Tepco’s Fukushima Live Cam
Can you view it? I am “missing plug-in.” http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/
View ArticleKurashiki refinery complex
Five men are missing here after an undersea tunnel collapsed during construction: http://news.yahoo.com/five-missing-japan-refinery-tunnel-collapse-055445790.html
View ArticleDysprosium
A rare earth metal controlled by China. Japan will try to use less. http://news.yahoo.com/japan-slash-heavy-rare-earth-china-tightens-grip-093552135.html Dysprosium is the rare earth metal for...
View ArticlePlus, they have to be resistant to radioactivity
Floating windmills offshore Japan. The biggest challenge in erecting floating turbines offshore is ensuring the buoyancy mechanisms are stable, and getting fixed lines to the sea floor which can be...
View ArticleReactor 4 demands our attention
Via EX-SKF: #Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Reactor 4 to Get a Cover and a Crane | EXSKF. Which dude said, Hey, let’s put the spent fuel pool on the roof of the reactor building. Are the US reactors like that...
View ArticleRadioactive Bike Baskets
Uh huh. Cobalt-60 radiation detected from Bridgestone bike’s basket by the bike’s owner in Japan. Leads to wider discovery. The baskets were made in China....
View ArticleTyphoon Guchol
click to enlarge via Typhoon Guchol : 5 Day Forecast Map | Weather Underground.
View ArticleOver the Top
First time… Gas tanker the “Ob River” took the cargo aboard at Melkøya, Finnmark County, on 7 November. The ship is now lying outside one of Japan’s major LNG terminals in Japan waiting to unload...
View ArticleSurprisingly High
The number of cyclist fatalities in Japan last year. According to the data, there were 633 fatal bicycle accidents last year, with most occurring in Saitama, Tokyo, Aichi and Osaka prefectures. via...
View ArticleTanks for the Memories
Seems pretty clear at this point. In the future all of our time, energy and material resources will go toward making tanks to store an ever-increasing amount of radioactive wastewater that we have...
View ArticleJapan’s Underground Bicycle Parking Systems
Via Danny Choo: …construction company Giken have come up with a solution which stores hundreds of bicycles underground using a system called Eco Cycle – a robot system which stores bicycles underground...
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