the people? Not the politicians. Not those who have sucked up the billions in aid money. Not the religious fanatics.
The warmth and the light were fun for a few years, but Dark Ages, here we come again! Expect more floods of Afghani refugees, Pakistan.
Posted in: Pakistan denies hidden agenda; Taliban deny talks
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nandakandamanda
What are the sea temps at this time of year? They have done well finding so many so far.
Hope they find many more... good luck, people!
Posted in: Ferry sinks off Papua New Guinea with 350 aboard
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nandakandamanda
She denied it too, so some of that sentence is for perjury?
Posted in: Woman sentenced to 4 1/2 years for breaking babies' legs
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nandakandamanda
The problem is that everyone runs out of gasoline/petrol after a few hours, so goodbye to heating.
Driving in those regions in winter you would need to carry extra jerry cans (metal) of fuel and extra blankets, food water, etc. with your emergency kit.
I have driven up in those parts and it is stunningly beautiful but human habitations are few and far between...
Posted in: Over 200 cars stranded in Aomori snowstorm
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nandakandamanda
Every large aftershock brings the same comments from Tepco. No damage found. This pipe looks as though it could have been pulled out of the joint or sheared off with constant jolting, especially if it was already under stress when first installed.
PS Blair Herron. The Mainichi English report sounds as though it may have been wrongly translated. Stress tests on reactors 1 and 7, not on reactors 1~7. http://mainichi.jp/select/jiken/news/20120202k0000m040080000c.html Quote: 東電は１日、先月に経済産業省原子力安全・保安院へ提出した柏崎刈羽原発１、７号機の安全評価（ストレステスト）
Posted in: 8.5 tons of radioactive water leak from Fukushima plant