Reading the daily news today I stepped onto an interesting article written by Richard Gray at the brittish paper The Telegraph. It took on the subject of nuclear fusion as finally being a possible alternative sometime in the near future, saying that the experiments will be successful. Fusion compaired to fission does not leave any radioactive fallouts, instead all it leaves behind is the gas that makes you sound like "Chip and Dale" and "the chipmunks", also known as helium.

If this were to be a reality it would be a huge breakthrough in the energy debate. The way nuclear is used today for energy purposes is being critized by many, yet I'd say its the far most efficient source of electricity that we have available. Water, sure, for the countries that have loads of it. Wind? Its just for environmental friendly illlusionists. Coal, oil and the sorts is an asset that is thinning, not only in the amount available to us but also in a matter of thick ozon layer. Walking around with an iron umbrella can after all be quite heavy? Don't you think?

Lets give a cheer and cross our fingers, toes, legs, arms and tounge for the scientists at Rutherford!

The article about nuclear fusion at The Telegraphs' homepage can be found through this link:

Nuclear fusion energy project could lead to limitless clean electricity 

Via the article you can find a picture futuring an overview explanation to the fusion process, but if you'd rather just want it right away you can click here.

To start off, let me introduce my self. My name is Dennis, I am a 20 yearld old Ukrainian born living in Canada. I love to travel and have always had a profound interest in history, especially the classical era which includes the great empires of the Romans, Grecques, Persian and more. Although I have always had a strong interest in a much more recent and known event. For the past few years, the Chernobyl accident of 1986 has been holding my curiosity hostage therefore during my yearly trip to Europe, I decided to comply with the demands of curiosity. I decided to go to visit the so called "Zone of Exclusion".

This site will be a narrated photo album of my journey trough Chernobyl and its neighboring city, Prypiat.

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This photo is not so much stunning in its beauty, but in its chaos.

This photo is of Pripjat, a city that was built along with Chernobyl and is now a ghost city. Check out more of Carl's pictures on his photostream

Devo dire, però, che le dichiarazioni che il primo cittadino ha rilasciato a Napoli, in occasione della festa dell'MpA, mi hanno deluso e mi hanno lasciato sgomento.

E' vero, a Reggio Calabria c'è poca microcriminalità. Ma questo, dando merito all'operato dell'Amministrazione e delle forze dell'ordine, accade in quasi tutte le piccole città.

Dire che "Reggio, a parte la 'ndrangheta, è una città sicura" è come dire che le acque dell'oceano, a parte gli squali, sono acque tranquillamente balneabili, o che Chernobyl, a parte i gas radioattivi, è una località salubre o, ancora, che Charles Manson, a parte gli omicidi, è una persona amabile e di compagnia.

Potrei continuare all'infinito: la 'ndrangheta e tutto ciò che essa comporta, non deve essere inserita in un compartimento stagno e quindi valutata a parte. La 'ndrangheta, le bombe, i morti, il pizzo, ecc. ecc. creano insicurezza, rendono il territorio meno appetibile, sotto l'aspetto turistico e sotto quello imprenditoriale: nessun imprenditore onesto sceglierebbe Reggio Calabria per i propri investimenti.

Si tratta di problemi famosi e in ciò Scopelliti, ovviamente, non ha alcuna colpa, ma anche il tentativo (l'ossessione, direi) di portare fuori un'immagine positiva di Reggio deve avere un limite, per non sfociare nel paradosso.

Here is the tricky part...They revved up the BSCMF on September 10th. They successfully spun some stuff this way for a while, then they successfully spun some stuff that way for a while...then something broke, and they flipped that infamous switch to turn it off just one day after turning it on. One week later, they decide to let the world know that they encountered a "glitch".

After so much fanfare on this machine why would they wait a week to release news that it is broke only a day after turning it on? If the press hadn't inquired on some rumors, they would probably still be keeping it a secret. I guess on some level we should be happy that they aren't telling us about their "glitch" from inside some "doomsday" bunker and wishing us all the best of luck.

