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Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026 · 2,079 posts

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FEPC Info Sheets 4/15-4/20

Here are the information sheets from our friends at FEPC from 4/15, 4/18, 4/19 and 4/20. On a related note, TEPCO has walked back the estimate of Cl-38 on which Ferenc Dalnoki based his paper, What Was The Cause Of…

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FEPC Info Sheet 4/14

Your daily information sheet sheet from our friends at FEPC.

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FEPC Info Sheet 4/13

We have some interesting comments on yesterday’s thread about the wonders of the INES.  I wonder Fukushima results in a fundamental reform of the scale, with the IAEA taking on a role in vetting how states rank their nuclear disasters.…

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FEPC Info Sheets 4/11, 4/12

The Japanese government is conducting selective evacuations of areas outside the 20 km evacuation zone and has upgraded the accident to a 7 on the INES scale. Thoughts on those two events, along with your daily information sheet from our…

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FEPC Info Sheet 4/8

Well, it looks like TEPCO may have turned a corner at Fukushima.  Ralph Vartabedian, who is one of the better  reporters on technical issues, writes in the Los Angeles Times that Administration officials on background have said that radiation levels…

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Mongolian SNF Depot

During the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference, a senior State Department official revealed discussions between the United States and Mongolia on a 123 Agreement for nuclear cooperation. It was a thing of beauty to behold — a well-aimed indiscretion by…

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FEPC Info Sheet 4/7

Do other people find these information sheets useful?  I am debating about whether to keep posting them. My fascination with the events unfolding at Fukushima is slowly giving way to the fact that I still have a day job that…

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FEPC Info Sheet 4/6

Ben Quinn in the Guardian reports that TEPCO has stopped the leak of radioactive seawater. Today’s FEPC info sheet indicates that TEPCO is installing some sort of silt barrier to contain the leakage of radioactive water.  Cryptome has some really…

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FEPC Info Sheet 4/5

I have nothing clever to say.  The full-text of the latest FEPC Info Sheet is after the jump.

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FEPC Info Sheet 4/3

The current problem of the moment at Fukushima is the amount of water with high levels of radioiodine flowing into the ocean from Unit 2. TEPCO tried to stop up the leak with a mixture of “polymer absorber, sawdust, and…