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Radiation Level At Fukushima Reactor No. 2 At Its Highest Level Recorded So Far, Neutron Beam Observed 13 Times
Per the Japan Nuclear Agency: the Radiation level at Fukushima reactor No. 2 at its highest level recorded so far. From Reuters: "Radiation at the crippled Fukushima No.2 nuclear reactor was recorded at the highest level since the start of the crisis, Japan's nuclear safety agency said on Wednesday. An agency spokesman said 500 millisieverts per hour of radiation was measured at the No.2 unit on Wednesday. Engineers have been trying to fix the plant's cooling system after restoring lighting on Tuesday." And some more truthy news from Kyodo:
Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has observed a neutron beam, a
kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear plant after it was crippled by the massive March 11
quake-tsunami disaster.
TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear plant, said the neutron beam
measured about 1.5 kilometers southwest of the plant's No. 1 and 2
reactors over three days from March 13 and is equivalent to 0.01 to 0.02
microsieverts per hour and that this is not a dangerous level.
The utility firm said it will measure uranium and plutonium, which could emit a neutron beam, as well.
In the 1999 criticality accident at a nuclear fuel processing plant
run by JCO Co. in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, uranium broke apart
continually in nuclear fission, causing a massive amount of neutron
beams.
In the latest case at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, such a criticality accident has yet to happen.
But the measured neutron beam may be evidence that uranium and
plutonium leaked from the plant's nuclear reactors and spent nuclear
fuels have discharged a small amount of neutron beams through nuclear
fission.
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everything's fine folks. everything's fine.
Except for Sharks with Friggin Neutron beams attached to their heads!
Put up all radiation shields and go to warp drive. The Blue Green place has either been swallowed by a Quasar or is to far gone to risk a landing, and with those readings there co be no truly intelligent beings on it . Lets get the flock outta this quadrant and take our bailout money somewhere else.
For those who have not seen it, an interactive quake map of japan....3 big ones last nite and getting closer to tokyo....
http://nakedempire2.blogspot.com/
You mean, they are made out of meat?
Regards,
Cooter
Haha, you saw that link I posted a few weeks back, huh? That's the best story ever.
I am Chumbawamba.
How do solve a prob-lem like Fuk-ku-she-ma?
How do you hold a New-tron Beam in your hand?
Apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein
Ladies and gentlemen, the key here is to duck and cover - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW4s7TETtJA
Be ready everyday, all of the time.
Duck and cover? That's nothing compared to this man's reflexes... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWt3-kPBQ4A&feature=related
Butcher of Bagdad, brother of Obomba.
LOL at Obomba...
That Bush guy really got the bob an weave down. That new sorta negroid fella we got now, he's really Irish idn't he. O'Bomb'em Ya, I red he's one of them transgenderd cathaholic/protestrant/musel'ems.
Buzz
...13 times, whereas analysts had expected 10,...
They beat the number! Buy! Buy! Buy!
Yep, sounds bullish...
Better than expected!
darn straight
and it's a fibonacci number too
And now Tepco is trumpeting that the japanese people themselves will have to pay for this cleanup: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-23/nuclear-cleanup-cost-goes-to-japan-s-taxpayers-may-spur-liability-shift.html
Death is too good for TEPCO
And now Tepco is trumpeting that the japanese people themselves will have to pay for this cleanup:
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They (the ppl) will in any *case ... this is news?
* No matter how you 'juggle the books', the populace ends up footing the bill in the end.
A neutron beam observed thirteen times ? "We'll have to get that number down a bit."
13 is bad luck.
You don't get neutron beams from random bits of fuel lying around. This was a criticality accident.
Uh-oh...
liar liar pants on radioactive fire!!!!
""liar liar pants on radioactive fire!!!!""
7 Reasons Food Shortages Will Become Global Crisis...
http://seenoevilspeaknoevilhearnoevil.blogspot.com/2011/03/7-reasons-food-shortages-will-become.html
Five Simple Ways to Prepare for the Coming Food Shortage...
http://seenoevilspeaknoevilhearnoevil.blogspot.com/2011/02/five-simple-ways-to-prepare-for-coming.html
Wrong Side Up....OT Comedy...
http://goodthoughtsgoodwordsgooddeeds.blogspot.com/2011/03/wrong-side-upfilm-short.html
Radiation is "GOOD" for you according to Ann Coulter!!!