So, the BSCMF overheated or something like that. No big deal. It is bound to happen when you have mega-tons of equipment and about a billion moving parts. These scientists are smart, but they are still human and therefore aren't perfect. They may be certain that their big science project is safe and not going to cause the end of the world, but how could they have known it was going to over heat?

"Glitches" are no big deal, right? They are just harmless little errors that occur and rarely lead to anything bad happening like nuclear meltdowns, airplane crashes, ships sinking, etc. Sure, it is rare, but it does happen on occasion, and generally when it does it is isolated to large or fairly new technology with lots of moving parts. Here are just a few examples of some of the worlds most famous "glitches".

• Chernobyl - April 26, 1986 at 1:23:45 a.m., reactor 4 suffers a massive, catastrophic power excursion, resulting in a steam explosion, which rips the top off the reactor like a soda can, exposes the core and disperses a crap load of radioactive junk, allowing air (oxygen) to contact the super-hot core of combustible graphite moderator. The burning graphite moderator thereby increases even more the emission of radioactive particles.
• Space Shuttle Challenger - January 28, 1986 - Disintegration of the shuttle began 73 seconds into its flight after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The seal failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it filled, allowing a flare to reach the outside and impinge upon the adjacent attachment hardware and external fuel tank. The SRB breach flare led to the separation of the right-hand SRB and the structural failure of the external tank. Aerodynamic forces promptly broke up the orbiter.
• Japan Airlines Flight 123 - August 12, 1985- All 15 crew members and 505 out of 509 passengers died, resulting in a total of 520 deaths. About 12 minutes after takeoff, as the aircraft reached cruising altitude the rear pressure bulkhead failed. The resulting explosive decompression tore the vertical stabilizer from the aircraft and severed all four of the aircraft's hydraulic systems. No stabilizer and no hydraulic systems pretty much means you have no control of the aircraft other than velocity of your engines. Therefore, you have several minutes at a high altitude to contemplate your life and your impending death while the plane flies around at its own volition waiting to crash into something. Many of the passengers on this flight had time to write letters to their loved ones.
  
• The Hindenburg - May 6, 1937 - The German rigid airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed within one minute while attempting to dock with its mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board, 35 people died in addition to one fatality on the ground. No one knows for sure what caused the fire on the Hindenburg. There are some sabotage theories, but most relate to some kind of electrical spark from somewhere that caused the chain reaction. My guess is the latter and I quantify that as a "glitch" in the engineering of this gigantic flying ball of fire.

So, technology is created by humans, and humans make errors. Irregardless of how many brainy scientists check, double-check, and triple-check, when there are a million moving pieces you are never going to think of every possibility. "Glitches" happen every day that we don't know about, and the world keeps turning. However, when it comes to giant machines that have massive power to create and destroy, then the word "glitch" is not so innocent and harmless sounding. In fact, it can be a little ominous or scary.

Do you really want to hear the pilot on your flight say "We seem to have a glitch in our landing gear, so..."? Maybe that is cool with you, but it would have me reaching for a clean pair of underwear in short order.

All I am saying is that "glitch" is no simple word to be dismissed or taken lightly at any time. It is serious business that costs companies billions and in worst case scenarios it costs lives.

As for the BSCMF, I am sure that glitches will be a normal routine in the beginning, and I really hope that it has a very long and healthy future ahead of it. I'll keep my fingers crossed that one of the glitches doesn't cause some unforeseen chain-reaction that sucks our world down some huge cosmic toilet. That would really suck.

That's just my opinion...and it ain't worth much.

Eastern Europe, girls are hot
Eastern Europe, girls are hot
Eastern Europe
Chernobyl's on fire, a malfunction
Eastern Europe, girls are still hot
Eastern Europe is still hot
Eastern Europe
Chernobyl's on fire, next door!

