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はてなキーワード: Wasteとは
これはあまり知られていないが、イーロン・マスクの本当の革命計画は、うんちにある。
スペースX、テスラ、ニューラリンク、あれらは全部カモフラージュにすぎない。
本命は、人類の排泄物を資源化して、文明構造を根本からひっくり返す計画だ。
まず注目してほしいのは、彼が2024年に取得したとされる非公開特許：
「Microbial Symbiosis Reactor Using Human Waste for Energy and AI Growth」（人糞を用いたエネルギーおよびAI成長用微生物共生リアクター）
この技術、表向きは「火星での循環型居住システム」に使うと言われている。
が、実態は違う。
人間のうんちに含まれる個人固有の腸内フローラと感情由来の化学物質を解析することで、個人特定および行動予測が可能になる。
イーロンはこれを利用して、「うんち経由の信用スコア」を作ろうとしている。
・性行動の傾向
全部、便からわかる。
そしてそれをAIと連動させれば――
怖い？でも、すでに一部のSpaceX施設では「バイオトイレ×DNA登録」の実験が始まっているという。
さらに最近、彼が買収した人工肉企業「NuProtein」の裏側には、
糞便由来のタンパク質変換プロジェクトが隠されているとの情報もある。
これが完成すれば、人類は自分のうんちを食べて再利用する完全自給型生体循環システムに入る。
食料危機？終わりです。
結論。
うんちを通じて「エネルギー」「食料」「健康」「信用情報」をすべて一元管理することだ。
あなたのトイレにも、もうすぐ小型カメラとAIセンサーがつくかもしれない。
その時、あなたは「誰のうんちか」を問われることになる。
民主党の数名の下院議員が弾劾決議案を作成し、弾劾手続きを進めるように訴えたが、民主党の首脳陣は、時期尚早としてのっかっていない。
起草したのはシュリ・タナダー下院議員とアル・グリーン下院議員。
本筋ではないが、弾劾決議案で話題になったのち、同じインド出身で、ジョンソンアンドジョンソンの役員を父に持ち、ダートマス大学からヘリテージ財団、レーガンのアドバイザーと転身し、キリスト教系の大学で学長をしている際に行った不貞と偽証で辞任し、2014年の選挙において、偽名での違法献金と、偽証により有罪判決を受けたが、２０１８年にトランプに恩赦された、という華麗な経歴の持ち主である、ディニス・デスーザから
「（タナダーは）インドにいたら、間違いなく事務職員やウェイターとかしかできないけど、多様性によって生き残ってきた。ヘタクソな英語を話したり、字が読めなかったりすることが、左翼界隈では好ましい形質と言われている。こういうやつをこの国では少なくする必要がある」と批判された。
その反応としてタナダーの息子が、「俺の父は、複数の会社で働きながら、18で大学を卒業し、アメリカで事業を立て、何百人ものアメリカ人を雇用し、議員になった。一方あなたはただの犯罪者ですよね。」と切り返していたのが面白かった。
なおデスーザは自身でフィクションと認めているいくつかの陰謀論ドキュメンタリー映画を作成し、大きな批判を集めているが、いくつかはFODなどで視聴可能で、日本のトランパーたちも大歓迎で見ている様子、予想を裏切らない（2000mulesなど）。あたりまえだけど精神が汚染されるので見ないほうがいい。
アル・グリーンはトランプ就任演説をやじり続け、退場させられ、問責決議を受けた人物。ヤジには思うところはある人もいるだろうが、トランプの行動をみて、チャック・シューマーのように黙りこくっているのとどちらがよいと思うだろうね。
まぁそれはよいとして、トランプは、例によって罵詈雑言を投げつけているが、注意すべき点は、議員の追放に言及していることだろう。
Perhaps we should start playing this game on them, and expel Democrats for the many crimes that they have committed.
