[Column] Wishing to go back to America this winter with my background grown a little bit

I left home at 14:00 and came back with the contract at 16:00. The contract is for the permanent office of Fukushima Diary corporation.
I have never thought that I can get it done so soon.
This is what I came back to Bucharest for.

Last year I wasn’t even sure I’d be alive around the time of next year. I had never thought I’d manage to get a visa, make a company for other people, live in nowhere and have an office for the company.

I don’t how I did it. I just saw some magic moments at every corner I took.
I seem to do the best job when I don’t know what I’m doing.

There are always some problems around me. If it’s not sorted out quickly, it would collapse everything. I could be stunned and feared 24/7.
However I’m learning it’s nothing but the waste of time.

Life is short. There’s no time to think twice.

If situation allows, I would like to go back to America by this winter.
I want to be able to explain the Fukushima nuclear plant situation better, and have built a little bit more proper back ground.

Last time, it was a little bit frustrating for me because I couldn’t have so much people listen to me having no background in journalism, ecological activism etc.. hope to have achieved something by then this year.

The other day, one of the readers told me she heard guys talking at a cafe “Do you know the site called Fukushima Diary” somewhere in western Europe. I wish to spread the name recognition this way.
Soon nobody would forget Fukushima. By that time, I shall stop Fukushima from being forgotten by Fukushima Diary whatever it is for. Indeed, calling it “Fukushima accident” is misunderstanding an d arrogant. There is no wall in the air and sea.

 

 

Don’t let them dominate the truth just because they have money.

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Français :

[Édito] Cet hiver, j’aimerai retourner en Amérique avec un savoir-faire un peu amélioré

 

Je suis sorti de la maison à 14:00 et revenu avec le contrat à 16:00. Ce contrat, c’ est celui du bureau permanent de l’entreprise  Fukushima Diary.
Je n’ai jamais imaginé pouvoir l’avoir aussi rapidement.
C’est pour lui que je suis revenu à Bucarest.

L’an dernier je n’étais même pas sûr d’être encore vivant l’année suivante. Je n’avais jamais imaginé avoir à gérer un visa, à monter une entreprise pour d’autres gens, à vivre nulle part et avoir un bureau pour l’entreprise.

Je ne sais pas comment j’ai fait. J’ai seulement vu des moments magiques à chaque coin que j’ai pris.
Je semble faire le meilleur travail lorsque je ne sais pas ce que je fait.

J’ai toujours quelques problèmes autour de moi. Tout peut s’écrouler s’ils ne sont pas rapidement réglés. Je peux me retrouver abasourdi et terrifié le 24 juillet.
Je suis en train d’apprendre cependant que ce n’est rien d’autre que du temps perdu.

La vie est courte. On n’a pas le temps d’y penser à deux fois.

Si la situation le permet, j’aimerai retourner en Amérique cet hiver.
Je veux être capable de mieux expliquer la situation de la centrale de Fukushima, me doter d’un bagage un peu plus performant.

Ça avait été un peu frustrant pour moi la dernière fois parce que je ne pouvais pas attirer tellement de gens  à cause de mon manque de savoir-faire en journalisme, militantisme écologique, etc. J’espère que j’aurais atteint quelque chose de mieux comme niveau d’ici la fin de l’année.

L’autre jour, une des lectrices m’a dit que, dans un bistro d’Europe de l’Ouest, elle avait entendu des types dire “Tu connais le site appelé le Fukushima Diary”. Je souhaite faire connaître le nom de cette façon.
Bientôt, personne ne pourra plus oublier Fukushima. A ce moment-là, j’empêcherai par le Fukushima Diary que Fukushima soit oublié, pour quoi que ce soit. En fait, appeler ça “l’accident de Fukushima” c’est mal le comprendre et c’est de l’arrogance. Il n’y a pas de mur dans l’air, ni dans la mer.

Ne les laissez pas dominer la vérité juste parce qu’ils sont riches.

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    list of Eastern Europe countries:

    Russia
    Czech Republic
    Poland
    Hungary
    Romania and Moldova
    Croatia
    Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
    Slovenia
    Slovakia
    Bulgaria
    Ukraine and Belarus
    Serbia
    Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia

  2. Nestled behind a waterfall in western New York state is an “eternal flame” whose beauty is only surpassed by its mystery. It is one of a few hundred “natural” eternal flames around the world, fed by gas seeping to the Earth’s surface from underground, said Arndt Schimmelmann, a researcher at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.

    But even within this rarefied group, this flame is special. Perhaps lit by Native Americans hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is fed by a new type of geologic process that hasn’t been recorded before in nature, Schimmelmann told OurAmazingPlanet.

    Typically, this type of gas is thought to come from deeply submerged, ancient and extremely hot deposits of shale, a kind of rock. Temperatures have to be near the boiling point of water or hotter to break down the large carbon molecules in shale and create smaller molecules of natural gas, Schimmelmann explained. [Image Gallery: One-of-a-Kind Places on Earth]

    A curiosity “nobody believed in”

    In this case, though, the rocks that feed the flame are only warm — “like a cup of tea” — as well as geologically younger than expected, and shallow, Schimmelmann said. Those findings suggest the gas is being produced by a different process, whereby some sort of catalyst is creating gas from organic molecules in the shale, he said.

    “This mechanism has been proposed for many years, but it was a curiosity that nobody believed in,” Schimmelmann said. “We think there’s a different pathway of gas generation in this location and that there probably is elsewhere as well.” If that’s true, and gas is naturally produced this way in other locations, “we have much more shale-gas resources than we thought,” he added.

