Notices by Bo Jacobs (bojacobs@hcommons.social), page 2

Nuclear reminder:

When you hear discussion of "tactical nuclear weapons," the weapons used to attack #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki fall under our definition of tactical nuclear weapons.

#NuclearWeapons #TacticalNuclearWeapon

"Tai chi may curb Parkinson's disease symptoms and complications for several years"

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-tai-chi-curb-parkinson-disease.html

Built over 4,000 years ago:

"China's ancient water pipe networks show they were a communal effort with no evidence of a centralized state authority"

#China #archaeology #RespectForTheAncestors @histodons

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-ancient-pipe-networks-communal.html

Global warming is shutting down nuclear, not the other way around:

"High river temperatures to limit French nuclear power production"

This is the second summer in a row that French nukes are being taken offline because higher water temperatures make it impossible to cool the reactors and the spent fuel.

#nuclear #NuclearPower #climate #environment @sts

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/high-river-temperatures-limit-french-nuclear-power-production-2023-07-12/

@nellgreenfieldboyce The only thing missing from the story, which is very good, is to include where the spent nuclear fuel is, and what the plan is to "contain" it for millennia. This will far outlive the ship and its design goodies.

@Aglaia89 @RichStein @nellgreenfieldboyce the dream may not be true but they are still selling it to get subsidies and support for SMRs

12 years later

"TEPCO visually confirms melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant"

Human beings still cannot enter the buildings where the 3 full meltdowns occurred. Decommissioning will take more than 100 years.

"A robotic study provided the first visual confirmation that melted nuclear fuel broke through a pressure vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. said March 30.

The inspection by the robot started on March 29. It was the first such study at the No. 1 reactor, one of the three reactors that melted down at the plant following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

More than 90 percent of the nuclear fuel at the No. 1 reactor is believed to have fallen from the pressure vessel.

The robot found a large amount of melted fuel debris under the pressure vessel."

#Fukushima #nuclear #NuclearWaste @sts #NuclearPower #Japan

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14874722

"Foundation in Fukushima nuclear plant reactor likely badly damaged"

This poses ongoing risks from new earthquakes as it will take decades (many) to secure/dismantle this structure.

#Fukushima #nuclear #NuclearPower #corium #Japan

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230404/p2g/00m/0bu/040000c

Normalizing radiation:

"Ministry plans tests on reusing Fukushima soil in Tokyo area"

"The Environment Ministry is eyeing the Tokyo metropolitan area for its first trial runs outside Fukushima Prefecture on reusing soil decontaminated after the 2011 nuclear disaster, The Asahi Shimbun learned on Dec. 6.

Reusing the soil is part of the government’s efforts to reduce that volume before disposal.

Under the experiment in Tokorozawa, decontaminated soil will be reused for lawns, and tests will be conducted to verify changes in radiation doses in the air.

For the trial runs in Tokyo and Ibaraki Prefecture, the soil will be used for parking lots and flower beds.

'We would like to use the experiments to gain public understanding regarding the reuse of the soil' #Environmental Minister Akihiro Nishimura said at a news conference on Dec. 6"

Asahi: https://shrtm.nu/WwMG

#Fukushima #nuclear #nuclearwaste @sts @nuclearhumanities #nuclearpower #Japan

Respect for the ancestors!

"Ancient fish teeth reveal earliest sign of cooking" BBC

"Human beings used fire to cook food hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, an Israeli-led group of researchers has suggested.

They found evidence in the 780,000-year-old remains of a huge carp-like fish discovered in northern Israel.

The scientists noted 'the transition from eating raw food to eating cooked food had dramatic implications for human development and behaviour'.

The previous earliest evidence of cooking dated from about 170,000 BC

https://shrtm.nu/psBx

#histodons #ancestors