...following upon the Japan quake/Tsunami event. This information seems solid. This link is to All Things Nuclear, and is under the shell of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The next link I find valuable is from the blog Disaster Wise, "Comments about technological history, system fractures, and human resilience from James R. Chiles." He seems to take this seriously and responsibly.
The best ongoing coverage seems to be at CNN. On this incident, Fox News seems to be shouting a little too much, and they have at least one producer who is off the reservation. Repeatedly yesterday they led into or ended segments on the nuclear-plant crisis by showing film footage from the burning refinery. Not kosher at all.
I'll say that insomnia sometimes pays: I woke up around 3:00 on Friday morning, unable to sleep. My custom is to turn on the Coast-to-Coast program on local news radio. Already people were calling George Noury with seismic reports about an incident off Japan, and the network news coverage began right after.
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Showing posts with label safety. Show all posts
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Monday, August 17, 2009
Power Plant Accident in Russia
Now viewing the headline of this story on Bloomberg today, "Russian Power Plant Accident Kills 8; 54 Missing," what was your first thought (after, of course, sorrow over the casualties)? That it was another nuclear generation plant that had gone bad? Nope. It was HYDRO. Just thought I'd point that out.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Ike's damages--and the future
Eric Berger has some interesting analysis of absolute and relative costs here:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2008/09/post_53.html
In addition, there is one regional issue that will demand to be addressed once a state of normalcy is restored, and that's the massive loss of power. It's true that Ike was a once-in-a-generation storm, but it seems to me that some measures can be taken to ameliorate the near-perfect annihilation of the electrical grid in southeast Texas. Continued hardening the major transmission lines and critical points and aggressive maintenance of electrical rights of way from overgrowth seem two obvious items that could be put on a prioritized year-to-year progress plan. I know it's ugly when the limbs well-shaped trees are lopped to allow clearance for power lines, but I think a memory of the current hardships endured by many should suffice to procure agreement on a reasonable compromise here.
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2008/09/post_53.html
In addition, there is one regional issue that will demand to be addressed once a state of normalcy is restored, and that's the massive loss of power. It's true that Ike was a once-in-a-generation storm, but it seems to me that some measures can be taken to ameliorate the near-perfect annihilation of the electrical grid in southeast Texas. Continued hardening the major transmission lines and critical points and aggressive maintenance of electrical rights of way from overgrowth seem two obvious items that could be put on a prioritized year-to-year progress plan. I know it's ugly when the limbs well-shaped trees are lopped to allow clearance for power lines, but I think a memory of the current hardships endured by many should suffice to procure agreement on a reasonable compromise here.
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