Welcome to This Blog

For the first time, I've found it useful to start a blog.   The purpose of this blog is to provide information on the effects of the Magnitude  9.0 Tohoku Earthquake, especially focusing on the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi reactors and the radiological impact on San Francisco Bay Area where I live.   I've been sending updates to my friends, and decided it would be easier to store these in  a blog.

About me:  I'm an astronomy lecturer/adjunct professor at SF State.   I've included some of the information on the nuclear reactions in my class discussion, since we study nuclear reactions in the Sun and other stars.