In honor of Endeavour 's upcoming launch, here's a link to a fine time-lapse video of launch preparations for STS-131: raising th...

Tepco has released a set of flow charts and simple diagrams called the Roadmap, which lay out a broad summary of its plan to get control o...

In previous blogs I fretted about the use of seawater to cool Fukushima, because these are boiling water reactors. As hundreds of tons of se...

NPR ran a piece last week about efforts in Tokyo to cut power consumption . One spot highlighted was Shibuya shopping district, northwest ...

The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun has provided new details on what happened with the generators at Fukushima Dai-Ichi . I've been ...

Quick post on the news item Friday about Southwest Flight 812 , Phoenix to Sacramento, which had to make an unscheduled landing after a sect...

Noting this piece in the LATimes, "Helicopter Battle Kicks Up Dust in West Hollywood," about the Sofitel Hotel's request to c...