ちなみに大体こんなことをいっている。
「2人の無名で尊敬もされていなない、仕事のできない議員が、またドナルド・J・トランプの弾劾とか言い出した。もう20回目ぐらいだろう。あいつらは何が弾劾に値するかも知りもしない。これは第一期の時からの民主党のお決まりのやり方だ。共和党はこういったことを二度とできないようにするべきだ。おそらく、我々はあいつらとのゲームを始めるべきだ、そして、民主党員が行った、多数の犯罪に応じて、あいつらを追放するべきなんだろう」
まぁ批判してくるやつを議会から追放せよ、というのは思ったとしても口に出してはいけないと思うのが議会人というものだが、トランプにそんなものを期待してはいけないし、トランプがクソなのはみんな知っている。
まぁ夢見がちな人々としては、いつか共和党が正気を取り戻し、どうしようもなくなった時にはトランプの弾劾に乗っかってくれるのでは？と思ったりするよね。まぁそんなことは起こらないだろう。ペンスはじめ、まだ頭がまともな共和党員が多くいた時とはもう違う。
4月29日、下院は、迅速な議事進行のためとして議員規則にとあるルールを追加した。
Provides that each day during the period from April 29, 2025, through September 30, 2025, shall not constitute a legislative day for purposes of clause 7 of rule XIII.
アメリカには不文律が多くあり、議会運営も法律ではなく、議会規則によってなされており、基本的に議会の専権事項になっている、だから議会が決めたことを裁判所なりが、何にも言うことはできない。それを踏まえて考えてほしい。
一つは召喚決議、もうひとつが照会決議だ。日本の国会でいう、国政調査権に相当する。
召喚決議は、各委員会の過半数で実施され、政府要人等の証人を呼び、証言を強制させられる（不出頭は議会侮辱罪になる）強力なもので、過半数が必要なことからわかるように、与党は自身の不利なものには使わない。当然トリプルレッドの現状では、起こることはない。
照会決議は、1人から要求ができる、召喚決議に先立って行われる、文書や証言の提出を求める、議会の情報収集のために行われる手段。実際には決議しても多数派が握っているので、実施されないことのほうが多いわけだが、少なくとも、提出議員は、委員会がその決議を不採択にしたとしても、本会議にて、議論をする時間が用意されるわけで、与党としても、何らかの説明をせねばならなくなってしまう。
今回ピート・ヘグセスが、閣僚だけでなく、家族にも攻撃情報を漏らしていた、というシグナルゲート第二弾が巻き起こり、共和党はヘグセスを擁護することが難しくなってしまった。そもそも、彼らの言では、シグナルを使ってもよい、というのはあれは機密情報じゃないから、なわけだが、家族に漏らした、となると、業務上の情報を漏らしているわけで、機密でなくても問題になってしまう。またシグナルゲートについては、共和党支持者でも7割程度が問題だと思っているとの世論調査があり、話題にすらしたくないわけ。
そこで登場したのが、
Provides that each day during the period from April 29, 2025, through September 30, 2025, shall not constitute a legislative day for purposes of clause 7 of rule XIII.
2025年4月29日から同年9月30日までの各日は、下院規則第十三条第７項（照会決議に関する規定）を適用するうえでの「議会日」とはみなさないものとする
何のことかわからないと思うが、照会決議とは、強力な調査権なので、
①提出→②委員会で14議会日以内に「賛否報告」→③本会議で採決
という流れになっており、否決された場合でも本会議で議論するチャンスがある。
要は委員会でせっかく否決しても、目立つ場所で、「こんな大事なことを調査しないなんてどういうつもりなのか？」となじられてしまうわけ。
共和党はそれが嫌だったとみえて、ちょっとした発明を今回行った。時計を止めたのだ。
議会日は、カレンダー日とは違い、議会が「今日は議会が開いている日だよ」という形で決まる。カウントが始まってしまえば、承認されようが、否決されようが、無視を決め込もうが、委員会に報告せねばならない。だから「照会決議については時計を進めないことにしました」と言っているわけ。すごいよね、恥知らずぶりが。
We’re using the rules of the House to prevent political hijinks and stunts … we don’t have time to waste.”
