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Greetings from foggy Monterey! I was traveling yesterday (and managed to irretrievably lose my iPhone), so I didn’t get around to posting the daily information sheet from FEP on the situation at Fukushima. Full-text after the jump.
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For those of you who follow South Korea’s interest in pyroprocessing spent nuclear fuel (or “recycling used fuel” as proponents are apt to say) Dick Stratford made an unusually straightforward comment at the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference that pyroprocessing…
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Below the jump, please find today’s FEPC info sheet. I wanted to pass along two other items of interest, which perhaps ought to inform the stories we are going to start seeing over the next couple of days as the…
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I was too busy yesterday to post the FEPC information sheet. Here it is, belatedly, with the disturbing news that now we have plutonium in the soil, which indicates a containment breach.
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My colleague at MIIS, Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress has written a paper, What Was The Cause Of The High Cl-38 Radioactivity In The Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1. Ferenc concludes that we cannot exclude the possibility that little pockets of melted fuel have…
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Greetings from the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference aka Nukestock. We had an oddly bloodless discussion this morning of the unfolding events at Fukushima. One thing that struck me about the panel, with perhaps Mark Hibbs excepted, was the gap…
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TEPCO ponders the source of the Iodine-131 and concludes it is probably from reactor 3. Apropos of our discussions earlier today and yesterday. Full-text after the jump.
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Hey everyone in Washington for the Carnegie Nonproliferation Conference, I mean the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. How about I just f’ing call it Nuke-stock, like everyone else? Jill and I are going to meet folks for Happy Hour on…
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Yesterday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu pointed to Unit 2 as the most likely vessel to be breached. I note that the TEPCO spent some time injecting freshwater into Unit 2. which suggests they may be worried about salt accumulation, which…
