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Tepco’s Fukushima Live Cam

Can you view it? I am “missing plug-in.” http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/

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Kurashiki 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

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Dysprosium

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...

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Plus, 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...

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Reactor 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...

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Radioactive 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....

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Typhoon Guchol

click to enlarge via Typhoon Guchol : 5 Day Forecast Map | Weather Underground.

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Over 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...

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Surprisingly 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...

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Tanks 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...

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Japan’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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