Magnitude 8.9 Earthquake Hits Japan

[PPI Debra]

*Ding* (lightbulb moment).  Thank you, Debra. 

I learn to so much here. 

We all do, from each other! 

[PPI Tracy]

Very true, Deb.  Very true. 

(you are an awesome teacher) 

[PPI Debra]

Very true, Deb.  Very true. 

(you are an awesome teacher) 

Thanks for the kind words, Tracy. 

[PPI Debra]

Neutron beam observed 13 times at crippled Fukushima nuke plant

TOKYO, March 23, Kyodo

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has observed a neutron beam, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was crippled by the massive March 11 quake-tsunami disaster.

TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear plant, said the neutron beam measured about 1.5 kilometers southwest of the plant's No. 1 and 2 reactors over three days from March 13 and is equivalent to 0.01 to 0.02 microsieverts per hour and that this is not a dangerous level.

The utility firm said it will measure uranium and plutonium, which could emit a neutron beam, as well.

In the 1999 criticality accident at a nuclear fuel processing plant run by JCO Co. in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, uranium broke apart continually in nuclear fission, causing a massive amount of neutron beams.

In the latest case at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, such a criticality accident has yet to happen.

But the measured neutron beam may be evidence that uranium and plutonium leaked from the plant's nuclear reactors and spent nuclear fuels have discharged a small amount of neutron beams through nuclear fission.

==Kyodo

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/80539.html

[PPI Jason]

Is that what they were talking about when the Pointer Sisters sang, "I'm just burnin' doin' the neutron dance"? I always wondered what they meant because it never made any sense to me. I guess it still doesn't make sense. Does that mean we can call them the "Pointless Sisters"?

[PPI Tracy]

Is that what they were talking about when the Pointer Sisters sang, "I'm just burnin' doin' the neutron dance"? I always wondered what they meant because it never made any sense to me. I guess it still doesn't make sense. Does that mean we can call them the "Pointless Sisters"?

They had to make up a flashy song for Beverly Hills Cop.  Eddie Murphy can't just swing from a truck on a chain to just any song now, ya know. 

It's so funny how we just took for granted the meaning of song lyrics or titles "back in the day."  Yeah....Little Red Corvette   is about a car.  NOT.