（我々は、このルールを使って政治的パフォーマンスを防いでいるのです、無意味な時間の浪費は避けねばなりません。）
以下にこれを受けてNPRがアダム・スミス下院議員に行ったインタビュー。要はそういうことなんだよ。
「火曜日、調査を強制しようとあなたが権限を行使したとき、下院共和党は何をしたのですか？」
「彼らは照会決議を審議させないルールを通してしまいました。要するに民主的プロセスを台無しにしたんです。トランプ政権はあらゆる場面で手続きを変えて、通常の公開討論を許さないようにしてきました。今回もまさにその一環です。本質的問題もあるし、手続きの問題もあります。今回の件は共和党は”この問題を恐れていて、擁護できないから議論させない”ということに尽きる。国防総省を監視する議会の本来の役割を阻んでいるんです。Signalアプリ問題を見てもわかる通り、ヘグセス長官のやり方は本当に危険で、きちんと監視しなければなりません。」
インスキープ
「これは一つは制度的な問題でもあります。議会は行政から独立して監視と抑制を行う役割がありますよね。もう一つは“下院多数派”の問題で、彼らはできる限り有利に運営したいわけです。民主党が多数派だったとき、民主党は共和党からの調査要求を歓迎していましたか？」
「歓迎なんてしていません。でも、少数党にも発言権を保証する制度がある。それが代議制民主主義なんです。多数派は最終的に票が多ければ勝ちますが、少数派の声も必ず聞く仕組みを作っておくのが憲法設計の趣旨です。結局負けるにしても、議論の機会だけは与える──それが国民に声を届けるということです。」
インスキープ
「今や共和党は議論の機会そのものを排除しようとしていますね。軍事委員会で1500億ドルの追加予算を与えた一方で、Signal問題をめぐる一連の修正案や討論も一切認めず、全て退けたと。擁護のしようがないから話をさせない──そういうことですか？」
「そうです。最終的には投票で決めればいい。でも彼らはその前に討論さえさせたくない。まるで『この問題は存在しない』かのように扱う。これではアメリカの代議制民主主義とは言えません。議論も討論も許さずに進めるのは、自らの機能を自殺的に放棄しているようなものです。」
インスキープ
「つまり、今回は議会が大統領や政権とつながった多数派の都合で、本来の抑制役を自ら奪っている──そう主張されるわけですね？」
「まさにその通りです。前例のない事態です。最終的には彼らが票で勝てばそれでいい。でも議論を封じ込め、声を上げる機会を奪うのは異常です。みなさん、これがどういう意味か、本気で憂慮すべきだと思います。」
共和党議員の中でホンモノのMAGAはまぁ3割くらいと思うが、共和党自体が腐っているので、自浄なんか期待できるわけがない。この流れで彼らが生き残る唯一の方法は、まともな選挙をやらないことだよ。それはトランプにも、共和党議員にも利がある話。中間選挙ででっかい青い波が起きて、弾劾されようものなら、止められていた「公務外なのかどうか問題」が再燃してトランプはおそらく破滅するし、共和党員ももちろん選挙で勝てない。なので、まともに中間選挙をさせないための方策をいろいろ考えて手を打っていて、こういう監視機能の停止や、地方への軍の展開、要人の逮捕の脅しなどは連動してると思ったほうがいいと考えている。修正第二条信奉者よ、いま武器を取らずしていつとるんだい？（MAGAと被ってるだろうから当然取らないわけだが）
ChatGPTでも最初の一文にはお手上げの模様
この文章を英語に翻訳してください 責任転嫁する性別大概にしろよ チンカス政治家の代わりに30年以上停滞させた責任とってハラキリしろ産業廃棄物め ChatGPT "Take responsibility for shifting blame, regardless of gender. Instead of blaming others, take responsibility for the over 30 years of stagnation caused by incompetent politicians and commit hara-kiri, you industrial waste."
んー色々
dotがあったけど、つながなかったし
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
I'm so tired!
