FEPC Statement on Fukushima
Am pleased to be back in the US, safe and sound with my family. (Note to reporters: Stop sounding disappointed; it pisses me off.) The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC) — which arranged for my trip —…
Jeffrey Lewis
Update from Tokyo
Ok, so that earthquake joke I made the other day is no longer funny. Apparently, those quakes were just the warm-up act for the massive 8.9 behemoth that struck us today. I was just exiting the Tokyo subway when it…
Rokkasho Visit
Greetings from the land of the earthquake! Yesterday’s visit to Rokkasho was earth-shaking – literally. Well, the earth did shake, although I know correlation is not causation. During lunch at the Rokkasho site, we felt an earthquake. Then another large…
Off to Japan
I am going to be traveling through Japan this coming week on a hectic schedule visiting a variety of Japanese facilities including Rokkasho and Japan Steel Works. Posting has been light anyway, but this week I have an excuse.
Hong Kong as Transshipment Point
Irene Jay Liu has a really interesting article in the South China Morning Post on Hong Kong’s role as a transshipment point (subscription only, I am afraid). The whole article is worth reading, but I really got a kick out…
Bushehr Cooling Pump
After the IAEA DG report on Iran noted that the Iranians were unloading the fuel from Bushehr, Bill Broad and David Sanger provided several column inches of speculation about whether STUXNET had struck again. Now, Bill Broad reports that ROSATOM…
GOV/2011/7 & GOV/2011/8
It was a long day — I was giving a talk! In any event, everyone and their grandmothers have copies of the IAEA Director-General’s Reports on Iran and Syria. But here they are anyway.
Greetings from Las Vegas
Greetings from Las Vegas, where I am attending a meeting of the CSCAP WMD Study Group. Man, this city is soul-destroying. John Warden observed that you lose all sense of time and the value of money. He’s right. The discussions…
Big ‘Toping
I just don’t know what to say. The Onion is sheer genius.
Extended Deterrence
The next couple of weeks are all extended deterrence for me — I am teaching a course on the subject in Monterey, focusing on the decision to retire the TLAM-N as a case study, and making some remarks at another…