Founds...

"What's the crack?" In Dundee...!

 

  

 

 

Chill out! Now? Yes! Another foundation in for another HANSE HAUS, this time in Dundee.

That slab was done very well and in time under what was severe time pressure and lots of site restrictions thanks to the company Total Build Team Ltd., Peter Carnegie "and friends": Well done! Thank you for the hard, precise and neat, noiseless and reliable work to all involved in that enterprise; this was your second slab for a HANSE HAUS and when I say we are looking forward to be working on further projects all over Scotland it says it all, doesn't it?

It seems to me pride is returning into Scottish craftsmanship!

Thank you!

More?

Yes: next stop next week: wind and water tight!


Carpe diem!

Fukushima!

...apocalyptic:

Day to day events and the jobs' pressures, mainstream's constant bread and games irrigation, floods of hard to differentiate pseudo-news mixed with unbelievable acts under UK's terrorist laws easily help (us) to forget and avoid the real problems. One being Fukushima!

I came across the article in RT: Fukushima apocalypse:Years of `duct tape fixes` could result in `millions of deaths`:

- The racks inside the pool that contain this fuel were damaged by the explosion in the early days of the accident. 
- Zirconium cladding which encased the rods burned when water levels dropped, but to what extent the rods have been damaged is not known, and probably won't be until removal is attempted. 
- Saltwater cooling has caused corrosion of the pool walls, and probably the fuel rods and racks. 
- The building is sinking. 
- The cranes that normally lift the fuel were destroyed. 
- Computer-guided removal will not be possible; everything will have to be done manually. 
- TEPCO cannot attempt this process without humans, which will manage this enormous task while being bombarded with radiation during the extraction and casking. 
- The process of removing each rod will have to be repeated over 1,300 times without incident. 
- Moving damaged nuclear fuel under such complex conditions could result in a criticality if the rods come into close proximity to one another, which would then set off a chain reaction that cannot be stopped.

At Fukushima, they are dealing with massive amounts of groundwater that flow through the property, and the endless pouring that must be kept up 24/7/365 to keep things from getting worse. Recently there appears to be subsidence issues and liquefaction under the plant.

Liquefaction is explained here; just the same like pouring water into a sand-box when we were children. Only, in this case this is lots of water, contaminated, into grounds known to shake constantly and there are swimming pools full of nuclear fuel rods waiting to take a dip and melt back to where they came from... if not that one earthquake strikes first.

It would be interesting to hear and read from alternative sources about the situation in Fukushima. Fukushima Diary is one: a desperate voice.


Any more?

Carpe diem!