He looked like a barbarian
Singing the Bible with his band
A psalm grew in his hand
Turns out they were all Romanians
Burning desires down them pants
Sensation in a can

Eastern Europe, girls are hot
Eastern Europe, girls are hot
Eastern Europe
Chernobyl's on fire, a malfunction
Eastern Europe girls are still hot
Eastern Europe is still hot
Eastern Europe
Chernobyl's on fire, next door!

“Chernobyl Chicks (The Erectile Dysfunction Singalong)” - Sonic Leftovers EP (2005)
Find this song on Amie Street - Bluetracks.ca - 7digital Indiestore

I've sent them an E-Mail on August 5th, 2008. This is my mail:

Here are their responses:

They say, it can be found here: http://www.bfs.de/de/bfs/druck/Ufoplan/4334_KIKK.html

And also in the European Journal of Cancer (Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 275 - 284, Authors Spix C., Schmiedel S., Kaatsch P., Schulze-Rath R. and Blettner N.)

For all English speaking persons out there, here are the translated KiKK study docs (by ejcancer - the European Cancer Journal):

http://www.ejcancer.info/article/S0959-8049(07)00855-6/abstract

http://www.ejcancer.info/article/S0959-8049(07)00855-6/fulltext

http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0959-8049/PIIS0959804907008556.pdf

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La notizia è di quelle che non ti viene voglia di fare ironia e cercare di non essere sarcastici.  Non mi sono ancora pentito delle mie scelte personali e spero che non accada ma, quando leggi di queste 'porcherie' la rabbia sale fino ai capelli. 

Quante sono le teste di cazzo in MOLISE ?   10 mila, 100 mila, 300 mila !!!!

Dove erano e dove sono i politici di maggiornanza e minoranza ? 

Dove erano e dove sono i giornalisti locali grandi e piccoli ?

Cosa hanno fatto e fanno i responsabili, oltre che compilare degli inutili fogli di carta per giustificare un cospicuo ma immeritato stipendio ?

E la popolazione ????

Perchè queste cose non succedono in Trentino ???

la Stampa  

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@altromolise

So, what can I say? If you want to congratulate too, visit her website: Irina-Gruschewaja.de

It reads:

The only true propaganda in Belarus

Irina Gruschewaja - 60 years of renewable energy

regards!

Life-Upgrade.com

Imagen robada de aqui: Dibujando Dibujos

Pues hoy os escribo desde el otro lado del agujero negro, yo ni me enteraba que el mundo iba acabar con esa maquinilla, que para mi ya estaba funcionando, pues como soy muy intelectual, me veo todos los documentales en Discovery Channel y NG, y cuando lo vi, dije: "Ohhh mira tu, que interesante, y que ida de olla mas fenomenal" eso sin hablar del dinero que costo y para que? para nada, que a no ser que este yo en un universo parelelo no me digas na, que no entiendo.

Ayer antes de irme a dormir, me dije: " Que fuerte todo esto eh, morire sin presentare en el Madison Square Garden y sin hacer el dueto con Madonna", entre otras cosas pase de actualizar esto porque nadie lo iba a leer, ibamos estar todos muertos, como polvo cosmico, pero para mi sorpresa esta manyana, me despierto y que? si, todos vivos, los aviones pasando, me asomo a la ventana y esperaba ver una imagen desoladora como en Chernobyl y nada, eran las ardillas corriendo una detras de la otra, eso no se vale, lo llenan a uno de ilusiones y todo para quedar vivio.

Fue ahi cuando me dije: "Perro, tienes que hacer algo con tu vida ya que no moriste", y pues decide entrar a un concurso de Blogs, Los Premios 20Blogs, ( el mio en la categoria Expatriados, esperando el e-mail de confirmacion) las posibilidades que gane son nulas, que generalmente en concursos asi me la meten doblada, aunque gane por ventaja astronomica, sorpresas al final senyores, no citare donde, ni cuando fue porque no quiero causarle problemas a Marta a su Fotolog y a su concurso El Magnico Anonimo ( que hoy es su cumple ) , esperemos que aqui por lo menos no me llene de ilusiones y luego me digan " Juasssss en toda la cara tomaaaaaa, que ganar naaaaaaaa" que me quedare muelto en la banyera.

