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I guess I never thought to look for a list of cities where nudity was legal. Spring Break?

One of the engineers in my division is the US lead for the effort to understand the events at Fukushima and probably knows more about what happened than anyone else in the country.  He gave a talk yesterday that was a broad overview of what happened and what the consequences are expected to be.  The slides from his talk are here and here.  Some parts are pretty technical and not so interesting (and acronym-tastic) but there's some good information in it (and some pretty impressive pictures) if you want more information than you're likely to get anywhere else.  

At the end of the second set of slides is a description of radiation exposures to workers and to the general public.  Among the workers 2 were exposed to levels that would result in radiation poisoning although probably below lethal levels "a certain number of people" (I'm not making up that unit) were exposed to a level that would have no immediate consequences but puts them at a moderately increased risk for cancers in the years to come 30 were exposed to a level that is generally considered the threshold for above-background cancer risks and 7800 were exposed to an elevated but generally harmless level.  Among the general population no children tested positive for above normal exposures to the thyroid (increased childhood leukemia from radioactive iodine exposure was one of the most significant impacts of Chernobyl).

Sunday alcohol sales passed in Roswell!!  Matt and I did our part.

sounds like the nerds at Vanderbilt know how to throw a party