Actually, it was the beginning that I was asked to talk about acting on behalf of Netares
I didn't really talk about it ←
I won't waste your kindness, so I'm going to challenge myself with a trendy story
Here are some messages for Madoka and others.
Madoka: Everyone, thank you for watching
I was able to see some darkness, but do n’t mind! "
Was my cuteness conveyed enough? "
Mami: “I ’m happy to see you but I ’m a little embarrassed…”
Kyoko: Thank you for watching!
To be honest, my feelings in the work are true! "
Homura "Thank you" Fusa
Then
Madoka, Sayaka, Mami, Kyoko, Homura, I “Thank you all!”
End
Madoka, Sayaka, Mami, Kyoko, Homura “Why are you?
Real really end
マブロポロス氏は非営利団体「国際固形廃棄物協会（International Solid Waste Association）」の会長を務めており、事故当日はナイロビで開催された国連環境計画（UNEP）の年次会議に出席する予定だったという。
しかしマブロポロス氏が搭乗口に到着したのはゲートが閉まってから2分後だった。その後に続くフライトを予約したが、空港職員は搭乗しようとした同氏を空港内の警察署に向かわせた。
マブロポロス氏は「警官が私に抗議せずに神に祈れと言った。なぜなら私は墜落したET302便に乗らなかったただ一人の乗客だったからだ」と、ショックをあらわにして述べた。マブロポロス氏が搭乗しなかった唯一の乗客だったため、身元の照合や搭乗しなかった理由などを職務質問する必要があったと空港当局は説明した。その後同氏は解放された。
そこには全てのタスクを「やるべき/やるべきでない」「やりたい/やりたくない」の２軸で４つの区画に分けるという整理法が書いてあった
やるべきでやりたいことは誰でもやるし、やるべきでなくやりたくないことは時間の無駄
だから残りの２つをどうバランスしていくかが人生に差を付けるのだ、みたいな内容だった
ごく当たり前で、言われなくても誰でも知ってるわと言いたくなる、非常に無駄な文章だと思っていた
ところが最近になってふと思い出した時、この整理法の価値が違う意味で増してきた
自分は「やるべきでもやりたくもない」ことばかりやっていた
スマホゲーやったり、楽しくない楽器練習を続けたり、こうして増田に貼りついたり
それでなんだか目が覚めたような気がした
思えば最初は「やるべきでないが、やりたいこと」だったものがほとんどだった
いつの間にか自分の中でその価値が減衰して、惰性で続けているだけの「時間の無駄」に成り下がっていた
ただ一番の悩みは、こうした惰性に人生が支配され続け過ぎた結果、真に「やりたいこと」がひとつも残ってなくて、結局惰性をやめられないことだ
I'm really glad for them. The truth is, I thought that falling in love when you knew you'd have to part seemed pointless.But when I saw them together, I was happy from the bottom of my heart. Maybe worrying about future parting so much that you miss out on happiness in the present is waste.
Yes, Someday, we'll part. Maybe be forgotten. But we're living in the moment in full throttle!
「共謀罪」と「犯罪のもみ消し」の親和性~権力犯罪の隠蔽も容易となる共謀罪~ : 東京法律事務所blog http://blog.livedoor.jp/tokyolaw/archives/1066080724.html
日本は今、戦争に対応するための法整備をしているように見えます。
アジアを分断して、各国の力を弱めておけば、欧米はアジアを管理しやすいでしょう。
アジア人が歴史から何も学ばなければ、アジア人同士が戦争を起こすように欧米から煽られます。
幸い、日本では「移動の自由」が保障されています。（憲法２２条）
アジアで戦争が起きても、安全を確保できるように、海外にも生活拠点を確保しておきたいです。
日本の富裕層は、シンガポールなど海外にも住居を確保して、和僑（在外日本人）のネットワークを築いています。
日本が再び戦争に突入したら、国民は「お国のために命を捧げましょう」と洗脳されるでしょう。
楽観的な人は、何もしないで今のまま暮らせば良いのかも？
（アリとキリギリス）
Japan seems to be doing legal preparetion to respond to the war now.
I think that the war between Japan and China is the established policy.
