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A Busy Day
Mar. 15th, 2011 04:13 pmSo, the cutoff for people and items for my Rotary club's one and only charity auction was this past Friday. What happened at the meeting today? I got handed lists of people and items. Just call me the cat herder.
Moving on, it's been a busy day in the news. First, in Japan, I'm hearing that the radiation leak at Fukishima is 100mSv/h (100,000 uSv) near Unit-4. For those more familiar with REMs, that's around 40 REM / hour. It's not "drop dead from radiation sickness" levels but it's most assuredly "leave now!" levels. From what I understand, we're still lucky in that the wind is blowing to the sea and that this is gas, not longer-lived particle radiation. Nonetheless, the situation is Most Not Good.
ETA: for my own reference, the IAEA news feed and a handy online converter of Sieverts to REMs.
On the other side of the world comes reports that an organization called the "Free Libyan Air Force" attacked and sank Libyan ships and bombed an airfield. Presumably this new Air Force is composed of defectors and planes from Gaddafi's air force.
How big or how effective this unit is, or even if it's really Libyan (or really real and not just some bad information) is unclear. But it does add another wrinkle to imposing a no-fly zone on what's clearly becoming a good-ole-fashioned civil war.
Moving on, it's been a busy day in the news. First, in Japan, I'm hearing that the radiation leak at Fukishima is 100mSv/h (100,000 uSv) near Unit-4. For those more familiar with REMs, that's around 40 REM / hour. It's not "drop dead from radiation sickness" levels but it's most assuredly "leave now!" levels. From what I understand, we're still lucky in that the wind is blowing to the sea and that this is gas, not longer-lived particle radiation. Nonetheless, the situation is Most Not Good.
ETA: for my own reference, the IAEA news feed and a handy online converter of Sieverts to REMs.
On the other side of the world comes reports that an organization called the "Free Libyan Air Force" attacked and sank Libyan ships and bombed an airfield. Presumably this new Air Force is composed of defectors and planes from Gaddafi's air force.
How big or how effective this unit is, or even if it's really Libyan (or really real and not just some bad information) is unclear. But it does add another wrinkle to imposing a no-fly zone on what's clearly becoming a good-ole-fashioned civil war.
