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This is a modest hommage to the courageous people of Fukushima prefecture. They survived a triple disaster in 2011 and are now, nine years later, still fighting with the consequences. I wish them well in their strugle for their beautiful province and thank them for their kindness during this trip.
Fukushima is the third largest prefecture in Japan (14,000 km²), and one of its least densely populated. The prefecture is divided into three main regions: Aizu in the west, Naka dori in the centre and Hama dori in the east. Aizu is mountainous with snowy winters, while the climate in Hama dori is moderated by the Pacific Ocean.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故 Fukushima Dai-ichi (About this soundpronunciation) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko) was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The disaster was the most severe nuclear accident since the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the only other disaster to be given the Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale.
The accident was started by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.] On detecting the earthquake, the active reactors automatically shut down their fission reactions. Because of the reactor trips and other grid problems, the electricity supply failed, and the reactors' emergency diesel generators automatically started. Critically, they were powering the pumps that circulated coolant through the reactors' cores to remove decay heat, which continues after fission has ceased. The earthquake generated a 14-meter-high tsunami that swept over the plant's seawall and flooded the plant's lower grounds around the Units 1–4 reactor buildings with sea water, filling the basements and knocking out the emergency generators. The resultant loss-of-coolant accidents led to three nuclear meltdowns, three hydrogen explosions, and the release of radioactive contamination in Units 1, 2 and 3 between 12 and 15 March. The spent fuel pool of previously shut-down Reactor 4 increased in temperature on 15 March due to decay heat from newly added spent fuel rods, but did not boil down sufficiently to expose the fuel.
In the days after the accident, radiation released to the atmosphere forced the government to declare an ever larger evacuation zone around the plant, culminating in an evacuation zone with a 20-kilometer radius. All told, some 154,000 residents evacuated from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors.
Large amounts of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes were released into the Pacific Ocean during and after the disaster. Michio Aoyama, a professor of radioisotope geoscience at the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, has estimated that 18,000 terabecquerel (TBq) of radioactive caesium 137 were released into the Pacific during the accident, and in 2013, 30 gigabecquerel (GBq) of caesium 137 were still flowing into the ocean every day. The plant's operator has since built new walls along the coast and also created a 1.5-kilometer-long "ice wall" of frozen earth to stop the flow of contaminated water.
While there has been ongoing controversy over the health effects of the disaster, a 2014 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and World Health Organization projected no increase in miscarriages, stillbirths or physical and mental disorders in babies born after the accident. An ongoing intensive cleanup program to both decontaminate affected areas and decommission the plant will take 30 to 40 years, plant management estimate.
On 5 July 2012, the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) found that the causes of the accident had been foreseeable, and that the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), had failed to meet basic safety requirements such as risk assessment, preparing for containing collateral damage, and developing evacuation plans. At a meeting in Vienna three months after the disaster, the International Atomic Energy Agency faulted lax oversight by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, saying the ministry faced an inherent conflict of interest as the government agency in charge of both regulating and promoting the nuclear power industry. On 12 October 2012, TEPCO admitted for the first time that it had failed to take necessary measures for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants.
Scholars gathered together at the Pequot Museum on Friday & Saturday, Oct. 18 & 19, for the 17th Century American Northeast Conference to reexamine the complexity of a changing cultural landscape and the consequences of colonization and warfare.
On April 1, 2014, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Ph.D., Assistant Dean and Professor from the School of International and Public Affairs at Shanghai Jiaotong University, gave a seminar on major administrative, economic, and social reforms the Chinese Communist Party decided to implement after the 3rd Plenum of the 18th Central Committee in November 2013.
Rep. Nan Hayworth hosted a closed-door briefing with credit rating agency officials to discuss the potential consequences of not raising the debt ceiling by the August deadline. Joined by over 40 fellow House Republicans at the informational briefing, David Beers from Standard and Poor’s, Brian Reid for Investment Company Institute, Dan Cohen from Depository Trust Clearing Corporation and Srini Ramaswamy from JP Morgan cautioned the group of a likely downgrade of the U.S. credit rating unless the government undertakes a serious deficit reduction program. Officials emphasized the U.S. could still face a downgrade even if the debt ceiling is raised, if there is not debt plan in place.
The consequences of a sparrowhawk flying over the flash in front of the Inner Marsh Farm hide at Burton Mere Wetlands. The black-tailed godwit are looking alert and ready to go but as usual the lapwing were the first to leave.
There are also a couple of ruff (one in flight) in the shot. The ducks are teal.
One consequence of having tried to avoid well known photographic locations is that - paradoxically - one's own offerings can become a bit repetitive when assembling a collection like this if, like me, you relied on favourite local haunts. So, that's my excuse for showing my interpretation of a well known view for the Edinburgh to Fort William Sleeper Train in 2006. The area around Achallader has scenery as stunning as any to be found in in Scotland - as worthy a backdrop as any for a Class 37!