    Originally, Schimmelmann and his colleague Maria Mastalerz, of the Indiana Geological Survey, were tasked by the U.S. Department of Energy to estimate the total amount of methane that seeps out of the ground in parts of the eastern United States. To help, they recruited Giuseppe Etiope, a researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy, and world expert on natural gas seeps and eternal flames, Schimmelmann said.

    A flame eternal

    Etiope guided the researchers to the aforementioned eternal flame in Chestnut Ridge Park in western New York, calling it “the most beautiful in the world,” Schimmelmann said. They also looked at a “permanently burning pit” in Cook Forest State Park in northwestern Pennsylvania, although this eternal flame is not as special because it’s supplied by an old gas well, Schimmelmann said. The team reported their findings on the New York eternal flame in a study published in the May issue of the journal Marine and Petroleum Geology.

    Their results were consistent with estimates that about 30 percent of all methane emitted worldwide comes from natural sources such as these gas seeps. When possible, it can actually be beneficial to set fire to these gas seeps to create “eternal flames.” Fire converts methane to carbon dioxide, which traps about 20 times less heat than methane in the atmosphere, Mastalerz told OurAmazingPlanet.

    However, “macro seeps” that can be lit and form eternal flames remain rare. In most cases, gas percolates through soil — where methane-eating bacteria convert it into carbon dioxide, Schimmelmann said — or it comes out in a location that can’t sustain combustion. In the case of the New York flame, gas percolates in a naturally hollowed-out chamber, where the flame flickers eternally.

    The New York gas seep also features the highest concentration of ethane and propane of any seep in the world, according to the study.

    The eternal flame behind the veil of a waterfall in Chestnut Ridge County Park in New York State (top) and in Cook Forest State Park in northwestern Pennsylvania (bottom).

    [Pin It] The eternal flame behind the veil of a waterfall in Chestnut Ridge County Park in New York State (top) and in Cook Forest State Park in northwestern Pennsylvania (bottom).

    CREDIT: Giuseppe Etiope et al / Marine and Petroleum Geology

    View full size image

    http://www.livescience.com/29510-eternal-flames-natural-gas-source.html

  3. Nestled behind a waterfall in western New York state is an “eternal flame” whose beauty is only surpassed by its mystery. It is one of a few hundred “natural” eternal flames around the world, fed by gas seeping to the Earth’s surface from underground, said Arndt Schimmelmann, a researcher at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.

    But even within this rarefied group, this flame is special. Perhaps lit by Native Americans hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is fed by a new type of geologic process that hasn’t been recorded before in nature, Schimmelmann told OurAmazingPlanet.

    Typically, this type of gas is thought to come from deeply submerged, ancient and extremely hot deposits of shale, a kind of rock. Temperatures have to be near the boiling point of water or hotter to break down the large carbon molecules in shale and create smaller molecules of natural gas, Schimmelmann explained. [Image Gallery: One-of-a-Kind Places on Earth]

    A curiosity “nobody believed in”

    In this case, though, the rocks that feed the flame are only warm — “like a cup of tea” — as well as geologically younger than expected, and shallow, Schimmelmann said. Those findings suggest the gas is being produced by a different process, whereby some sort of catalyst is creating gas from organic molecules in the shale, he said.

    “This mechanism has been proposed for many years, but it was a curiosity that nobody believed in,” Schimmelmann said. “We think there’s a different pathway of gas generation in this location and that there probably is elsewhere as well.” If that’s true, and gas is naturally produced this way in other locations, “we have much more shale-gas resources than we thought,” he added.

    Originally, Schimmelmann and his colleague Maria Mastalerz, of the Indiana Geological Survey, were tasked by the U.S. Department of Energy to estimate the total amount of methane that seeps out of the ground in parts of the eastern United States. To help, they recruited Giuseppe Etiope, a researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy, and world expert on natural gas seeps and eternal flames, Schimmelmann said.

    A flame eternal

    Etiope guided the researchers to the aforementioned eternal flame in Chestnut Ridge Park in western New York, calling it “the most beautiful in the world,” Schimmelmann said. They also looked at a “permanently burning pit” in Cook Forest State Park in northwestern Pennsylvania, although this eternal flame is not as special because it’s supplied by an old gas well, Schimmelmann said. The team reported their findings on the New York eternal flame in a study published in the May issue of the journal Marine and Petroleum Geology.

    Their results were consistent with estimates that about 30 percent of all methane emitted worldwide comes from natural sources such as these gas seeps. When possible, it can actually be beneficial to set fire to these gas seeps to create “eternal flames.” Fire converts methane to carbon dioxide, which traps about 20 times less heat than methane in the atmosphere, Mastalerz told OurAmazingPlanet.

    However, “macro seeps” that can be lit and form eternal flames remain rare. In most cases, gas percolates through soil — where methane-eating bacteria convert it into carbon dioxide, Schimmelmann said — or it comes out in a location that can’t sustain combustion. In the case of the New York flame, gas percolates in a naturally hollowed-out chamber, where the flame flickers eternally.

    The New York gas seep also features the highest concentration of ethane and propane of any seep in the world, according to the study.

    The eternal flame behind the veil of a waterfall in Chestnut Ridge County Park in New York State (top) and in Cook Forest State Park in northwestern Pennsylvania (bottom).

    [Pin It] The eternal flame behind the veil of a waterfall in Chestnut Ridge County Park in New York State (top) and in Cook Forest State Park in northwestern Pennsylvania (bottom).

    CREDIT: Giuseppe Etiope et al / Marine and Petroleum Geology

    View full size image

    livescience.com/29510-eternal-flames-natural-gas-source.html

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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