.jpg)
The National Data Buoy Center is offline: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/. Possible explanations could be a simple maintenance system check or another successful hacker attack by China.
David DeGerolamo
Tsunami Buoys Turned Off Around The World
Why have tsunami buoys around the entire world been turned off as shown in this screenshot from the National Data Bouy Center and as asked by those paying attention to these things in this forum? According to ‘the watchers’, this has never happened before. Is this just some kind of ‘glitch’ with our government reporting centers or is there more to it?
Removal of nuclear fuel begins at Fukushima
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun removing nuclear fuel from a storage pool at a damaged reactor building.
Workers placed a special fuel transport container in the storage pool of the Number 4 reactor building.
The pool holds 1,533 units of nuclear fuel, of which 1,331 are highly radioactive spent fuel. The rest are unused.
At around 3PM on Monday, the workers started to hoist the unused fuel units into the steel container, which can store 22 units of fuel. The utility decided to remove these units first as they do not release high levels of radiation and heat. A TEPCO official said that the first fuel unit was moved into the container by 4PM, and that the workers had encountered no problems.
A Buoy-Based Security System For Our Ports
Intellicheck Mobilisa, a wireless-technology firm in Port Townsend, Washington, is trying to address this vulnerability with the first buoy system that can communicate in real time to the shore. The system uses radiation detectors and video cameras to find and track potentially dangerous vessels. Each buoy also carries sensors that detect weather and water conditions for environmental research. And they do it all using primarily off-the-shelf technologies, which keep the cost at $100,000 each. That’s cheap, considering that just nine buoys could protect all of Washington State’s Puget Sound and the more than $80 billion worth of goods that travel through it each year.