Boé,
Avenue Jean Jaurès.
Les Tags ne sont pas effacés alors les propriétaires ne se donnent plus la peine de crépir les murs.
Le Paysage urbain agenais n'en finit plus de se dégrader.
Consequences of storm in Rijeka, Croatia. Hurricane uprooted giant tree, whose roots are not able to withstand the squall.
"Terrorist" Spc. Gordon Lambert, U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg Directorate of Emergency Services, executes a prisoner after warning military police that he just wanted to talk to someone during a anti-terror and consequence management exercise held at the Nachrichten Kaserne Saturday.
Photo by Jason L. Austin, Herald Post staff
Fish at the Robin 2, Bilston on the Feast of Consequences tour with
Robin Boult (Guitar)
Foss Paterson (Keyboards)
Steve Vantsis (Bass)
Gavin Griffiths (Drums)
This is a modest hommage to the courageous people of Fukushima prefecture. They survived a triple disaster in 2011 and are now, nine years later, still fighting with the consequences. I wish them well in their strugle for their beautiful province and thank them for their kindness during this trip.
Fukushima is the third largest prefecture in Japan (14,000 km²), and one of its least densely populated. The prefecture is divided into three main regions: Aizu in the west, Naka dori in the centre and Hama dori in the east. Aizu is mountainous with snowy winters, while the climate in Hama dori is moderated by the Pacific Ocean.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故 Fukushima Dai-ichi (About this soundpronunciation) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko) was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The disaster was the most severe nuclear accident since the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the only other disaster to be given the Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale.
The accident was started by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.] On detecting the earthquake, the active reactors automatically shut down their fission reactions. Because of the reactor trips and other grid problems, the electricity supply failed, and the reactors' emergency diesel generators automatically started. Critically, they were powering the pumps that circulated coolant through the reactors' cores to remove decay heat, which continues after fission has ceased. The earthquake generated a 14-meter-high tsunami that swept over the plant's seawall and flooded the plant's lower grounds around the Units 1–4 reactor buildings with sea water, filling the basements and knocking out the emergency generators. The resultant loss-of-coolant accidents led to three nuclear meltdowns, three hydrogen explosions, and the release of radioactive contamination in Units 1, 2 and 3 between 12 and 15 March. The spent fuel pool of previously shut-down Reactor 4 increased in temperature on 15 March due to decay heat from newly added spent fuel rods, but did not boil down sufficiently to expose the fuel.
In the days after the accident, radiation released to the atmosphere forced the government to declare an ever larger evacuation zone around the plant, culminating in an evacuation zone with a 20-kilometer radius. All told, some 154,000 residents evacuated from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors.
Large amounts of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes were released into the Pacific Ocean during and after the disaster. Michio Aoyama, a professor of radioisotope geoscience at the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, has estimated that 18,000 terabecquerel (TBq) of radioactive caesium 137 were released into the Pacific during the accident, and in 2013, 30 gigabecquerel (GBq) of caesium 137 were still flowing into the ocean every day. The plant's operator has since built new walls along the coast and also created a 1.5-kilometer-long "ice wall" of frozen earth to stop the flow of contaminated water.
While there has been ongoing controversy over the health effects of the disaster, a 2014 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and World Health Organization projected no increase in miscarriages, stillbirths or physical and mental disorders in babies born after the accident. An ongoing intensive cleanup program to both decontaminate affected areas and decommission the plant will take 30 to 40 years, plant management estimate.
On 5 July 2012, the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) found that the causes of the accident had been foreseeable, and that the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), had failed to meet basic safety requirements such as risk assessment, preparing for containing collateral damage, and developing evacuation plans. At a meeting in Vienna three months after the disaster, the International Atomic Energy Agency faulted lax oversight by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, saying the ministry faced an inherent conflict of interest as the government agency in charge of both regulating and promoting the nuclear power industry. On 12 October 2012, TEPCO admitted for the first time that it had failed to take necessary measures for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants.