THAT BITCH!
Oh dear, you've upset Ann Coulter's fan.
she's a man mutation, baby.
It is years, Your Grace, since I buggered a boy... And in my own defense, I must add, I thought him a girl at the moment of entry.
What say you, Guthrie, that Archie can't tell arse from quim?
+ JLR... Ann Coulter... Just another paid shill of the US...
If Ann believes radiation is good for you, why don't she take this opportunity to move her sorry azz to downtown Tokyo?...No doubt she can now get a real deal on real estate.
I am ambivalent about Ann Coulter and I don't know what her position on radiation being good for us is. What I do know is that there is a significant number of health physics professsionals who believe that radiation in small amounts stimulates the body's defensive mechanisms just as exposure to viruses and bacteria does. Therefore, a conclusion that small amounts are actually good for you. Everyone is exposed to naturally-occurring radiation every day. Some more that others due to their geographical location and/or time spent in structures that contain relatively high amounts of radiation-emitting materials such as granite.
Sure, that radiation is called sunlight, and it promote the bodies production of Vitamin D. Being pelted with ionizing radiation causes tissue damage. You can set up a health tourism trip to Fukushima. See how that goes for you.
+++
I wonder how many 'sidewalk nuclear physicists/biologist wanna-bes' actually read the piece she wrote; odds approach zero the louder the aspersion cast I think ...
Yet to see credible case made/the cite where her arg is shown false, mostly subjective unquantified, fact-free aspersions ...
So by this brilliant Nietzschean (that which does not fatally irradiate me, makes me stronger) logic, people in Denver have lower incidences of cancer?
Did this "low-level exposure" as studied happen to come solely from within the subject's thyroid? If not, isn't your position (which mirrors (M)Ann's BTW) a complete non sequitur? Can you see how suggesting such inane things during a nuclear crisis might be taken as an almost sociopathic lack of empathy by sane humans?
My position? Read again. Inane? Sociopathic? Get a grip! Panic much?
I've heard that radiation attracts bears too!
Maybe she is a mutant.
So stocks on Wall St. should jump at least a couple hundred points or so today............
Comon Tyler, stop being a spent pool half empty type of guy.
Brilliant!
This is my favorite quip in a long time. Well played sir!
Please excuse the triple tap.
This is my favorite quip in a long time. Well played sir!
I assume that the junk is for forgetting the sarc tag.
Mine was an accident, sorry.
Though NHK is reporting that it is now fully contained with no damage to your reputation. Carry on, BTFD.
You can actually unjunk.
Sweet, unjunked.
NHK is now reporting that the number of junks on the post in actuality, never rose beyond 1 uSV.
I shall now engage in Seppuku as a token of my shame.
The Nikkei is off the lows! How can we be so pessimistic look at the resiliency of that market!
and gold's at $1437.5 and rising. Yes! Get up there you beauty...
We should pause for a moment and try to reflect that 1500 is merely a point on the path to 2000...
and that 2000 is merely a moment on life's rich and entertaining trek to 3000...
and spare a mere moments silence for our dearly departed dollars.... and pounds...and euros....and yen(s)....and so on and so forth.
silver blew thru $37 like slewie ripping off blythe's moist little panties to get to the Silver Sliver of highly leveraged poon.
sry. i know! off-topic. again. hey! i'm only a rat!
she has a fabulous ass, too, btw.
Japan Explains Nuclear Problem to Japanese Kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXPN4dfBAGU
Insane but very Japanese like
Radiation: 163,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium-137 per kilogram of soil has been detected in Iitate Village, about 40 kilometers northwest of the plant.
