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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…
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…
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 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.
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…
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…
TEPCO has released another information update. Three workers were exposed to a doses exceeding 170 mSv. From a wonky perspective, the SDF is releasing “thermographs” of the reactors — infrared images that show the heat from the reactor vessels and…
TEPCO turned on the lights in the control room at Unit 1. I imagine this is a little like turning on the lights Saturday morning after a very large party that turned ugly. It has to be the same sinking…
James Acton, our good friend and erstwhile colleague here on the blog, has published a new Adelphi Paper (aka a book), Deterrence During Disarmament. James received two awfully fine blurbs: “Ronald Reagan’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons remains…
Your daily update on Fukushima, with the full-text below the jump. I have been collecting, thanks to an eagle eyed reader, some of the images of the spent fuel ponds. I will try to get to it later today. I…
