The design flaws in the Fukushima reactors were noted by the reactor designer Alvin Weinberg, which lead to his sacking in 1973. It looks like vested interests have concealed these shortcomings, despite cooling problems leading to the problems at Three Mile Island. The outcomes of this event will totally reshape the whole nuclear industry.
Monthly Archives: March 2011
Magic Erasers wear rapidly and would release nanofibres into the air. It does not appear that there are any published toxicity studies on these fine melamine fibres. Being fine, they would not be unpleasant to inhale. How toxic is the dust?
Magic Eraser nanotoxicity?
I suspect the “failures” of the Japanese nuclear reactors after the March 2011 earthquake will present less of a health problem than the media is reporting (see postscript at the end – I could be wrong) In normal operations, a nuclear power station is likely to produce a much smaller […]
Japanese reactor safety
Tissue engineering at Yale has achieved functioning rat lungs repopulated with cells from another animal. Will this lead to replacement lungs with no tissue rejection for people with damaged lungs?
Lung Engineering
Brazilian carpenter ants become zombies when infected with a parasitic fungus that causes the ant to cling to an exposed surface. The ants dies and the fungus grows through their head to fall on other ants on the ground, to repeat the cycle.