GO HERE and click on “Watch Webcast”

Today will be better than yesterday, for me at least.

And check out Goodhue Wind Truth’s site for info on this project.

Oh my, was it nuclear or what?  My server went down and was down almost all day Monday, WTF?  Meanwhile, despite that, stats were higher than E-V-E-R!  Go figure.

Meanwhile, my own technical difficulties were debilitation, couldn’t talk, and the Goodhue hearing yesterday was a disaster.  Today will be better, thanks to modern medicine.

Fukushima Reactor 3 blows…

March 13th, 2011

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New Explosion at Japan nuclear facility – CBS News

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BOOM!

Oh great… I dug through my pile o’ mail and found our voucher to get potassium iodide — we can get it at the Target here in Red Wing or in Cottage Grove.  Now I feel safe… right… life in a nuclear town.

Three injured, seven missing after explosion at nuclear plant

Hydrogen explosion rocks Japan nuclear facility…

Are people getting how serious this is?  Two reactors melting down?

Below, yesterday’s blast — today’s was much the same:

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Notice of Motion and Motion – Limit Public Participation and Exclude Intervenor Exhibits

HA!  Over my dead polar bear!  This “public participation” piece is one of “my” issues, so much so that I proposed some changes in my Rulemaking Petition to OAH:

Overland – Petition for Rulemaking – OAH

To see the full docket, go to www.puc.state.mn.us, click on “Search eDockets” and search for 08-1233.

CATCH THE WEBCAST TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY:

GO HERE and click the blue “Watch Webcast” button!

And here are their Information Request responses — can’t email these around, too big, so I’ll have to post them!

Enjoy!

AWA Responses to GWT Info Requests – No. 2-12 Part I

AWA Responses to GWT Info Requests No. 2-12 Part 2a

AWA Responses to GWT Info Requests Nos 2-12 Part 2b

AWA Responses to GWT Info Requests Nos 13-35

AWA Responses to GWT Info Requests Nos 36-45

AWA Response to Belle Creek Info Request 2

AWA Response to Belle Creek Info Request 3

AWA Response to Goodhue County Info Request No 3

AWA Resposne to CSS Info Request 1

AWA Response to CSS Info Request No 2

AWA Response to CSS Info Request No 3

AWA Response to CSS Info Request No 4

One suggestion of the fallout path from Beyond Nuclear and Australian Radiation Service:
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Meltdown caused nuclear plant explosion: Saftey Body

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BOOM!  Here we go… explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. I write this as I’m sitting here in Red Wing, near two nuclear reactors (which are built not far from a fault in downtown Red Wing), and in Delaware with the THREE Salem and Hope Creek reactors just across the Delaware River, this is NOT what I want to see.  Our reliance on nuclear power, Minnesota’s recent repeal of our nuclear moratorium, HOW STUPID CAN WE BE?  That this would happen in Japan makes it even worse.

At issue are the following nuclear plants (from NIRS fact sheet, linked below):

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Regarding the map above, Michael Mariotte of NIRS claims the numbers are way off, that as it is “there would be no increased radiation in the United States, however, these wind patterns and increased levels would come into play in the event that the core melts down.” (emphasis added) …but folks, that’s what the map says, M-E-L-T-D-O-W-N! Here’s NIRS’ info about this:

NIRS Factsheet

Last night in the STrib there was a quote from some nuclear muck-a-muck noting the high radiation levels in the plant and saying, “I sure wouldn’t want to be in there now.”  Every nuclear worker, every CEO, officers, board of every company making money on that plant better be there dealing with it first hand, it’s their moral obligation.

Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant – BBC

Behind the Hydrogen Explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant

Radiation leaks from Japan’s quake-hit nuclear plant

Seawater used to cool reactor

Below, a transformer fire at the plant, prior to the explosion:
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