March 2011 - The Automatic Earth

The Fukushima Fallout Files

Mar 162011

March 16, 2011 Posted by Nicole Foss at 12:29 am Primers Comments Off

Detroit Publishing Co. After the Quake 1906 “The burnt out San Francisco Call newspaper building from Grant Avenue”Stoneleigh:We have now seen a series of explosions at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi plant (Fukushima 1), and it is becoming increasingly clear that containment systems have been breached in at least some units. The pervasive consequences of station blackout began with a hydrogen explosion in unit 1, followed by a much larger explosion in unit 3, two explosions at unit 2 and one

How Black is the Japanese Nuclear Swan?

Mar 142011

March 14, 2011 Posted by Nicole Foss at 12:04 am Primers Comments Off

Pillsbury Picture Co. “The Burning of the Call” 1906 The San Francisco Call newspaper building in flames after the April 18, 1906 earthquake Ilargi: You may not be have been aware of it until now, but The Automatic Earth has an in-house full-blown nuclear safety expert. The subject of Stoneleigh’s master thesis at the law faculty of Warwick University in Coventry, England, where she studied International Law in Development, was nuclear safety research. After graduating in 1997, she became a