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ISS members evacuate as fast moving debris approach station
The six-member crew of the International Space Station were forced to evacuate to two Russian Soyuz evacuation capsules after spotting incoming debris that threatened to flatten the fragile craft
The space junk missed the craft by 820ft, a Russian space industry source told the Interfax news agency
“The space junk was detected too late for a ducking manoeuvre,” the source told Interfax.
“The six ISS crew members received instructions to transfer to the Soyuz vehicles,” the Russian source said. -
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Flood berm collapses at Fort Calhoun (Nebraska) nuclear plant, emergency generators running
A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from the Fort Calhoun (Nebraska) nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday.The berm’s collapse didn’t affect the reactor shutdown cooling or the spent fuel pool cooling, but the power supply was cut after water surrounded the main electrical transformers. Emergency generators powered the plant until an off-site power supply was connected Sunday afternoon.
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Mr X
Standing the test of time: Clock that will tick for 10,000 years in remote mountain
Some of us would be satisfied if our watch battery lasted for 10 years.But Stuart Kendall, 66, is working on a fascinating project to construct a 200ft clock resting 500ft into a remote mountain in the Sierra Diablos, Texas, which will chime daily for a whopping 10,000 years.
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, 47, has put $42million into the groundbreaking idea and wants the clock to become an ‘icon for long-term thinking’ and get people considering more about the future.
watch out with the sound volume of the next video:
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singular
multiple 7.2-7.4 earthquakes hit Alaska: tsunami warning issued
At 7:10 PM Alaskan Daylight Time on June 23, an earthquake with preliminary magnitude 7.3 occurred 20 miles/32 Km southeast of Amukta Pass, Alaska . (Refer to the United States Geological Survey for official earthquake parameters.) Earthquakes of this size are known to generate tsunamis. If a tsunami has been generated, the waves will first reach Adak, Alaska at 8:12 PM AKDT on June 23. Estimated tsunami arrival times andmaps along with safety rules and other information can be found on the WCATWC web site.
A Tsunami Warning is now in effect which includes the coastal areas of Alaska from Unimak Pass, Alaska (80 miles NE of Dutch Harbor) to Amchitka Pass, Alaska (125 miles W of Adak).links:
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/2011/06/24/ln9y44/01/messageln9y44-01.htm
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.phpUPDATE: warning cancelled
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singular
Levee breaks north of Brownville; unknown consequences for Cooper nuclear plant
DEVELOPING STORY
Despite the risk of being flooded, the Cooper nuclear plant still operates at full power
A levee three miles north of Brownville in Missouri failed at about 9 p.m. Thursday, right in front a pair of people patrolling there. ”It happened so quick that they were concerned that they may not be able to escape,” Mark Manchester, deputy emergency management director for Atchison County, Mo., said late Thursday. “The water was coming through fast and hard. … We’re not sure what the size of the break is so far.”
The Cooper nuclear plant of Brownsville plant is still operating at full power. Consequences of this levee failure for the nuclear plant are still unknown.
Currently, another US nuclear plant (Fort Calhoun) is also facing trouble from the floodings.
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singular
Sixth sense: humans might have a ‘magnetic sense’
Human retinas have the protein cryptochrome, used for magnetic navigation in some species. Humans may thus have an incipient magnetic sense! So says a study in the journal Nature Communications. [Lauren Foley, Robert Gegear and Steven Reppert, "Human Cryptochrome Exhibits Light-Dependent Magnetosensitivity"] -
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CNN reports: International Atomic Energy Association and TEPCO lied about Fukushima
Both TEPCO and the IAEA were lying about the Fukushima nuclear disaster, well-known physicist Michio Kaku told in an CNN interview.
KAKU: [...] We knew it was much more severe than they were saying, because radiation was coming out left and right. So in other words, they lied to us. [...]
[...] Realize Chernobyl was one core’s worth radiation causing a $200 billion accident and it is still on- going. Here we have 20 cores worth of radiation. Three totally melted, one damaged and the [rest in] spent fuel pumps, 20 cores worth of highly radioactive materials. [...]
Michio Kaku is an American physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, and co-founder of string field theory.
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singular
US Court rules taxpayers, Not BP, are liable for gulf oil spill clean up costs
In a bizarre verdict, the US District court has dismissed over 100,000 lawsuits brought against BP And Transocean to pay for oil spill clean up costs and environmental damages caused to the Gulf of Mexico from the BP Gulf Oil Spill. The court ruled that injury stopped the moment the well was sealed and the Federal Government (aka The US taxpayer) is now liable for clean up costs along with any damages caused by deficiencies of the cleanup of the Gulf Of Mexico.link: http://www.activistpost.com/2011/06/bp-wins-big-one-in-oil-spill-litigation.html
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US Dam safety officials: 4000 dams at risk of imminent failure
More than 4,000 (of the 80,000) aging dams in the U.S. alone are at high risk of imminent failure, according to the Association of State Dam Safety Officials. But the problem is probably worldwide.
At the moment, the USA and China are facing unprecedented floods, putting a lot of stress on the dams.
Full article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=more-dangerous-than-nuclear-power-t-2011-06-17