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NUCLEAR JAPAN

In Japan, plutonium is created as a by-product of the nuclear energy industry.

In 1995, Japan was reported to have 4.7 tons of plutonium, enough for around 700 nuclear warheads.

Japan has a uranium enrichment plant which could be used to make highly enriched uranium suitable for weapon use.

Japan has developed the M-V three-stage solid fuel rocket, similar in design to the U.S. LGM-118A Peacekeeper ICBM, which could serve as a delivery vehicle for nuclear weapons. (Japanese nuclear weapon program - Wikipedia)

Note the following:

(1) Secret Weapons Program Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plants?

(2) "Like Israel, Japan is a "secret" nuclear power."


Japan has raised the severity level of its Fukushima nuclear crisis to the maximum seven.

This is the same level as Chernobyl. (Japan raises nuclear crisis to same level as Chernobyl)

The 2009 report, "Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment", published by the New York Academy of Sciences, estimates the number of deaths attributable to the Chernobyl meltdown at about 980,000. (Nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation)

FT guide to radiation

To measure radiation, scientists use the unit known as the sievert (Sv) – divided into thousandths (millisieverts or mSv) and millionths (microsieverts or µSv).

The figures below show typical exposure levels and their effects:

2 mSv per year - typical background exposure from the environment (actual level depends on altitude, natural radioactivity of local rocks, etc)

2.4 mSv per year - average dose to US nuclear industry workers

9 mSv per year - exposure to airline crew flying regularly between New York and Tokyo

20 mSv per year - current limit (averaged) for nuclear industry employees and uranium miners

100 mSv per year - lowest level at which any increase in cancer risk is clearly evident

(The US National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report has concluded, no dose of radiation is safe.)

1000 mSv (1 sievert) cumulative - estimated to cause a fatal cancer many years later in 5 out of every 100 people exposed to it

1,000 mSv (1 sievert) single dose - temporary radiation sickness - not fatal

5,000 mSv (5 sieverts) single dose - fatal within a month to half of those who receive it

10,000 mSv (10 sieverts) single dose - fatal within weeks

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The strange phenomenon of the fungi that shine in Japan

During the season of rains in certain regions of Japan, the forests begin to fill with small lights: in the trunks of the trees and the humid ground hundreds of bioluminescent fungi grow, that thanks to a chemical reaction produced by an enzyme, emit a light that shines in a greenish tone.

The reason of the phenomenon of the bioluminescent fungi not yet has been explained scientifically, although according to the theory, it thinks that it is an answer to the survival necessity: when shining, they attract insects that help to disperse esporas in an atmosphere where the dispersion by wind is very limited.

The luminescent fungi, grow only in the native forests with many trees, where the human beings have interfered very little, reason why its discovery is relatively, quite recent.

The phenomenon of luminescent fungi takes place between end of May to July in the forests of the Mesameyama island in Ugui, in the Prefecture of Wakayama, although also they have been exemplary in coastal zones of the south of the peninsula of Kii, in Kyushu and other regions. Thousands of visitors realise nocturnal visits guided by the forests of Masameyama to be bewildered itself with the spectacle.

Only in Japan, 10 varieties of luminescent fungi exist. Although small, the fungi live a few days and can conform a true “constellation” that seems to imitate in a very small scale the starred sky. The species of the images knows like Mycena lux-coeli, something as well as “fungi of celestial light”.

Other varieties of bioluminescent fungi exist that grow in the forests to the south of Brazil (Jack Mushroom), able to emit light the day throughout.

Japan's Capsule Hotels - Amazing Photos...

This particular Capsule Hotel is located near Kabukicho (red light district) in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. It allows only men. It cost Y3,800 for the "room" and bath. Massages are available for an additional Y3,300 for 40 minutes. It's on the 6th floor of a building and is called Big Lemon. It's open 24 hours and you can leave and come back as you wish.









They speak a little English and foreigners are welcome. You can store your luggage behind the counter. You pay at a vending machine and hand the ticket to the clerk. They give you a capsule number and locker key and wrist band. When you are in for the night, you change in the locker room and wear the small yukata around the facility. Upstairs is a shower and sento bath. There is a restaurant and small bar as well. Beside that is a TV room with several lazy boy chairs. Technically you could pay only Y1,200 for the sento and sleep in the lazy boy chairs as many people were doing.









Since most visitors to a Capsule hotel are Japanese business men who don't have time to go home, there are amenities there for people who didn't plan on staying away from home. You can shave, brush your teeth, take a bath, buy shirts, pants, belts, ties, undershirts. Not sure if there is overnight dry-cleaning, but I wouldn't doubt it. Check out was around 9 and starting at 7am they made public announcements reminding people to get up and get out. There were about 150 capsules in this facility. Some have 600+ in Shinjuku.















There are many buttons and knobs in the capsule. One turns on the light and a knob dims the light. One turns on the TV, another button flips through the channels. There is a big red button that costs Y300 to press. That's the porn button. There is a radio and an alarm clock built in. At the end of the capsule there is a screen you can pull down to "lock" yourself in. The entire capsule was about 6 to 6.5 feet long. I am 6 foot 3ish and I had to lie diagonally, but I was able to sleep. The building was slightly warmer than I prefer. I wish there were individual heaters/coolers in each capsule.

Wald International Tricks Out BMW’s Latest 5-Series F10 Sedan

Noted Japanese tuning house Wald International is preparing its first customization take on the latest BMW 5-Series sedan. Details are still scant as this is a project in the works, but the Wald-modified 5-Series Sports Line Black Bison Edition gets a collection of aero body pieces made from fiberglass-reinforced plastic.

The exterior kit includes a new front bumper design with additional air vents and LED daytime lights, along with bespoke side skirts, a beefy rear apron housing a diffuser and the firm’s familiar exhaust tail pipe design, and a fixed boot lid spoiler. A new set of multispoke alloy wheels complete the look.

If Wald International’s previous Black Bison projects are anything to go by, customers should also expect a sports suspension kit and an assortment of interior parts such as a sport steering wheel and carbon-fiber trim. We’ll have more details on the tune as soon as Wald makes them available.

Source: Wald via Autoblog.nl

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