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To: ggersh who wrote (131339)	3/4/2017 1:00:51 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217574

Fukushima News: Deadly Nuclear Radiation Levels Baffle Scientists Trying To Build Robot To Survive Reactor The company in charge of the ruined Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant revealed Thursday it needed new ideas to design robots capable of surviving the high levels of radiation inside the site's reactors, which were damaged in a 2011 earthquake and its resulting tsunami. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has hit a new obstacle since being tasked with cleaning up the worst nuclear incident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union. The exploratory robot, specially designed to navigate the underwater sections of the reactor, died last month after being exposed to " unimaginable" levels of radiation nearly nine times more potent than the previous highest dose recorded. Naohiro Masuda, president of Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning project, told reporters that the company had to rethink its methods in order to examine and extract the hazardous material stuck in the plant's second reactor. “We should think out of the box so we can examine the bottom of the core and how melted fuel debris spread out,” Masuda said, according to the Japan Times.

To: ggersh who wrote (131339)	3/4/2017 11:52:09 PM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Recommended By ggersh Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217574

Compare how small populations urbanize and how huge populations urbanized. Europe took 400 years. US 100 years. Developing countries urbanizing in shorter time and in a much bigger scale. That is the difference. DIFFERENCE 1 Europe Urbanization was tough as Black Death showed. Population was cut by diseases. Developing countries are urbanizing without populations being cut. Industrialization employes the masses coming from the rural areas to the cities. Major wars to fight for natural resources, see France and Germany in Europe Japan in Asia. Cut populations again DIFFERENCE 2 Europe Urbanization took rural and put to work in the factories. Another horror as Marx and Engels showed and they proposed communism because ot the horror they witnessed Developing countries Urbanization took rural populations to the cities and there were no factories besides a few countries. Look to Mexico maquiladoras or Sao Paulo industrialization financed by coffee exports. Science and better education cut infant mortality and there were no wars for resources to industrialize CHINA AND SOUTH EAST ASIA TOOK ALL THE INDUSTRIES TO THEM Now that the populations are in the cities of Lagos, Ibadan, Mexico City, Cairo, with no industries, and the threat of Arab Springs starting, governments, such as India, are taking measures to avoid the fate of the North African plus Syria. WHAT IS THE NEW RURAL There is need to keep the populations in the rural areas instead of urbanizing them to create pollution and slums. Technologies will help. Rural can now have access to information and entertainment. Local governments can serve the populations by de-centralizing the administrations. Before people need banks. Now there is MPESA and people transact via mobile phones. Internet traffic gro 100% a year in Kenya. Consumers in developing nations are bypassing infrastructure: The lack of infrastructure needed for desktop Web means that consumers are jumping straight to smartphones to access the Internet—that represents a 34% higher share growth. U.S. Web Traffic Stalls As Traffic In China, India, and Brazil Grows http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/295981/us-web-traffic-stalls-as-traffic-in-china-india.html