Avatar photoIs 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 NRC Chairman Dick Meserve; Vallumpadugai Arunachalam of the Center for Study of Science, Technology, and …

Avatar photoFEPC 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.

Avatar photoFEPC Info Sheet 3/31

Busy day today; full text after the jump.

Avatar photoPyroprocessing 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 is reprocessing.