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, …
FEPC Info Sheet 3/28
by | 2011-03-28 | 23 Comments
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 in perception between nuclear industry and the public at large. The panel seemed to view …
TEPCO Info Update 3/25
by | 2011-03-25 | 31 Comments
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.
