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 situation continues to worsen. First, my friend Mike Levi wrote an excellent blog post about …
FEPC Info Sheet 3/29
by | 2011-03-30 | 7 Comments
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?
by | 2011-03-29 | 49 Comments
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 gone critical, even if for a short period of time. The possibilty of localized criticalities …
Expansion and Contraction
by | 2011-03-29 | 3 Comments
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 safer future for the other. Progress in this field – whether you are for treaties, …
