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 May 11, 2011  Posted by at 1:59 am Earth, Primers Comments Off on Welcome to The Atomic Village
Welcome to The Atomic Village

Ansel Adams Nurse Hamaguchi 1943 “Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi at the Manzanar Relocation Center, California” Stoneleigh: Welcome to The Atomic Village “Denko-chan (でんこちゃん), whose name comes from the “den” of electric power (電力, denryoku), the “ko” (子, child) in which female names so often end, trapping their bearers in a state of eternal childhood, and the generally female diminutive suffix “chan”, can be found everywhere in TEPCO propaganda. Here she is, with finger characteristically a-wagging, admonishing us to “Take care of

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 May 3, 2011  Posted by at 1:00 am Primers Comments Off on Fukushima: Fallacies, Fallout, Fundamentals and Fear
Fukushima: Fallacies, Fallout, Fundamentals and Fear

Detroit Publishing Co. Maxim Vixen 1900 “U.S.S. Vixen, Maxim machine gun and gunner Smith, who fired 400 consecutive shots at Battle of Santiago de Cuba, July 3, 1898” Stoneleigh: It will be a long time before we have a complete picture of the unfolding nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima, and much longer before the scale of the impacts can truly be understood. Misinformation and disinformation abound in an emotive and exceptionally polarized debate over the nuclear power industry. Teasing apart fact

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