In an excellent essay written for The Oil Drum, Rutledge put this research into perspective.

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They were posted in a really excellent technical analysis of the Fukushima disaster on The Oil Drum site.

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Debris was tangled in the median's crossover barriers, including huge pieces of sheet metal, tree limbs and a giant oil drum.

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Katz, bald, bull-necked, with a build like an oil drum.

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With a body like an oil drum, and a retinue of gunmen around him, he prowls the streets of Kabul looking less like a banker than like a footballer lost in a war zone.

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Mobile Fluid Recovery then used a massive high-speed drum to spin out all the absorbed oil and waste water from the booms.

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