Re: [Vo]:News from Mizuno

2011-05-12 Thread mixent
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 10 May 2011 23:28:22 -0400: Hi, [snip] Depending on wind conditions and the shape of the ground, some areas closer to the reactor are safe, and some farther away are not safe. You cannot just draw an arbitrary 10 km circle. It probably depends largely

Re: [Vo]:News from Mizuno

2011-05-11 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Local radioactivity in Sapporo has risen significantly above normal background, sometimes an order of magnitude. Not enough to be dangerous but enough to measure easily. I should have said local radioactivity has at times risen . . . It is not permanent. I think it is back to

[Vo]:News from Mizuno

2011-05-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Tadahiko Mizuno is officially retired from Hokkaido U., but he is hanging around the campus doing research, mainly on cold fusion. He hopes to publish some papers soon. Ten years ago retired profs were not allowed to hang around because they exercised too much influence, I think, but that rule has