iPod iChing: That Was The Week That Was

ok, lets try not to have another week like this one for a while...

so, iPod, given what there was, what do we do now?

Whoosh goes the iPod.
Whoosh.

  • The Covering: Accident Waiting to Happen - Billy Bragg
  • The Crossing: Capital Radio (Live) - Clash
  • The Crown: Good Timin' - Beach Boys
  • The Root: Kick Out The Jams (Live) - Pearl Jam
  • The Past: Við Gróttu - Stríð og Friður
  • The Future: Melbourne Mambo - Mavericks
  • The Questioner: Lovers Town Revisited - Billy Bragg
  • The House: Can't Stand Losing You - Police
  • The Inside: Talkin' Bout A Revolution - Tracy Chapman
  • The Outcome: Hello Mr Heartache - Dixie Chicks

"Good good timin'
Good good timin'
Ahhhh Ahhhh
You need good timin'
Good good timin'"

Future looks fascinating...?!?

The Questioner:
"Fighting in the dance halls happens anyway
Sometimes it makes me stop and think
Sometimes it makes me turn away
Sometimes it makes me stop and think
Sometimes it makes me turn away
Sometimes it makes me stop and think
But most times it makes me run away"

short, sweet and to the point

The House, oh dear...

The Inside: oh, iPod you are scaring me now...
"Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you know they're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper"

The Outcome

As always, the Key as explained by Sean

The Root:

The Past:

"the Earth, revolves around the Sun, just like I do..."

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Steinn,

At least you didn't get "London Calling."

Given your interests in reactors and policy I am curious to hear what you think about the Japanese emergency. I just read that they are attempting to cool the cores with boron-laced seawater (which they are injecting with "firefighting equipment" ?!! according to the Times). It seems to me that resorting to this means the situation is desperate - among other things, introducing salt water into the core must mean completely giving up maintaining the integrity of the fuel rods and cladding.

Between being way too busy, and crisis fatigue, I have not been able to put much coherent stuff together.

I actually did some kibbitzing on Mark I BWRs on CR last night, maybe I'll put something together here.

Basically, yeah, the cores have broken rods and lost primary coolant. Don't have enough info to know if scramming failed (too slow?) and if any parts of the core still have criticality.

This is a bit worse than Three Mile Island, but likely pretty mild in terms of probable public health impact.
Bad psychology though.