163,000 becquerels of CS-137 (distance used is 1cm as your feet are in contact with it)
Gamma Emissions: .1245 mSvr/Hr (Gamma @ 1cm). 20mSv/week. 543 mSv in six months. 1.08 Sv/year (108 Rem)
Beta Emissions : 22 mrad/hour, 3696 mrads/ week, 96 Rads in six months. 200 RADS / year
Cesium-137 half life: 30 YEARS
Effects
0.25 – 1 Sv (250 – 1000 mSv): Some people feel nausea and loss of appetite; bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen damaged.
1 – 3 Sv (1000 – 3000 mSv): Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured.
Source: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/23_28.html
D@mn! Where are the giant seizure robots??
The whole island is a nucular nitemare.
Klaatu barada nikto!
+1 great reference! I thought it was Varadaa though. Eh who cares.
Veni, Vidi, Vici
You know that's Venusian for "Control, Alt, Delete!"
Fed delenda est.
Alea iacta est.
Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.
Look at me, I'm a journalist for the WSJ!
No. But you could likely rival GW in blog post content.
Sorry. That was an insult to elementary school children everywhere who have the ability to cut and paste.
I can tell when the Tylers get very tired because they allow all manner of regurgitated crap on the site.
Guys and gals, please look at dshort.com on occasion. There is original content there.
Still no numbers, though, at least not yet. I'm wondering just how severe the radiation is in the immediate vicinity where the firefighters are (or were) working. If it stays high or gets higher, they might not be able to get back close enough to continue their efforts.
Hoping a downward spiral of that nature does not ensue.
Friggen neutron beams...now I have heard everything!
Neutron beams...
Wikipedia: "Due to the high kinetic energy of neutrons, this radiation is considered to be the most severe and dangerous radiation available."
Free neutrons are captured by all sorts of other atoms, and frequently create additional radionuclides.
Containment vessel breached (cracked?). fission product of Uranium and/or Plutonium coming out. The candle is lit people.
Google "neutron beam". Lots of articles about university research labs using neutron beams to do things like take pictures of plastic pistols inside lead boxes and stuff. Can use neutron beams like xrays - except neutron beams can penetrate stuff that xrays can't.
A neutron beam?
That's bullish right? DOW +500 points.
Seriously bullish news
so what of that 1999 disaster??? just now talking about those beams?? Hitachi will surely say all these beams belong to them
Dude, Moonbase Alpha used the old, tired waste containment design. ICHH so BTFD
(It Can't Happen Here)
what exactly does a neutron beam do?
besides repel shape shifting aliens from space?
create shape shifting babies on earth?
The Tokoyo water supply is not too dangerous for infants. Parents advised to use bottled water...which means it's too dangerous for pregnant women and all children.
And whence does the bottled water come...?
good question....
13 million people...
(8) 12 oz bottles a day conservatively.....drink,cook,bathe,wash clothes
so like 100 million bottles a day
better question is what are you gonna do with all the empty bottles...
or is that the reactor endgame....bury reactor in plastic bottles that last for thousands of years in the environment
I heard in one community outside of Tokoyo (proper) the stores ran out of bottled water 20 min. after the announcement was made.
The beam of neutrons is obtained by drilling a hole in the side of a nuclear reactor. The energetic neutrons created in nuclear fission escape through the hole.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/410964/neutron-beam
Well I guess that means the containment vessel has been breached, right?
Or someone with a Black & Decker cordless tried to relieve the pressure within the reactor by way of some armature dental work on unit 2.
just a bit of spring cleaning... airing out the fission?
Well, it is the only unit that didn't explode.........a lot.
And didn't unit two have a problem with a stuck pressure relief valve at some point? We really have no idea what's going on and neither do "they". Based upon the direct quotes from "officials" there is a lot of half ass guessing going on over there.
With tongue just slightly in cheek, maybe it's time to bring in a clairvoyant or even a nuclear pressure vessel palm reader to give us a better view of the situation on the ground.
Wasn't there something about the Rx #2 suppression pool - a few days ago now - maybe involving an explosion down there, after which, there were concerns about it's integrity?
Yes. We were told there were several loud bangs and they thought maybe it was the torus.
maybe it's time to bring in a clairvoyant or even a nuclear pressure vessel palm reader...