Asi que ire avisando de como me va, si me quereis votar hacerlo, se que contare con 1 voto seguro ( eso espero ), pero por lo menos desearme suerte lol.

Feliz dia de no fin del mundo.

]]> http://energyrecruitmentsolutions.wordpress.com/?p=490 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:41:25 +0000 ersjobs http://energy-recruitment.net/2008/09/10/project-manager-chernobyl-ukraine/ Project Manager

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Ref. No. 496/GAB. The Project Management Unit is responsible for the management of two major ongoing projects, the Interim Dry Fuel Storage Facility and Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant, together with the management of smaller support contracts. The two main projects are multi-disciplinary contracts, valued at Euro 200m and Euro 6m respectively, with the purpose of supporting the decommissioning of the ChNPP power plant.

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Salary

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130,000 barrels of middle and low radiative waste, kilograms of Plutonium and Caesium 147 - 750 meters below.  Asse 2 was and is the world's first underground disposal for radioactive waste. And then this scandal:

Long lasting leak in Asse II

Now, Germany's environmental minister Sigmar Gabriel takes over the Asse II disposal - the federal environmental agency "Bundesumweltministerium" is now responsible for Asse II. The new operator is the federal agency for radiation protection Germany - web - known from their KiKK study.

The former operators State Office for mining, energy and geology in the German federal state Niedersachsen (Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie / LBEG) - HERE is their website and the “Helmholtz Zentrum München” / Munich - HERE is their website failed to operate the disposal properly.

Both did not react on their website.

Asse II is full of holes, as Gabriel said. He added, the cause of fault is not clear.

Let this be a learning experience for all pro atomic power activists.

regards,

Life-Upgrade.com

One of the leading atomic physicists in the former Soviet Union, Prof. Vassili Nesterenko has died in Minsk. He was one of the last independet scientists in Belarus and a liquidator during the Chernobyl catastrophe (atomic reactor explosion in 1986). I met him in person in April 2006, in Geseke / Germany, during a Belarussian-German meeting "20 Years of Chernobyl". It was an honour. He was a friend of the "Chernobyl Children" and well known internationally. Here are more informations: Wikipedia

More: Chernobyl: The Main Scientific Reports

regards,

Life-Upgrade.com

Amazing Matrioska (Russian Doll) by Jamie Pitarch, with the Chernobyl radiation effects.

Via: [ we-make-money-not-art ]

En mis vacaciones estuve investigando sobre fantasmas y estuve con un equipo en un cementerio tomando algunas fotos, videos y audio... asi que para aquellos amantes de lo oculto pues creo q les gustara.

Aunque ya comenzo un nuevo semestre intentare actualizar el blog continuamente... y ya saben pidan temas de lo que sea...

Esten pendientes a lo nuevo que pondre... y espero poder resolver dudas de cualquier tipo...

Una cosa mas... yo se que muchas de las investigaciones que hago solo es informacion copiada y pegada de sitios de internet... lo unico que pretendo es darle un poco de forma y reunirla de varios lugares.... dando tambien mi punto de vista sobre el tema.... lo digo por que se que muchos lo han notado....

Bueno... por hoy es todo...

This is the original text - HERE

German translation and recapitulation - HERE

regards,

Life-Upgrade.com

The gallery features photographs taken in and around the premises of the condemned houses on King George Road in South Shields. These buildings have been marked for the chop for some time now and have thus become a hang out for the local chav gangs (aka scumbags) who have decorated the place with various graffiti and litter, as well as vandalising all the buildings.

Now, as this is the height of summer (supposedly) all the buildings and gardens are now over grown with plant life and resemble a scene more reminiscent of the abandoned cities of Chernobyl or Pripyat in the Ukraine. 

