Arms Control Wonk

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 feeling as the scale and consequences of the preceding events slowly dawn on you.  Except …

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 a valid and ever more urgent goal. James Acton has analysed and rebutted the arguments …

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 am also including a picture of the type of concrete-pumping truck, manufactured by Putzmeister.  (The …

TEPCO has released a statement on water spraying operations — apparently they are using a cement spraying pumping truck.  I had no idea such a thing existed.