Number one in dollar holding country is China and number 2 is Japan.
If China and Japan war, we will waste a lot of dollars.
The dollar managers can collect dollars from Japan and China.
The history of Asia is the history of trampling by Western countries.
If All asian countries cooperate, they can make the powerful area in Asia.
If Asia is devided the Asia is weaken, and they are easier to manage by Western countries.
If Asians do not learn anything from history, Asians are encouraged to war with each other.
Fortunately, "freedom of movement" is guaranteed in Japan. (Article 22 of the Constitution)
For the preparetion of Asian war, we should get the house residence overseas to ensure safety.
The rich people in Japan have already get residence overseas and build the network of Japanese. (ex. in the Singapore)
If Japan go into war again, the people will be brainwashed, "Let's give your life for the sake of our country."
If you do not obey government orders, then you will be arrested as a non-citizen.
Maybe an optimistic person should live as it is without doing anything?
"The secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons." by Oprah Winfrey, Stanford 2008
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
Full Transcript: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFWKenyonAddress2005.pdf
The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it. This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELC_e2QBQMk
Transcript: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~commence/news/speeches/2011/obrien-speech.html
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
or, "Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you."
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmavNoChZc
Transcript: http://www.businessinsider.com/we-are-what-we-choose-2010-6
"Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given, after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices."
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRPesTumlA
or, "You need to make more courageous choices. Take courageous risks."
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfxYhtf8o4
Transcript: http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/18720284/2012/06/06/full-transcript-youre-not-special-speech
And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
You're not special. Because everyone is.
Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JccudODwwY
Transcript: http://gradspeeches.com/2009/2009/ellen-degeneres
"If you don’t remember a thing I said today, remember this, you’re going to be ok, dum de dumdumdum, just dance.
or, "the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrityand not to give into peer pressure to try to be something that you’re not, to live your life as an honest and compassionate person, to contribute in some way. So to conclude my conclusion, follow your passion, stay true to yourself. "
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Transcript: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Chris Anderson: Elon, how have you done this? These projects are so -- Paypal, SolarCity, Tesla, SpaceX, they're so spectacularly different, they're such ambitious projects at scale. How on Earth has one person been able to innovate in this way? What is it about you?
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Elon Musk: I don't know, actually. I don't have a good answer for you. I work a lot. I mean, a lot.
Transcript: http://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_mind_behind_tesla_spacex_solarcity/transcript?language=en
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When the diesel generators were gone, the reactor operators switched to emergency battery power. The batteries were designed as one of the backups to the backups, to provide power for cooling the core for 8 hours. And they did.
Within the 8 hours, another power source had to be found and connected to the power plant. The power grid was down due to the earthquake. The diesel generators were destroyed by the tsunami. So mobile diesel generators were trucked in.
This is where things started to go seriously wrong. The external power generators could not be connected to the power plant (the plugs did not fit). So after the batteries ran out, the residual heat could not be carried away any more.
At this point the plant operators begin to follow emergency procedures that are in place for a “loss of cooling event”. It is again a step along the “Depth of Defense” lines. The power to the cooling systems should never have failed completely, but it did, so they “retreat” to the next line of defense. All of this, however shocking it seems to us, is part of the day-to-day training you go through as an operator, right through to managing a core meltdown.
It was at this stage that people started to talk about core meltdown. Because at the end of the day, if cooling cannot be restored, the core will eventually melt (after hours or days), and the last line of defense, the core catcher and third containment, would come into play.
But the goal at this stage was to manage the core while it was heating up, and ensure that the first containment (the Zircaloy tubes that contains the nuclear fuel), as well as the second containment (our pressure cooker) remain intact and operational for as long as possible, to give the engineers time to fix the cooling systems.
Because cooling the core is such a big deal, the reactor has a number of cooling systems, each in multiple versions (the reactor water cleanup system, the decay heat removal, the reactor core isolating cooling, the standby liquid cooling system, and the emergency core cooling system). Which one failed when or did not fail is not clear at this point in time.