Ezekiel 21:21 (American Standard Version)
21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
It's been done before...
Where is Commander Spock when you need him?
Only a Vulcan could withstand the radiation long enough to get the mains back online and escape....
Neutrons also degrade materials; bombardment of materials with neutrons creates collision cascades that can produce point defects and dislocations in the materials. At high neutron fluences this can lead to embrittlement of metals and other materials, and to swelling of some of them. This poses a problem for nuclear reactor vessels, and significantly limits their lifetime (which can be somewhat prolonged by controlled annealing of the vessel, reducing the number of the built-up dislocations).
I thought nobody ever deployed a N-Bomb. Well, Japan is first. Again.....
Nah, Kramer dropped the N-bomb and it was a disaster.
pods
And, remember the interview with the guy who worked on the #4 reactor vessel for Hitachi, and said that it was badly damaged during the kilning process to smooth out the dislocations from the welding process. If this vessel were possibly flawed in the same way, the dislocations will pile up faster than you can say "I need SPF 1,000,000!"
Anything like a blue dart?
Hole in the side of the reactor, and the SCRAM apparently wasn't 100% successful. Oy veh.
Repel? My memo says it summons them!
Apparently neutron beams are normally produced by drilling a hole in a nuclear reactor. In this case the holes weren't drilled but happened "naturally".
Destabilizes non-radioactive isotopes in the general area making pretty much everything in its path radioactive (for some number of half-lives).
Eventually the neutrons are captured, forming (potentially radioactive) isotopes in the materials irradiated by the 'beam'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation_product
Neutron beams...
...smells like a mass->energy fail.
I'm now wondering what could be worse - a short, sharp criticality event, followed by concrete etc., or a long, drawn out intermittent neutron beam & radioactive smoke party which nothing living can approach for unknown spans of time....
haiku:
*
white people
crazy
and now look
**
+1
ORI
hmmm... I always thought a Haiku was 5-7-5 syllables. Was I taught by ignorant white people?
Neutrons are beaming
Godzilla awakening
Snowflakes are falling
Japan Bear or Bull
Meltdown Melt Up Imminent
Tyler is watching
The neutron beam sliced
Atlantis, Pompeii, Japan
Abandon all hope
co-valent crackling
neutron Fukushima smiles
the black swan gave birth
smiles...
I've wondered about this word in the past. Even though it's a silent "e", it still seems to represent 2 syllables.
Perhaps "neutron Fukushima glows" as in so very proud of herself and her newly born offspring.
Just a thought.
You make a good point. Some would argue that 'smiles' when properly pronounced is 2 syllables anyway.
How about 'beams'? As in a beaming smile and double entendre as well?
co-valent crackling
neutron Fukushima beams
the black swan gave birth
Our american lexicon is partially informed by the blues and black culture. Hence, many of us pronounce the word 'smiles' as something more approximating the word 'smalls'.
A very interesting, and eye-opening point.
Thank you.
There once was a country named Nippon
Whose radwaste they couldn't quite grip on
The bosses all lied
And the mommies all cried
But it's news turds can buy the damn dip on
Stellar performance, sir.
The market is being force fed dollars and yen regardless of what is happening in Fukushima.
as long a there are more FRN's on the planet than neutrons in the death ray, we'll be OK. I've got a bad feeling about all this.
Mmmm...radioactive FRNs.
I'm just burning doin' the neutron dance...
Great, so now the waters surrounding the area have sharks with frickin' neutron beams on their heads.
is all this part of Sheen's road tour??
It's really incredible that the MSM has stopped really covering this.
they are too busy scoffing at the new oil slick... I mean river sheen..
Nononono, it was river phoenix. It's charlie sheen!
yeah and the phoenix is rising in the eastern reactors
Libya...Japan...Gaza...the Fed...inflation...gasoline prices...Liz Taylor will trump all news stories from now, until her funeral. The Herd's attention must be diverted.
Cover reactors 2 and 3 with Liz' breasts!
BUT the MSM IS covering it!
