Archive for April, 2016
“…Discussions about nuclear terrorism also tend to focus on the risk of terrorists stealing weapons-grade material or making a dirty bomb. But they often overlook the danger of terrorists attacking a nuclear plant in order to set off a Chernobyl- or Fukushima-like disaster. That risk is real, however, and has been known for a while. …”
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016“….Striking a nuclear plant or the cooling ponds in which nuclear waste is stored wouldn’t set off a mushroom cloud or kill hundreds of thousands of people. But it would spew large amounts of radiation, spark a mass panic and render vast swaths of land uninhabitable. And it could cause thousands of early deaths from cancer….”
Mosquitoes have infected 2 women with the Zika virus in Vietnam
Tuesday, April 5th, 2016A 64-year-old woman in the beach city of Nha Trang
A pregnant 33-year-old in Ho Chi Minh City
Islamic State has been using a well-stocked university chemistry lab in Mosul, Iraq, for the past year to concoct a new generation of explosive devices and train militants to make them.
Monday, April 4th, 2016Torrential rains and flash floods killed 50 people and wounded 55 others in northwest Pakistan on Sunday.
Monday, April 4th, 2016Authorities on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios deported 202 migrants and refugees on boats bound for Turkey Monday
Monday, April 4th, 2016‘….”This is the first day of a very difficult time for refugee rights. Despite the serious legal gaps and lack of adequate protection in Turkey, the EU is forging ahead with a dangerous deal,” Giorgos Kosmopoulos, head of Amnesty International in Greece, told the Associated Press from Lesbos….’
Train 89 was heading from New York to Savannah, Georgia, at about 8 a.m. Sunday when it hit heavy equipment on the track in Chester, PA, knocking the lead engine off the rails.
Monday, April 4th, 2016
** 2 Amtrak workers were killed
** More than 30 passengers were sent to hospitals with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.
The traffic into Europe through the Arctic began late last summer, with more than 5,000 migrants on bicycles suddenly pouring across Russia’s previously tightly controlled northern border into Norway.
Monday, April 4th, 2016USGS experts: The chance of a destructive EQ in the next year is as great in parts of north-central Oklahoma and southern Kansas — where oil-and-gas operations have set off man-made quakes for about 5 years — as it is in the shakiest parts of quake-prone California.
Monday, April 4th, 2016“…That wastewater is disposed of by re-injecting it into the ground, into rock formations thousands of feet below the surface, increasing the pressure on existing subterranean faults, and causing them to slip and produce tremors….. In an average year, Oklahoma has historically had fewer than two quakes of magnitude 3 or greater — roughly the level at which a tremor can be felt. Kansas has had even fewer such shocks. But last year, Oklahoma recorded 907 quakes at magnitude 3 and above, and Kansas registered 54.
Oklahoma now ranks behind only Alaska in earthquake frequency, followed by California…..”
