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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Career Counseling
Once a year or so, I devote a blog post to career counseling. Aspiring wonks: this one’s for you. Those who have already been through this drill, feel free to weigh in. The best reason to pursue a career in…
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…
Is Mrs. Merkel Irrational?
On Monday morning March 28, I appeared at the opening panel discussion at the 2011 Carnegie Nuclear Policy Conference, to discuss “Implications of Japan’s Nuclear Disaster,” together with two colleagues, Eli Levite, ex of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, and former…
FEPC Info Sheet 4/1
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.
FEPC Info Sheet 3/31
Busy day today; full text after the jump.
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…