FEPC Info Sheet 3/31
Busy day today; full text after the jump.
March 2011
41 posts
Pyroprocessing is Reprocessing
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…
FEPC Info Sheet 3/30
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…
FEPC Info Sheet 3/29
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.
Localized Criticalities at Fukushima?
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…
Expansion and Contraction
Hawks and Doves, like practicing Buddhists, experience expansion and contraction. Both phenomena are most evident after treaty debates. Usually, but not always, the winners feel expansion and the losers feel contraction. Failure for one camp is the pathway to a…
FEPC Info Sheet 3/28
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…
TEPCO Info Update 3/25
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.
Happy Hour On Tuesday
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…
FEPC Info Sheet 3/25
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…