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jueves, 18 de septiembre de 2014

MURMURATION: THE AMAZING DANCE OF STARLINGS (STURNUS VULGARIS)

Earth never ceases to talk to us. 
It is just that we do not want to listen.

Here is one of her miracles:
A flock of Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) and its amazing acrobatic flight before perching for the night.



Murmuration from Islands & Rivers on Vimeo.


For more information on "Murmuration", click HERE.


Traducción:

Murmuración: La Danza Increíble de los Estorninos (Sturnus vulgaris)

La Tierra nunca cesa de hablarnos.
Es sólo que nosotros no queremos escucharla.

Aquí está uno de sus milagros:
Una bandada de Estorninos (Sturnus vulgaris
y su increíble vuelo acrobático antes de posarse para pasar la noche.

lunes, 15 de septiembre de 2014

NUCLEAR PLANTS ARE NOT BUILT TO LAST FOREVER: REACTOR HAZARDS AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE

Source: Greepeace.


By Gundhramns Hammer
September 15, 2014
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No nuclear plant can be made to last forever. They are really short-lived structures. The average age of the world's reactors is 21 years (Hirsch et al. (2005).

Thus, sooner or later a nuclear plant becomes not only a potential but a real danger to any human population (Video 1). 


Video 1. The Fukushima nuclear accident.


  
No matter what they tell us that is safe in order to sell it, for it is a business like any other done for profit, this technology is within the bounds of human error and as such it will always contain, according to Hirsch et al. (2005), inherent safety flaws which cannot be eliminated by performing safety upgrading when needed. 

On top of that, any nuclear power plant is really a cracking machine producing dangerous radioactive waste (Video 2). What the fuck do we do with it?




 Video 2. Underground storage of nuclear waste: A problem for future generations of earthlings.




Despite the fact that no nuclear plant can ever be 100% secured from any attack, nevertheless we must also take into consideration the security of this facility. 

And in today´s unstable political world, nuclear plants may become a target for a terrorist wanting to blow it up. 

Here are the big problems.


Read more:

Hirsch H., Becker O., Schneider M. & Froggatt A. (2005). Nuclear Reactor Hazards: Ongoing Dangers of Operating Nuclear Technology in the 21st Century. Greenpeace International. 128 p.