January 26, 2009
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In related news, check out this excellent article on the safety systems put into American nuclear weapons.
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I don't think this really belongs with the others.
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There was a mefi post some time ago on criticality accidents that got me researching the effects of radiation exposure, leading to this handy table which happened to link to a scary story about a stray piece of radioactive material, which kind of makes me want to carry one of these monitors around, especially since I live less than 100mi downwind of a certain nuclear reactor. *gets back to work*
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Now the plutonium cloud spreading from the Fukushima disaster is spreading to dump on the United States from which the generally banned dirty fuel reactor originated. I am so sick of the irony, but there it is like the wart on the nose of the global economic face. And the utterly corrupted mass media doesn't seem to care.
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More in this interview on Democracy Today.
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Looks like it's time to deploy that giant anti-nuke shield you all paid for back in the 70's. Oh, wait...