Thats something I've always thought seemed interesting is how our world would look if we left it, so thats really where the inspiration for these shots come from.

The gallery itself will hopefully be online in the next few days, so stay tuned and I hope you'll enjoy it.

Edgewater Hospital was founded in 1929 and most of the current buildings were constructions in the '40's - '60's. It's famous as the birthplace of both John Wayne Gacy and Hillary Rodham Clinton. In 2001, the hospital abruptly closed its doors permanently when its management and many of its doctors were found guilty of committing Medicare fraud.

Photo by Comtesse DeSpair

The set is a treasury (and sometimes a children's treasury) of empty hallways, a creepy morgue, strange equipment, labs, people's medical records and funny signs. Judging by Comtesse's other sets, abandoned buildings are kind of her thing.

It reminded me of a book my sister has. I love pictures of places left behind and the warm post apocalyptic feeling they give me.  As this same sister said, "Post Apocalypse is my favorite historical period."

Which then got me thinking about my brief trip to New Orleans over a year ago.

I was there for a conference but dipped into the Lower 9th when a plucky volunteer offered to take me out of the French Quarter. It was awful and fascinating and sad all at once. The image above was taken almost two years after the hurricane.

I think what I like about the EMC photos, the Chernobyl book and to a lesser extent my pictures of NOLA is the idea that little pieces of the world are ending everywhere but we never get to see it unless we go looking.

Las vacaciones de verano no son sólo sinónimo de diversión y descanso. Para muchas familias de la provincia de Almería también lo son de solidaridad, acogiendo a niños y niñas de Bielorrusia afectados por la catástrofe de Chernobyl. Para los niños también será un verano diferente, lejos de las penurias cotidianas de su país de origen.

Su estancia en nuestra tierra durante julio y agosto, el cariño de su familia de acogida, el clima mediterráneo y la calidad de nuestras frutas y hortalizas les permitirán recuperar defensas para combatir las enfermedades a las que están expuestos en su país, leucemia, anemia, afecciones respiratorias y digestivas, entre otras.

Estas vacaciones de acogida están organizadas por la ONG Familias Solidarias con el Pueblo Bielorruso, que cuenta con la ayuda desinteresada de un pequeño número de familias de Almería, Huercal Overa, Roquetas de Mar, El Ejido, Huercal de Almería, Maria, Vélez Rubio y Albox.

Los beneficios que obtienen los pequeños son numerosos. “Especialmente de salud”, ya que se aprovecha su visita para que puedan tener chequeos médicos, que difícilmente se podrían realizar en Bielorrusia y acceder a una alimentación completa y variada.

Para José y Belén, matrimonio de profesionales y con hijos mayores, éste es el quinto año que acogen a Dasha, una preciosa niña de 10 años. Aseguran que “esta experiencia da grandes satisfacciones y la mayor parte de las familias repite”.

Uno de los principales miedos de las personas que no se deciden a acoger es tener que despedirse de estos niños, después de dos meses de cariño y cuidado. Sin embargo, las familias que han vivido esta experiencia, como Belén, insisten en que los niños “a pesar de ser muy felices en Almería quieren volver con sus familias cuando acaba el verano”. Y que la vivencia merece la pena “cuando ves sus carencias valoras más lo que tenemos aquí, incluso con esta crisis, y comprendes que no cuesta tanto sacar a estos niños de esa situación durante dos meses”

http://www.ideal.es/almeria/20080811/almeria/solidaridad-tiene-vacaciones-20080811.html

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Encontra-se disponível no sítio internet do Ministério do Meio Ambiente a Licença Prévia nº 279/2008 emitida pelo Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis – IBAMA em favor de Eletrobrás Termonuclear S/A.. A concessão do alvará foi tratada em grande estilo e anunciada pelo próprio Ministro de Estado da pasta à qual o IBAMA está vinculado. Estaremos diante de uma licença eco-libertária? [mais]