So imagine our pressure cooker on the stove, heat on low, but on. The operators use whatever cooling system capacity they have to get rid of as much heat as possible, but the pressure starts building up. The priority now is to maintain integrity of the first containment (keep temperature of the fuel rods below 2200°C), as well as the second containment, the pressure cooker. In order to maintain integrity of the pressure cooker (the second containment), the pressure has to be released from time to time. Because the ability to do that in an emergency is so important, the reactor has 11 pressure release valves. The operators now started venting steam from time to time to control the pressure. The temperature at this stage was about 550°C.
This is when the reports about “radiation leakage” starting coming in. I believe I explained above why venting the steam is theoretically the same as releasing radiation into the environment, but why it was and is not dangerous. The radioactive nitrogen as well as the noble gases do not pose a threat to human health.
At some stage during this venting, the explosion occurred. The explosion took place outside of the third containment (our “last line of defense”), and the reactor building. Remember that the reactor building has no function in keeping the radioactivity contained. It is not entirely clear yet what has happened, but this is the likely scenario: The operators decided to vent the steam from the pressure vessel not directly into the environment, but into the space between the third containment and the reactor building (to give the radioactivity in the steam more time to subside). The problem is that at the high temperatures that the core had reached at this stage, water molecules can “disassociate” into oxygen and hydrogen – an explosive mixture. And it did explode, outside the third containment, damaging the reactor building around. It was that sort of explosion, but inside the pressure vessel (because it was badly designed and not managed properly by the operators) that lead to the explosion of Chernobyl. This was never a risk at Fukushima. The problem of hydrogen-oxygen formation is one of the biggies when you design a power plant (if you are not Soviet, that is), so the reactor is build and operated in a way it cannot happen inside the containment. It happened outside, which was not intended but a possible scenario and OK, because it did not pose a risk for the containment.
So the pressure was under control, as steam was vented. Now, if you keep boiling your pot, the problem is that the water level will keep falling and falling. The core is covered by several meters of water in order to allow for some time to pass (hours, days) before it gets exposed. Once the rods start to be exposed at the top, the exposed parts will reach the critical temperature of 2200 °C after about 45 minutes. This is when the first containment, the Zircaloy tube, would fail.
And this started to happen. The cooling could not be restored before there was some (very limited, but still) damage to the casing of some of the fuel. The nuclear material itself was still intact, but the surrounding Zircaloy shell had started melting. What happened now is that some of the byproducts of the uranium decay – radioactive Cesium and Iodine – started to mix with the steam. The big problem, uranium, was still under control, because the uranium oxide rods were good until 3000 °C. It is confirmed that a very small amount of Cesium and Iodine was measured in the steam that was released into the atmosphere.
It seems this was the “go signal” for a major plan B. The small amounts of Cesium that were measured told the operators that the first containment on one of the rods somewhere was about to give. The Plan A had been to restore one of the regular cooling systems to the core. Why that failed is unclear. One plausible explanation is that the tsunami also took away / polluted all the clean water needed for the regular cooling systems.
The water used in the cooling system is very clean, demineralized (like distilled) water. The reason to use pure water is the above mentioned activation by the neutrons from the Uranium: Pure water does not get activated much, so stays practically radioactive-free. Dirt or salt in the water will absorb the neutrons quicker, becoming more radioactive. This has no effect whatsoever on the core – it does not care what it is cooled by. But it makes life more difficult for the operators and mechanics when they have to deal with activated (i.e. slightly radioactive) water.
But Plan A had failed – cooling systems down or additional clean water unavailable – so Plan B came into effect. This is what it looks like happened:
In order to prevent a core meltdown, the operators started to use sea water to cool the core. I am not quite sure if they flooded our pressure cooker with it (the second containment), or if they flooded the third containment, immersing the pressure cooker. But that is not relevant for us.