Baby dolphin saved after dumped in rice field by tsunami - Reuters
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110323/lf_nm_life/us_japan_dolphin
So far, risk low from radiation in food in Japan -AP
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110322/ap_on_he_me/us_med_healthbeat_radiation_food_q_a
Coverage you can count on, all the news deemed fit to report.
For cryin' out loud - Liz Taylor is dead. That's certainly worthy of some news space. Anyhow, I've been reading about Japan for weeks. I have nuclear meltdown fatigue. A dead Liz Taylor is a welcome break.
earthquaking and shaking
nuclear nightmare
what have we done?
Is it now the start
of something proficized
many years ago
praise be profit jimijon. may his shorts catch fire and his particles shower neutrons forever.
Yeah, sorry guys, that might have been the curry...
"kind of radioactive ray"
"Ray" is a bit of a misnomer. A neutron is a particle - an item with mass and energy, whereas "ray" is a term more suited for gamma radiation (photon), a bundle of energy with no mass. The term "beam" is appropriate as it describes a stream of particles, as in an electron beam (used in CRT's).
"But the measured neutron beam may be evidence that uranium and plutonium leaked from the plant's nuclear reactors and spent nuclear fuels have discharged a small amount of neutron beams through nuclear fission."
This is a plausible explanation, as is the fact that many radioactive isotopes also undergo neutron emission decay. Such materials are used for source neutrons to start a totally new fuel load and to provide baseline indication on reactor power instrumentation. It all depends on the duration, strength and energy levels of the neutron beams they detected. Another misstatement is that the fuel had to be leaked in order for the neutrons to be detected. That is not the case. Fissions occurring within intact fuel cladding will emit detectable neutrons. What this could be indicative is that they are penetrating the bio-shield portion of the primary containment. That is a not-so-good scenario.
I am not trying to downplay the seriousness of this situation, but a lot of speculation and a dearth of facts can lead to needless panic.
Of course, panic helps sell in some cases. Look how empty store shelves get when there is a threat of severe weather.
For a minute I thought I was a lone voice of reason and an understanding of physics. Great post!
I was trying to talk sanity yesterday, and quite a few people didn't want to hear it:
http://freedomofoceania.blogspot.com/
Apparently you cannot have an alternate view here without being junked. A lot of these folks here need to be convinced that their own vision of ultimate doom is the only true one.
OK, let's try a new tack here, and see if it collects as many junks...
Those neutrons are probably going to go airborne and float around the earth and poison all humans and lead to toxic deposits everywhere (wormwood). The new oil spill in the GOM will probably react with these energetic neutrons and burst into flames. It is just as written in Revelations. The end is not near, it is here... and now.
Just stick to the facts.
Pray that the end comes neatly and quickly, like in revelations.
Just as an thought excercise, imagine the best case and worst case for how soon this neutron prolapse will be cool. 4 weeks? Now imagine the worst case 1 year? Look at what has accumulated in only two weeks.
soil in a nearby village is 500mSv/hr. get up into the 2-5 Sv/hr range and you've got what's known as a "dead zone". Is that real enough? Do the world a favor and don't undershoot on the seriousness of this.
"Do the world a favor and don't undershoot on the seriousness of this."
Trust me, I'm not. I do try to point out inconsistencies of terminology in these news reports. Let's say you are a doctor, and you are reading a report issued by the AMA, and the terminology is wrong, and many of the presumptions presented are not plausible. Do you put any faith in that article now? That is what I am trying to get across here. A lot of what is being presented here and in the news is nothing more than conjecture, or worse.
I work in the field - I know how bad this can get. I have a real appreciation of what the operators must be going through over there. All of my co-workers are just as worried. I just wish that they would use mR vs. Sieverts though. I hate having to convert stuff.
Pray that the end comes neatly and quickly, like in revelations...
The revelation of John describes an event of far more seriousness and dread than what's being discussed here today.
The vision he recorded was at one time both exceptionally personal and truly "universal", (vs. "global") in it's scope.
I continue to frequent and lurk on ZH because I believe the foundational truth that on a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
And what's so funny is it remains the absolute truth whether I or anybody else ever believes it.
