Monday, November 22, 2010

Hunt is on for radioactive mouse

US authorities are on the hunt for a radioactive mouse living in the grounds of a historic nuclear weapon production plant.

Radioactive mouse droppings were discovered in the grounds of the Hanford nuclear plant in Washington state.

It comes two weeks after a radioactive rabbit was captured on the same site, reports the Tri-City Herald.

Hanford workers have set about 60 mouse traps, but the two mice that have been caught so far were not contaminated.

The mouse and rabbit droppings were found in the same area, leading contractors who are cleaning up the area to believe that the animals ate or drank a common source of radioactive contamination.

The Washington State Department of Health said it does not believe there is any danger to the public.

Hanford reactors produced plutonium for the US nuclear weapons program from 1944 to 1987, including the world's first nuclear bomb and the Fat Man bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.

Workers are now involved in a massive project to clean up the billions of gallons of liquid waste and millions of tons of solid waste created by the transformation of raw uranium into plutonium for bombs.


Why is does such things really exist is the world. It is kind of scary if you see a radioactive animal in front of you.

Friday, November 19, 2010

A Peace Talk at SMU

Yesterday i went to SMU to have a talk about human beings around the world are getting separated from their potential ability. This is due to the developing of economy as technology involves and people are not following their natural desires. Such as when a printer is defected, you could easily sent it to the service center to repair while when a child is defected by technology such as computer which attracts the child to surf online for long hours, you can't do much about it but to teach the child to be more sensible. Nowadays plastic surgery are common because people can easily go to hospital to check whether they have nice shape of their figure unlike the past. People are now living in a fake world which they are deeply influence by the society, educations and many other things. In education, the study system of Singapore lets people to think that the more you the study the more talented you are but this is wrong, students are studying in a wrong way. People are now unable to explore their hidden potential due the world.
I have learnt a lot things and enjoyed this lecture given by the professor.