The point is that the nuclear fuel has now been cooled down. Because the chain reaction has been stopped a long time ago, there is only very little residual heat being produced now. The large amount of cooling water that has been used is sufficient to take up that heat. Because it is a lot of water, the core does not produce sufficient heat any more to produce any significant pressure. Also, boric acid has been added to the seawater. Boric acid is “liquid control rod”. Whatever decay is still going on, the Boron will capture the neutrons and further speed up the cooling down of the core.
The plant came close to a core meltdown. Here is the worst-case scenario that was avoided: If the seawater could not have been used for treatment, the operators would have continued to vent the water steam to avoid pressure buildup. The third containment would then have been completely sealed to allow the core meltdown to happen without releasing radioactive material. After the meltdown, there would have been a waiting period for the intermediate radioactive materials to decay inside the reactor, and all radioactive particles to settle on a surface inside the containment. The cooling system would have been restored eventually, and the molten core cooled to a manageable temperature. The containment would have been cleaned up on the inside. Then a messy job of removing the molten core from the containment would have begun, packing the (now solid again) fuel bit by bit into transportation containers to be shipped to processing plants. Depending on the damage, the block of the plant would then either be repaired or dismantled.
Now, where does that leave us?
・The plant is safe now and will stay safe.
・Japan is looking at an INES Level 4 Accident: Nuclear accident with local consequences. That is bad for the company that owns the plant, but not for anyone else.
・Some radiation was released when the pressure vessel was vented. All radioactive isotopes from the activated steam have gone (decayed). A very small amount of Cesium was released, as well as Iodine. If you were sitting on top of the plants’ chimney when they were venting, you should probably give up smoking to return to your former life expectancy. The Cesium and Iodine isotopes were carried out to the sea and will never be seen again.
・There was some limited damage to the first containment. That means that some amounts of radioactive Cesium and Iodine will also be released into the cooling water, but no Uranium or other nasty stuff (the Uranium oxide does not “dissolve” in the water). There are facilities for treating the cooling water inside the third containment. The radioactive Cesium and Iodine will be removed there and eventually stored as radioactive waste in terminal storage.
・The seawater used as cooling water will be activated to some degree. Because the control rods are fully inserted, the Uranium chain reaction is not happening. That means the “main” nuclear reaction is not happening, thus not contributing to the activation. The intermediate radioactive materials (Cesium and Iodine) are also almost gone at this stage, because the Uranium decay was stopped a long time ago. This further reduces the activation. The bottom line is that there will be some low level of activation of the seawater, which will also be removed by the treatment facilities.
・The seawater will then be replaced over time with the “normal” cooling water
・The reactor core will then be dismantled and transported to a processing facility, just like during a regular fuel change.
・Fuel rods and the entire plant will be checked for potential damage. This will take about 4-5 years.
・The safety systems on all Japanese plants will be upgraded to withstand a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami (or worse)
・I believe the most significant problem will be a prolonged power shortage. About half of Japan’s nuclear reactors will probably have to be inspected, reducing the nation’s power generating capacity by 15%. This will probably be covered by running gas power plants that are usually only used for peak loads to cover some of the base load as well. That will increase your electricity bill, as well as lead to potential power shortages during peak demand, in Japan.
If you want to stay informed, please forget the usual media outlets and consult the following websites:
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Battle_to_stabilise_earthquake_reactors_1203111.html
http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/12/japan-nuclear-earthquake/
http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2011/03/11/media-updates-on-nuclear-power-stations-in-japan/
[Defend Japan]
Very easy work only to operate the cellular phone sitting on the sofa.
Place : "Child treatment application window" at public office.
Working hours : Flex time system.
Content : You watch the "Child treatment application window". If there is an applicant who cannot present the foreign resident' registration card, You take the person's photograph and notify the police.
Reward : When the object person is an illegal, you can obtain the reward. 1000 - 50,000 yen.
Comment : This honorable work prevents the tax from flowing out outside the country.
[Additional]
Place, Working hours : same as above.
Content : If applicant's nationality is China and if target are two or more children, you may inform Chinese Embassy.
Reward : You cannot obtain the reward, but you can decrease the waste of the tax.
Comment : You may prevents inapposite application.
