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1 Mar, 10 tweets, 3 min read
doing some research and this is a horrifying bit of graphic design
"Neighbors"
hype
print on demand I guess
I would like to know whether this is up-to-date but I can't find a publication date anywhere
gotta prep for my lecture this afternoon so switching my morning reading to Fukushima chronology, but I am coming back to this ಠ_ಠ later
how DO you protect your crops from radioactive fallout?
mmhmm
does "functional needs" include not owning a car? because (as I was informed by @mikedouton) there is no evacuation plan that doesn't involve driving.
I don't know if I'm projecting but I can't help finding it slightly sinister that they don't say what they will DO about the people who return the confidential registration form. Send a car around, presumably, but...

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Doctora Malka Older Profile picture
1 Mar
Later today I'm giving a talk on Fukushima Dai-Ichi as part of @UniLeiden's very cool semester-long study of a crisis, with different sector-area specialists invited to talk. I'm in mainly because of this report I co-wrote years ago for @suretenucleaire
irsn.fr/FR/expertise/r…
so as I prep here are a few details about the unfolding of the crisis you may not be familiar with
The operators, and the rest of the plant, did not know right away that a tsunami had hit. How would they know? They were in windowless rooms and communications were down or jammed because of the earthquake.
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25 Feb
The article doesn't explain why the system is vulnerable in this way, but the situation reminds me of my research on the Fukushima Dai-Ichi accident, when operators were desperately trying to connect to grid electricity to cool the stricken plant before meltdown.
I would like to understand why this is the case in the electricity network and whether it's possible to mitigate it, but in the case of FD1, I think many people believe the tsunami damaged the nuclear reactors directly. it didn't. The reactors scrammed correctly and stopped.
They needed to be cooled safely after that. But the earthquake had knocked out a grid connection, and the tsunami had (famously) damaged the emergency generators.
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Doctora Malka Older Profile picture
24 Feb
I take one day off a week, in which I do not let myself "work" (I DO do housework, which is a whole separate conversation). It's a practice, and something that I chose consciously to try to get better at not working.
And I really enjoy my work (at least, parts of it). But I don't let myself write on that day, even for fun. I usually come back with more ideas and energy for writing afterwards. And if I don't particularly that's also okay!
one day a week is not a lot to take off from work, but I don't work 9-to-5 on most days either.
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24 Feb
I know nobody wants to wears masks all the time, but in Japan among other places it is SO NORMAL to wear a mask if you have a cold or flu symptoms. Could we do that (with non-disposable masks) everywhere, please?
independent.co.uk/news/health/fl…
Also that way you don't have to talk to people when you feel sick.
Also probably helps a bit with air pollution, which is enormous and horrible who.int/health-topics/…
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18 Feb
There is no such thing as a natural disaster. Natural hazards like hurricanes, earthquakes, extreme temperatures become human disasters when they interact with unsafe housing, poor drainage, lack of savings, misinformation, inadequate health care, an absence of solidarity.
Of course we have also learned how to produce unnatural hazards, causing earthquakes with fracking and worsening extreme weather by burning down the forests, polluting the atmosphere and the ocean. But even before we get into that, society determines who is hurt in disasters.
And it gets so much worse when we factor in the human-made hazards. Communities of color face disproportionate pollution and dangerous contaminants ALL THE TIME: in a disaster these may overflow, explode, leach into groundwater. theguardian.com/environment/20…
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16 Feb
Thanks to everyone who bought Infomocracy last quarter, I just donated $232.03 to Accountability Lab via @HopsieInc : accountabilitylab.giv.sh/08bb
Every quarter I donate 10% of my royalties, both because I feel grateful to be able to earn this way, & because I want to connect my readers to organizations doing the real work on the issues I write about.
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