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How many lakes are there?
Posted by Greg Laden on October 18, 2014 
How many lakes are there? We don’t actually know. Lakes are often undercounted, or small lakes ignored, in larger scale geophysical surveys. It is hard to count the small lakes, or in some cases, even to define them. A recent study (published in Geophysical Research Letters) examines this question. We want to know how many…
The Ubuntu 14.10 Upgrade: What to do
Posted by Greg Laden on October 4, 2014 
The Ubuntu 14.10 Release October 23, 2014 Ubuntu 14.10 will be released shortly and I know you are chomping at the bit and want to know all about it. There is some important news, for some, and there is some exciting news for others, and there is some boring news, and frankly, some bad news.…
Return to Fukushima
Posted by Greg Laden on August 7, 2014 
Three years after the disaster at Fukushima, science correspondent Miles O’Brien returned to the Daiichi nuclear plant for an exclusive look at the site. Follow Miles on a never-before-seen tour of Daiichi’s sister site, Fukushima Daini, which narrowly avoided a meltdown during the Tohoku earthquake. As the country debates turning its reactors back on, Miles…
UPDATE Chance Typhoon Neoguri Will Hit Nuke Plant Increases?
Posted by Greg Laden on July 7, 2014 
Update: The new forecast track of Neoguri is shown above as well as the location of two nuclear power plants. The forecast track has moved south, and is now in a very good (and here good means bad) position to strike the Sendai nuclear power plant very directly. Keep in mind that this forecast may…
The Fukushima Alternative
Posted by Greg Laden on March 11, 2014 On March 11th, 2011, a large earthquake caused a large tsunami in Japan, and the two historic events wrecked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The power plant had six boiling water reactors of the kind used around the world in many nuclear power plants. Three of the six reactors suffered a meltdown, and containment…
Removing the fuel rods at Fukushima: Video
Posted by Greg Laden on November 22, 2013 
TEPCO is removing some of those famous spent fuel rod assemblies, here’s some video:
Removing the #Fukushima Spent Fuel Rods. Or not.
Posted by Greg Laden on November 15, 2013 
TEPCO was going to start removing the fuel rods from the less-damaged reactor building Numnber 4 over the next few days. Today, it was announced that damage to the fuel rod assemblies, some or most of which predated the tsunami and earthquake, this could not be done. There is now uncertainty as to what is…
Fukushima Update #70: If you can’t measure it … (UPDATED)
Posted by Greg Laden on September 15, 2013 Fukushima Update #70: If you can’t measure it, you can’t analyze it. by Analiese Miller and Greg Laden It has been suggested, by various commenters on the internet, that the problem with Fukushima is not that there is a dangerous radioactive mess there, but rather, that the authorities in charge have decided that exposure to…
Ethanol Falsehood Examined
Posted by Greg Laden on September 11, 2013 
Learning is easy. Getting it right is harder. Expunging falsehoods is hardest, but most rewarding. There is a “meme” (using the definition of a meme as something most people in a certain community think whether it is true or not) that to produce one gallon of Ethanol for fuel you have to use some larger…
News From The Forbidden Zone Is Alarmingly Bad (Fukushima)
Posted by Greg Laden on August 24, 2013 News from Fukushima Update # 69 by Ana Miller and Greg Laden Over the last several weeks we’ve heard repeated, alarming, and generally worsening, news from Fukushima Diachi, the Japanese nuclear power plant that suffered a series of disasters that make The China Syndrome look like a Disney family movie. One question is this: Has…