I still chuckle about the comment about Barney Frank being safe and re-electable until he dies. But history will show in 150 years he will have been dead for far longer than he was safe.
In the past, I've spent months listening to John's revelation on CD in my commutes, averaging 3 and a half times a day, and it never gets old. Kinda like "Dark Side of the Moon" as a kid, only more powerful.
"The revelation of John describes an event of far more seriousness and dread than what's being discussed here today."
Not only much worse, but there is no "neat and quick" about it.
You listen to the Book of Revelation 3 times per day?
Why not just drop 90 hits of acid?
It'll fuck you up just as bad, and much more efficiently.
I see a lock-down ward in your future.
LOL ... fiction is not your strong suit but thanks for the effort with '... neutrons are probably going to go airborne and float around the earth ... ' bit.
BTW, I do appreciate your posts here.
Yes, the combination of heat and fission product radiation has acted in such a way that it has created a new master particle. This master particle is radioactive and networks between all other radioactive particles through a sympathetic subatomic network. At exactly 1800 hours EST TODAY all the nuclear weapons in the entire world will synchronously detonate, all the nuclear reactors in service will launch like Saturn V rockets into the sky exploding like atomic fireworks in the ionosphere.
The resulting radiation will cause mass mutations in livestock around the world to give them super brains and articulated digits (hands). There will be a mass war started by atomic cows and sheep to exterminate human kind. Cats and dogs will start sleeping together. A month later, the moon will explode. Two months after that the sun will burn out. It will make us look back on the good old days with fond memories when we all huddled in our doom bunkers from the re-entry and resultant radioactive fallout from several russian nuclear reactors into the atmosphere.... oh.. wait.. you didn't huddle in a doom bunker playing cards, eating 3 year old cans of pork and beans... Well the reactor powered sattelites sure did re-enter the atmosphere and burn up. Didn't notice huh?... yup. That's what I thought:
There were five launch, and reentry failures involving Soviet or Russian spacecraft which were carrying nuclear reactors rather than RTGs between 1973 and 1993 (see RORSAT).
Gotta love the Soviet design principles!
You say death beam, I say death ray. Let's not let semanics be a distraction.
TEPCO and the Japanese gov't can hope for the best... but they must prepare for the worst.
Anything less and they could end up on trial for crimes against humanity. This rock isn't that big. A few months of this Ce137 fountain, and it will be detectable in every corner of this puppy. All the fish, animals, bodies of water, all of it.
Out Of Control, a haiku...
Can start but can't stop
Corium gadolinium
Soon we all learn more.
Buy the dip (on uranium stocks) bitchez!
In light of current situations; does anyone see new legs growing on the Rough Rice trade?
http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=ZR&p=w1
My sincere apologies for being so rhetorical so early in the morning.
Is it really that bad to ask rhetorical questions?
( And ... Fed delenda est. )
..I love the smell of empty rhetoric in the morning, it smells like TEPCO..
that's ok, JJ. we know how that rhetoric builds as you rub yer magic lamp so the genie will pop out. no problemo, sister. we're somewhat liberal in the sense that anyone who dresses like a nun can act like a nun if s/he wishes. duh.
plus, you are so "self-effacing" abt yer genie and yer wishes, that we are learning that morning wood may be a hitherto-unreported trans-gender phenomenon, or phenomena, depending on how many wishes that knobby li'l genie is good for...
Neutron Beam? ....Isn't that just a radioactive rainbow?
Sure, as long as your rainbow only includes the color blue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident#Blue_glow
From my posting yesterday, at the rate of temperature increase of .3 to 1 degree C/s, we can safely assume without proper cooling fluids, it is just a matter of time before this whole incident blows up in their faces. Even if we use the lower end we are talking about a 30 degree climb per hour, even if they are getting some seawater in these things and it stays there.
So roughly 12-24 hrs from now we should be looking at temps that will start melting the alloys of the containment vessel.
Then the SHTF....................
This site has so many ways to blow/melt down, and they are all in play. Yes, just a matter of time. The Japanese have many admirable qualities. They don't deserve this, but their leadership does.