Hiroko Tabuchi, David Jolly and Kevin Drew report in the New York Times that the Unit 2 cooling pond “was spewing steam late Tuesday, forcing workers to divert their attention to dousing the reactor building with water.” The FEPC statement yesterday said they saw steam on Monday, but the statement today (full-text below the jump) …
Radiation Doses
by | 2011-03-22 | 20 Comments
I’ve been struggling with how to express the risk from radiation doses without sounding like either a fear-mongering lunatic (“You will die from a slow and painful cancer!”) or some nuclear-industry hack (“Really, it’s no worse than smoking a cigarette in Denver while getting a chest CT scan!”). The key concepts have to do with …
Libya’s Lessons for North Korea
by | 2011-03-21 | 31 Comments
Hey, remember when Bush Administration officials tried to convince Kim Jong Il that he could get the same denuclearization deal Bush gave Qadhafi? Yeah, the last couple of days might explain why Kim didn’t think it was such a great idea. Update | 11:25 am 22 March 2011 Apparently the DPRK is drawing the same …
FEPC Statement 3/21
by | 2011-03-21 | 11 Comments
Here is your daily information sheet from FEPC. Another fire at Unit 3. That’s not encouraging. TEPCO is in the process of turning on the lights. Once power is restored, we’ll have some idea whether TEPCO can get this under control or whether we are heading toward entombment. The New York Times has a pair …
