Category Archives: Nuclear power and radiation

Nuclear Numbskulls.

Posted on July 3, 2012 by wormme

Watching Numb3rs on Netflix.  It’s pretty entertaining, but not of course nowhere near as intelligent as it would have you believe.  Having said that, their “dirty bomb” episode is slightly less inaccurate than other shows’ rad ravings.  They got three … Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear power and radiation, T.V. shows | 2 Comments

The what… how… What’s this I don’t even…

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Edohiguma

I will not say anything, I will not judge. I won’t even remotely add to this. I will just let you all figure out what the heck is going on. So I found this “little” article. I read through it … Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear power and radiation | 15 Comments

Apocalypse Now!

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Edohiguma

I’ve been wanting to translate this article for quite some time. It was posted on March 28 by Prof. Reinhard Zöllner, professor for Japanology at the Bonn university. I’m not a professional translator (especially not for German-English), so there may … Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear power and radiation | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Fukushima lady with more internal exposure than external? Uh-oh.

Posted on April 27, 2011 by wormme

Noticed some hits from freerepublic, checked out the main link-provider, saw another link there to a Fukushima over-exposure. and one of them was exposed to a total of 17.55 millisieverts of radiation. The woman was found to have suffered more internal … Continue reading →

Posted in Atomic Anecdotes, Nuclear power and radiation | 5 Comments

Crisis response and criticality.

Posted on April 2, 2011 by wormme

Sue contributed a link to an informative article about Japan’s Radiation Emergency Medical Assistance Team. My pride requires me to highlight this: “When they went there, they were very much surprised because there was no electricity, no water supply,” They … Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear power and radiation | 8 Comments

More on beta decay.

Posted on March 28, 2011 by wormme

First post on the subject was here. Will try to present these in more bite-sized portions. crosspatch was looking for gamma emitters among the list of isotopes released at Fukushima. For each, wolframalpha answered “mode of decay: beta emission”. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear power and radiation | 23 Comments

“Modes of decay” and gamma rays.

Posted on March 27, 2011 by wormme

In comments, crosspatch was checking out the isotope list wondering where the gamma radiation was coming from. He was putting them in wolframalpha and it was returning “mode of decay: beta” for every one. Let me spend a minute on … Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear power and radiation | 16 Comments

Hazard, alarm, consequence.

Posted on March 26, 2011 by wormme

Deaths by workplace. Summary of what led to yesterday’s radiological injuries: Possibly hazardous work was performed by untrailed personnel.  Hazard extent: unknown. The workers sent to do the work were incapable of determining the hazard.  That hazard was present, in levels vastly beyond the … Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear power and radiation, Philosophy | 40 Comments

“Radiation burns” implied on the radio.

Posted on March 24, 2011 by wormme

Driving in to work just now, some brief report was being made on some (presumably Fukushima Fifty) workers being hospitalized. At least one was said to have burns on his leg. And the guy reporting this said something like, …working … Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear power and radiation | 29 Comments

What works for arsenic doesn’t really work for nuclear weapons.

Posted on March 21, 2011 by wormme

Nuclear acclimization. Before the military tested LSD on personnel, it conducted even more extreme trials in atomic battlefield conditioning. That is, it put soldiers in close-but-survivable proximity to fission bombs…and then exploded the bombs. (Can’t find any record of combined … Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear power and radiation | 10 Comments