November 18, 2010 - "Roles for Third Parties in Improving Implementation of EPA's and OSHA's Regulations on the Management of Low-Probability, High-Consequence Process Safety Risks" - Penn Program on Regulation, in conjunction with the Wharton Risk Management Center, hosted a conference regarding the usage of third party auditors in the enforcement of regulatory safety measures in high risk industries. Industries which experts call "Low-Probability, High-Consequence," such as nuclear reactors, oil refineries, or chemical processing plants, are specifically hoped to be improved by third party inspections safety. The conference brought together numerous participants from a variety of fields, including from government, industry, insurance, academia, and non-profit sectors. The conference consisted of a day-long discussion spread over three separate panels. Over the course of the conference, participants stressed the importance of implementing a third party system to effectively and thoroughly audit industry despite lack of adequate funds and resources. Other potential scenarios offered for enacting effective third party auditing included making sure that these third party auditors were completely independent from the industries they would be inspecting so as to eliminate bias or a conflict of interest. Another issue to consider is the question of whose authority would the third party auditors be under and what kind of enforcement power would they have to enforce industry change. One of the panel discussions brought up the potential linkage of third party audits with insurance companies so as to provide an incentive for industry to decrease safety risks in order to pay lower insurance premiums. Workshop participants included Isadore "Irv" Rosenthal, a Senior Research Fellow at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Howard Kunreuther, James G. Dinan Professor of Business and Public Policy at Wharton and Co-Director of the Wharton Risk Center; Laurie Miller, Senior Director of Environment and Process Safety at the American Chemistry Council; Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, Managing Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Scott Berger, Executive Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Don Nguyen, a Principal Process Safety Management Engineer at Siemens Energy, Inc.; Mike Marshall, Process Safety Management Coordinator at the Directorate of Enforcement Programs at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) within the United States Department of Labor; Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation; Bob Whitmore, Former Chief of OSHA Division of Recordkeeping at the United States Department of Labor; Jim Belke, Chemical Engineer at the Office of Emergency Prevention and Member of the Office of Chemical Preparedness within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); William Doerr, FM Global Research Area Director; Manuel Gomez, Director of Recommendations at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board; Tim Cillessen, Manager of Sales and Marketing at Siemens Energy, Inc.; Mike Wright, Director of Health, Safety, and Environment at United Steelworkers; Jennifer Nash, Affiliated Researcher of Nanotechnology and Society Research Group at Northeastern University and the Associate Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Executive Director of Regulatory Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Michael Perron, Senior Vice President of Willis Re New York.
"I make mistakes
Just like everybody else
But instead of letting go of it
I can't forgive myself" - New Low, Middle Class Rut
Forgive my rather emotional language, but if you are responsible for this you are a moron of the first order.
Okay, maybe you just put the paint pot down and walked on, then another moron knocked it over.
Next morning, a load of little kids had to walk to school through this. It's all over their shoes, its gets walked into their school, into their houses, ruins the paving stones in the Passage...still think there's no consequences to just leaving that paint pot in the street?
When that butterfly flaps its wings, I hope you are at the epicentre of the subsequent earthquake...
Update Enterprise cleared the pot and put some sort of granules down on the mess but not before the paint had been walked all through the infant school and caused a dreadful mess in the brand new nursery building. The flagstones are ruined. I hope there is some way of getting them clean again, but I'm not holding out much hope that they'll just do it. I've seen plenty of old paint spills round here that are just left.
Update #2: The flagstones in the Passage were jet washed clean, although the street on either side was not.
I thought this had almost a spaghetti-western feel to it, except for all the green grass of course.
This is an old graveyard behind the Weir village, near Clarinbridge, County Galway.
"Consequence" a film by MENage a trois Production playing August 25th and the Harbor Playhouse Corpus Christi Tx. Created for the CC7Day Film race.
A scene from 'Fight or Flight' by Play Havoc (formerly 'Kinetic') from Buckhaven, Scotland.
This was performed at the MacRobert Theatre, Stirling as part of National Theatre of Scotland's Exchange 2012 programme.
As it happens, this was actually the very first shot I took on Saturday. I've processed the RAW file at a couple of different exposure levels and combined via layer masking to get a more balanced result.
The cast was: Kim Hardie, Ricky Williamson, Jonathan Jonstone, Scott Ringan, Michael Fraser
The play was directed by Claire Broomfield.
You can see other shots from this play at these links:
My neighbors have been building a papercrete fence. They use a 1000
gallon McCain tow behind mixer with a mix of 3 parts cardboard and 1
part cement. The total size is 150' and this was done via slip forming.
A series of three multilayer plywood artworks, 120x72cm. All the details were laser cut, spray painted and assembled by hand. Available at Lollipop Gallery, London.
Truth or Consequences ( T or C) 2017 ( 68TH ) Fiesta Parade .
T or C in County seat of Sierra County NM .
ANGEL 1
Sierra Vista Hospital Ford Expedition command/equipment truck purchased through an EMO grant from Homeland Security to reach places an ambulance can't access. It carries rope rescue gear and a gurney. It is 4WD so it can go places the ambulance can't.
Mold is basically a fungus that grows in the Damp areas like in bathroom, plumbing, cabinet, AC cabinet and walls, due to the high humidity levels and also in outdoors to conserve the ecosystem by decaying the dead organism by feeding on them. Mold or Mold Spores have both the good and bad impact on our environment. It plays an important role in the outside environment. Whereas, the Mold Growth inside a home have adverse effects and should be taken into concern. For more information, visit homerestorationinfo.tumblr.com/post/171151928024/conseque...