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Carmentea Cantar del llano, cantar de brisas del río Ay! Carmentea tu corazón será mío. Cantar del llano, cantar de brisas del río Ay! Carmentea tu corazón será mío. (Song of the plains, song of the river breezes. Oh! Carmentea, your heart will be mine.) Si te esquivas de mis...

Alma LLanera Alma LLanera is Venezuela's unofficial National Anthem. Sort of like America the Beautiful is to the US.

In this context, "morenita" should be translated as "sweetheart." So, "Bésame, Morenita" means "Kiss me, Sweetheart." "colorado" is another word for the color red, so "coloradita" means red (like an apple) "condenada" literally means condemned one or, in this case, condemnable one, as in...

By the Quinteto Dalmar:

Correction: All seawater pumps were submerged in the tsunami. Units 5 and 6 had been out of serviice for 2 and 7 months, respectively, at the time of the earthquake and, thus, the decay heat that needed to be removed would have been much less than if they had been operating. The temporary...

True. From pages 20 and 21 of http://www.iaea.org/inisnkm/nkm/pages/2011/NEMschool2011/topics/topic0/Fukushima Overview_Sekimura.pdf (Overview of the Accident in Fukushima Daiichi Power Plants by Naoto Sekimura). Unit 2 B: O.P. +10.2m (Not Flooded)(Air-Cooled) Unit 4 B: O.P. +10.2m...

Elevation of Emergency Diesel Generators (EDG) at Fukushima Dai-Ichi (O.P.: Onahama port base tide level for construction, page II-68 of http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/fukushima/japan-report2/chapter-2-1.pdf (the second report to the IAEA linked by tsutsuji)): From Table II-2-14 on...

The RPVs are made out of steel. Nobody has suggested using FRP composites on them. That is a straw man. Any structural repairs are going to require long hours of skilled labor, as well as long hours of unskilled labor. Steel trusses are an alternative also, as are steel plates, each of which...

There are three large reactor buildings that have been severely damaged by hydrogen explosions. Working inside those buildings, given probable continued seismic activity as well as corrosion is going to be a hazard over the foreseeable time period (10 to 20 years). It would seem FRP composites...

FRP Composites are an alternative to repair/strengthen existing/damaged concrete structures. http://www.quakewrap.com/frp%20papers/Case-Study-of-Application-of-FRP-Composites-in-Strengthening-the-Reinforced-Concrete-Headstock-of-a-Bridge-Structure.pdf" is a random paper on the subject.

It is redundant because (a) "all the lines" did not go to a single substation and (b) the substation had its own internal redundancies. If you look at (http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110516e25.pdf"), you can observe that the substation had two main busses...

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11051613-e.html This link is to a press release on May 16, 2011 regarding damage to electrical facilities at Fukushima Daiichi. There are links to ten attachments with further details, including schematics and photos...

I assume that the judgement that the shaking was within or just barely exceeded the design basis was based on a publication by TEPCO of the Seismic Data measured at Fukushima (http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110516e27.pdf). From the table, 18 maximum response...

Is there a reliable estimate of what percentage of Cs-137 inventory has been released so far at Fukushima?

I am not impressed with CNIC's sourcing practices. Reading some of the linked reports, there are multiple unsourced references. The http://cnic.jp/english/newsletter/pdffiles/nit103.pdf publication which reports on the Mihama pipe rupture as mentioned above is one example. I have tried to...